SEOUL, Jan. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — If greenhouse gases are continuously emitted at the current level, average annual temperatures on the Korean Peninsula will rise by up to 7 C by 2100, pushing the people into a serious crisis, a government report warned Monday. The report published by the Korea Meteorological Administration (KMA) said the [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — Korean Air Lines Co. announced that it had made a set of exclusive name tags using a dismantled aircraft, a first in South Korea. The country’s top flag carrier recently sold through its mileage mall the name tags made in April. The name tags were made using the skin [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s major export companies may have to bear a significant financial burden if the European Union (EU), the United States and China introduce a proposed carbon border tax in 2023, a Seoul bureau of environmental activist group Greenpeace said Thursday. According to a report revealed by Greenpeace Seoul, [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — Seoul’s southeastern Songpa district said Thursday it will collect and sort cans and plastic bottles automatically using artificial intelligence (AI)-based resource circulation and collection robots. The district office will install a couple of such robots within its district. The AI-based robots will automatically sort, compress and store cans and [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — The Korea Meteorological Administration (KMA) held the official launch of its new ‘Earthquake Monitor Video Service’ on Wednesday. This service enables users to view the state weather agency’s real-time earthquake monitors and analysis through YouTube videos. Thus far, the KMA’s earthquake information was limited to only earthquake alerts that [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — A huge number of tiny squids were found washed ashore and dead on an east coast beach in the northeastern province of Gangwon on Thursday morning, bewildering residents and sending some of them rushing to pick up the sea creatures. According to residents of Goseong, 230 kilometers east of [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 13 (Korea Bizwire) – The Jung district office in the port city of Busan announced on Tuesday that it will re-launch a program that encourages participants to exchange disposable take-out cups for standard plastic garbage bags. This move is a part of efforts to promote recycling under circumstances in which the use of [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — Last month saw a record-low ultrafine dust density for December in South Korea, the government said Friday, citing outcomes from its seasonal management system for air pollution. The Ministry of Environment said last month’s national average density of ultrafine dust particles was 24 micrograms per cubic meter, the lowest [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — A recent study has revealed that recent back-to-back-to-back typhoons that hit the Korean peninsula last summer had an impact on wildfires that burned in the U.S. state of Oregon as their strong energy brought changes to the jet stream. Researchers from the Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology said [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — A growing number of South Koreans are becoming concerned over environmental damage caused by the use of plastic and disposable products as food delivery is replacing dining out following the coronavirus outbreak. The Ministry of Environment reported a 11.2 percent (5,349 tons) increase in everyday waste over the first [...]