SEOUL, April 28 (Korea Bizwire) — A ‘blue hydrogen’ production facility has been established in the southeastern city of Changwon, the first of its kind in South Korea. Blue hydrogen is produced from natural gas, but emissions are eliminated by capturing and storing the emitted carbon. The Ministry of Environment and the Changwon city government [...]
SEOUL, April 28 (Korea Bizwire) — Targets for biogas production have been set for municipal and business entities that generate a certain amount of organic waste. The Ministry of Environment announced on Thursday that it will issue an advance notice of legislation for the lower statutes of the Biogas Act by June 9. The statutes [...]
SEOUL, April 27 (Korea Bizwire) — The Seoul Metropolitan Government on Wednesday announced a pilot project to promote the chemical recycling of waste hanging banners in partnership with chemical firm SK Geocentric Co. The initiative involves removing strings and poles from discarded banners and sending them to SK Geocentric to determine if they can be [...]
ULSAN, April 24 (Korea Bizwire) — The southeastern coastal city of Ulsan is setting up artificial bass spawning grounds around Samho Island in the Taehwa River to eradicate the bass, a fish species that has been invasive to the local ecosystem. The bass eggs found in the artificial spawning grounds will be removed by city [...]
BUSAN, April 24 (Korea Bizwire) — Busan, South Korea’s second-largest city, is set to make the nation’s first attempt to measure the density of pollutants in the atmosphere by installing sensors on city buses. The Busan metropolitan government said Sunday that mobile atmospheric control systems have been installed on 54 city buses, and a pilot [...]
SEOUL, April 19 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s first government report on how the country is adjusting to climate change was released on Tuesday by the Ministry of Environment. The report stated that the speed of global warming in the country is quicker than the world average. According to the report, the temperature in South [...]
SEOUL, April 18 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean imports of Japanese seafood swelled nearly 21 percent in the first quarter of 2023 despite concerns over Tokyo’s planned release of contaminated water from its crippled nuclear power plant, government data showed Tuesday. Seoul imported US$48.6 million worth of fishery products from the neighboring country in the [...]
SEOUL, April 12 (Korea Bizwire) — The Seoul Metropolitan Government has partnered with a group of domestic petrochemical companies to conduct a pilot project that recycles plastic waste using thermal pyrolysis technology. The city government on Tuesday signed a business agreement with GS Caltex Corp., HD Hyundai Oilbank Co., LG Chem Ltd. and SK Geocentric [...]
SEOUL, April 11 (Korea Bizwire) — Lotte Department Store said Monday it will host this year’s first plogging event, which combines jogging and picking up trash, in the neighborhood of Gyeonghui Palace in central Seoul. The department store chain operator will install a booth at the entrance of the palace for three days starting from [...]
SEOUL, April 10 (Korea Bizwire) – The Seoul metropolitan government on Monday opened a general hospital dedicated to treating pet plants inside the Seoul Agricultural Technology Center. The new institution provides an expert prescription of ill plants by diagnosing the health condition of the plant. Severely ill plants will be hospitalized for a three-month concentrated [...]