SEOUL, Aug. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — Japan has decided to release contaminated water from the crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant into the open sea that is one kilometer away from the plant, Japanese media outlets reported Wednesday. The contaminated water contains tritium, a radioactive substance. Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc., the operator of the [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — The government plans to increase the distribution of electric and hydrogen-powered taxis to 100,000 units by 2025. To this end, it intends to establish a collaborative venture with municipal governments and related industries. The Ministry of Environment on Tuesday formed a business agreement with the Seoul Metropolitan Government, the [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — Close to two thirds of renewable energy companies in South Korea are skeptical about the government’s plan to raise the ratio of renewable energy supply to 20 percent of total power output by the year 2030. According to a survey conducted by the Korea Chamber of Commerce and Industry [...]
BUSAN, Aug. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — July’s average sea surface temperature in the waters between South Korea and Japan reached the highest level in 40 years, a think tank said Tuesday, calling for countermeasures against ocean subtropicalization. According to the Korea Institute of Ocean Science and Technology, the East Sea’s average sea surface temperature was [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — Municipal governments are taking the initiative to promote the recycling of ice packs, which are piling up at homes across the country amid a surge in demand for delivery services resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic. Gel-type ice packs consist of fine plastics. When discarded improperly, they could cause environmental [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — The state-run utility Korea East-West Power Co. announced that together with a local company, it had succeeded in developing road surface block-type solar power generation technology for the first time in South Korea. This technology enables the production of electricity by installing solar power generation blocks in various road [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — Lotte Chemical Co., a petrochemical unit of Lotte Group, said Monday that it had developed an eco-friendly packaging material by recycling waste plastic, and had started making use of it for the packaging of its products. The company developed post-consumer recycled polyethylene (PCR-PE) by collecting waste packaging materials made [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 5 (Korea Bizwire) – The size of high temperature areas in South Korea has more than doubled over the past nine years, international environmental organization Greenpeace said Thursday, calling for efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Greenhouse defines any land locations where the average midday surface temperature exceeds 30 C in August as [...]
SEOUL, July 30 (Korea Bizwire) – With a searing heat wave scorching South Korea for nearly two weeks, heat damage to agricultural, livestock and fish farmers has been snowballing nationwide, officials said Friday. Seoul and almost all parts of the country have been gripped by a prolonged heat wave that sent daytime highs above 35 [...]
SEOUL, July 29 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s first integrated analysis system for the assessment of various factors that bring about an increase in the density of carbon dioxide (CO2) in the atmosphere over the Korean Peninsula has been developed. A research team from the Seoul National University’s Graduate School of Environmental Studies said Wednesday [...]