SEOUL, Oct. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — Temperatures in Seoul sharply dropped to nearly 1 degree Celsius on Sunday, marking the coldest morning for mid-October in 64 years, the state weather agency said. The morning low in Seoul came to 1.3 C in the day, the lowest since Oct. 19, 1957, when the figure was minus [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — Last month’s ultrafine dust density was the lowest since record keeping began in 2015, a government agency said Thursday, citing reduced dust emissions and favorable weather conditions. The average PM 2.5 reading across the country was 8 micrograms per cubic meter in September, the state-run National Institute of Environmental [...]
DAEJEON, Oct. 1 (Korea Bizwire) — Urban areas with more green spaces have a lower level of microplastics, research showed Thursday. A joint research team consisting of the National Institute of Forest Science, Seoul National University and anti-pests company Cesco, analyzed the quantity and composition of microplastics (diameter of higher than 20 micrometers, equivalent to the [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — The members of K-pop supergroup BTS wore garments from a Korean eco-friendly fashion brand during their recent video performance at the UN headquarters. The septet wore suits by RE;CODE, an eco-friendly fashion brand run by South Korean company Kolon Industries FnC when they gave a speech at the opening of the Sustainable [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s statistics agency said Tuesday it has launched the English service of the data platform on the country’s progress in achieving U.N. Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The SDGs data platform will help international users understand South Korea’s efforts to meet the SDGs on a real-time basis, and have [...]
SINAN, Sept. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — Sinan County in South Jeolla Province is stepping up to preserve its mudflats, which are inscribed as a UNESCO world natural heritage. A new project will begin where residents of Hanbal Village in Docho Island will replace synthetic detergents with eco-friendly microorganisms to raise the quality of a local [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — Plogging is rising as a new trend among members of the “MZ generation,” a Korean term referring to millennials and Generation Z, to protect the environment. The term ‘plogging’ is a combination of the terms ‘jogging’ and ‘plocka upp,’ Swedish for picking up grain. It refers to the act [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — Three out of ten South Korean consumers take a company’s record on the environment into consideration when making purchasing decisions. KB Financial Group Inc., a major South Korean banking group, conducted a survey of 1,000 credit card users, 31.6 percent of whom said that their purchasing decisions were influenced [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — The environment ministry said Thursday it has forged agreements with water bottling companies across the country to supply label-free water products to local government offices and transportation service providers. The deals call on nationwide water companies to provide label-free water products to six metropolitan city government offices and 22 [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 1 (Korea Bizwire) — An international environmental group gave a low score to the South Korean food industry’s efforts in dealing with plastic. The Seoul branch of Greenpeace published a report on Tuesday that analyzed the efforts of the country’s five major food companies — CJ Cheiljedang Corp., Lotte Chilsung Beverage Co., Ottogi [...]