SEOUL, Dec. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — Prices of agricultural products have skyrocketed following 54 days of disastrous summer weather that brought severe monsoon rains as well as five typhoons across the Korean peninsula. Experts argue that this is just the beginning, warning that an unprecedented scale of climate change will sweep across South Korea. Hot [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — The Seoul metropolitan government said Friday it will light up its city hall in green this weekend as part of a global event to mark the fifth anniversary of the Paris Agreement. The main building of the Seoul City Hall complex will glow green for an hour from 6 [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — President Moon Jae-in pledged a strong push for carbon neutrality “in all areas of industry, the economy, and society,” as he declared the 2050 vision in a statement broadcast live Thursday. “Carbon neutrality is a difficult but unavoidable task,” he said during the evening event, titled “Republic of Korea’s [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 8 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea’s public sector aims to reduce greenhouse gas emissions over the coming decade by 37.5 percent from the 2017 level, the environment ministry said Tuesday. The new target is designed to support the Moon Jae-in government’s plan to achieve carbon neutrality by 2050, which means to effectively reduce [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — Japan has provided South Korea with insufficient information so far about its plan to release radioactive water into the sea from the wrecked Fukushima nuclear power plant, a foreign ministry official said Monday. Tokyo appears close to announcing the plan to gradually release into the Pacific Ocean more than [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea said Thursday it plans to reduce the operation of some coal-powered plants over the winter in line with efforts to cut the emission of fine dust. Under the plan, the country will halt the operation of from nine to 16 coal-powered plants over the season, according to [...]
DAEJEON, Nov. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — The Korea Institute of Advanced Science and Technology (KAIST) announced on Monday that it had developed new technology that can be employed to turn carbon dioxide (CO2) into value-added resources such as building materials. The KAIST research team succeeded in transforming CO2 into a carbonate by using a hollow [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — The head of South Korea’s National Federation of Fisheries Cooperatives on Thursday demanded that Tokyo withdraw its plan to discharge radioactive water from its crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant. Im Joon-taek, chairman of the federation, also known as Suhyup, met with Masato Nagai, a councilor from the Japanese embassy, [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — The Seoul city government said Thursday its energy saving program reduced greenhouse gas emissions by over 247,000 tons from April through September. Members of Seoul’s “Eco-Mileage” program reduced carbon dioxide emissions by 247,137 tons, up 70 percent from the same period last year, creating the same effect as planting [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — The Korea Polar Research Institute (KOPRI) announced Monday that it has discovered a scientific principle on how glacier melt in the Antarctica warms up the East Asian region. It has been commonly understood that the cold water from melting glaciers lowers the surface temperature of the Antarctic sea, which [...]