SEOUL, May 29 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea established a presidential committee Saturday to serve as the control tower of the nation’s carbon neutrality drive. President Moon Jae-in said the government-private panel would be a “pivot” in uniting national efforts to achieve net-zero emissions by 2050. He admitted that it would not be easy for [...]
SEOUL, May 13 (Korea Bizwire) — Over a dozen Swedish companies doing business in South Korea launched a “green” alliance Thursday to commit themselves to a set of carbon-reducing goals in support of Seoul’s green policy drive. The South Korea-Sweden Green Transition Alliance brings together 13 Swedish companies, including furniture giant IKEA, to take part [...]
SEOUL, May 13 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean fiber manufacturer Hyosung TNC Co. has teamed up with a municipal government to release a new nylon textile made of abandoned fishing nets. The company signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the Busan metropolitan government and a social venture Netspa on Wednesday to produce eco-friendly textile [...]
DAEJEON, May 11 (Korea Bizwire) — A South Korean research team has succeeded in developing and demonstrating a carbon neutral model for buildings and cities using an urban-type energy sharing platform technology. The Korea Institute of Energy Research said Monday that it had developed and demonstrated Plus Energy Community Platform technology for the realization of [...]
SEOUL, May 7 (Korea Bizwire) — A yellow dust storm that originated in the Gobi Desert in northern China and Mongolia on Friday blanketed most of South Korea, including the greater Seoul area, the state weather agency said. A fine dust advisory, issued for Seoul at 1 p.m., was upgraded to a fine dust warning [...]
SEOUL, May 7 (Korea Bizwire) — A group of South Korean companies have joined forces to extract plastic and aluminum compound materials from beverage cartons and promote 100 percent recycling. SK Global Chemical Co., a chemical affiliate of energy giant SK Innovation Co., signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) on Thursday with Maeil Dairies Co., [...]
CHANGWON, May 6 (Korea Bizwire) — The southeastern city of Changwon, South Gyeongsang Province is rising as a platform to develop South Korea’s high-altitude wind power technology, the newest addition to a series of renewable energy sources. The Korea Electrotechnology Research Institute, state-run utility Korea Electric Power Corp., and the municipality of Changwon recently held [...]
SEOUL, May 6 (Korea Bizwire) — The higher the age, income and educational level, the higher the probability that an individual would engage in eco-friendly activities, including energy-saving behaviors, a study showed Wednesday. According to a thesis released by the state-run Korea Environment Institute, older people tend to have stronger interest in the environment and [...]
SEOUL, May 5 (Korea Bizwire) — With South Korea’s retail industry actively promoting eco-friendly policies, the number of local consumers who are attempting to reduce the use of disposable items is also on the rise. For the January to April period of this year, the hypermarket chain Lotte Mart saw sales of single-use cups and [...]
SEOUL, May 2 (Korea Bizwire) — Human-caused climate change has brought about extensive meteorological changes on the Korean Peninsula over the past century, making summers longer and winters hotter and shorter and increasing the frequency of extreme weather events, such as heat waves and heavy downpours, a report said Sunday. The report from the Korea [...]