SEOUL, April 30 (Korea Bizwire) — Unseasonal snowfall blanketed mountainous areas of Gangwon Province, east of Seoul, on Friday, the last day of April usually known in South Korea as a season of early summer-like warm weather. Late-night rain turned into snow in the Gangwon mountains 1,300 meters above sea level early Friday morning, with [...]
SEOUL, April 29 (Korea Bizwire) — Despite the growing popularity of hydrogen vehicles, the charging infrastructure still remains poor in South Korea, industry data showed Wednesday. South Korea accounts for 33 percent or 37,400 in the total number of hydrogen fuel cell cars on the road worldwide, according to the Korea Automobile Manufacturers Association (KAMA). [...]
SEOUL, April 27 (Korea Bizwire) — The supply of low-priced by-product hydrogen will begin in earnest this year for use in transport. On Monday, the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy, the South Chungcheong provincial government and the Dangjin city government held a completion ceremony for a new hydrogen supply and shipment center for hydrogen [...]
BUSAN, April 27 (Korea Bizwire) — Busan, South Korea’s second-largest city on the southern coast, plans to encourage the development of small-scale forests in downtown areas to improve the urban environment as well as to prevent fine dust from flowing into residential areas. The Busan metropolitan government announced plans to develop a total of eight [...]
SEOUL, April 26 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s leading steelmaker POSCO has embarked on a project to restore deforested areas through partnerships with a string of domestic and international companies. On Saturday, POSCO held a tree planting event in Pyeongchang County, Gangwon Province along with Australian mining giant BHP Group Ltd. and local social enterprise [...]
SEOUL, April 23 (Korea Bizwire) – In celebration of Earth Day, retailers and other South Korean firms joined efforts on Thursday to save the environment. Homeplus Co., a hypermarket chain operator, has vowed to introduce eco-friendly materials that replace plastic materials used for its private-label (PB) products. It also released label-free bottled water. The shopping [...]
SEOUL, April 23 (Korea Bizwire) — The Ministry of Oceans and Fisheries announced on Thursday that it will launch a project this year to eradicate the polyps of Aurelia aurita, a species is destabilizing the marine ecosystem and interfering with the fishing industry. The project will be implemented at the port of Jeongok in Gyeonggi [...]
SEOUL, April 22 (Korea Bizwire) — The state-run Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute said Wednesday that it has developed a new technology that analyses radioactive particles in fine dust and uses them to track down the source of the contaminant. The new technology places a marker to measure the changes in radioactive levels inside fine [...]
SEOUL, April 13 (Korea Bizwire) — A group of scientists said Tuesday that Ieodo, a submerged rock south of Jeju Island, was created more than 2.24 million years ago through a volcanic eruption, marking the first time for the detailed origin of the rock to be revealed. Scientists were able to trace the origin of [...]
SEOUL, April 12 (Korea Bizwire) — Fine dust emissions from coal plants more than halved over the past four-month period compared with two years earlier, data showed Monday, after the country limited their operations during the winter. Local coal plants generated 3,191 tons of fine dust from December last year to March 2021, sharply down [...]