SEOUL, April 22 (Korea Bizwire) — The density of carbon dioxide caused by human activities plunged in Seoul’s downtown areas due to the enforcement of social distancing to prevent the spread of COVID-19, a study showed Thursday. A joint research group from the National Institute of Environmental Research, the National Institute of Forest Science, the [...]
JEJU, April 18 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s southern resort island of Jeju is on track to allow the sales of battery packs in used electric vehicles (EVs). On Friday, the Jeju Special Self-Governing Provincial Government issued an advance notice on a partial revision of the “EV battery return and processing ordinance.” Under the revision, [...]
JEJU, April 13 (Korea Bizwire) — The Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy and the Jeju Special Self-Governing Province jointly announced on Tuesday a basic plan to invigorate distributed energy, as well as to speed up the establishment of related infrastructure and the cultivation of new industries in the southern resort island of Jeju. Distributed [...]
SEOUL, April 13 (Korea Bizwire) — The Seoul Metropolitan Government said Tuesday it will operate “cooling road systems” to lower fine dust and road temperatures during the period from April to October. Designed to cool hot roads and reduce fine dust, the system consists of small square-shaped water spray devices installed in the centerline of [...]
SEOUL, March 31 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s public and private sectors will team up to develop a wireless charging infrastructure for electric trucks. The Ministry of Environment on Wednesday signed a business agreement with the Seoul Metropolitan Government, the Korea Automobile Environmental Association and e-commerce giant Coupang Inc. Under terms of the agreement, the [...]
SEOUL, March 27 (Korea Bizwire) — A total of 70 earthquakes with a magnitude of 2.0 or stronger were detected on the Korean Peninsula and its surrounding waters last year, a level similar to the yearly average over the past 20 years, the state weather agency said Sunday. The 2021 figure is up from 68 [...]
SEOUL, March 17 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea can create up to 2.26 million new jobs in fields of energy transition by 2050 if the country invests consistently in achieving its carbon neutrality policy goal, a U.S. think tank report showed Thursday. The report from the University of Massachusetts’ Political Economy Research Institute (PERI), commissioned [...]
SEOUL, March 15 (Korea Bizwire) — South Koreans ingest 16.3 microplastic particles on average per day while consuming food although level of consumption is not enough to arouse concern about health, a study has found. Microplastics are plastic particles with a size of less than 5 millimeters that are artificially manufactured or created through the [...]
SEOUL, March. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — Excessive waste has risen as a new issue at voting booths nationwide following the presidential election on Wednesday. A local waste disposal site near one of the voting booths in Gangseo District in Seoul was filled with disposable plastic gloves used at the voting booth. Plastic gloves were seen [...]
SEOUL, March 1 (Korea Bizwire) — The Korea Expressway Corp., which manages South Korea’s highways across the nation, announced that it had developed a standard mixture formula for concrete that can reduce carbon emissions. Low-carbon concrete is made by replacing 50 percent of the cement used in existing concrete with furnace slag powder, an industrial [...]