SEOUL, Oct. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s parliament said Monday it has adopted a hydrogen fuel-cell electric bus as it pushes to promote hydrogen-powered vehicles. The National Assembly became the country’s first state organization to adopt a hydrogen bus, and it will use the zero-emission bus to help transport people within the parliament and [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s coal consumption for electricity generation decreased 7 percent in 2019 from a year earlier due to its efforts to cut carbon emissions, a report said Monday. Asia’s fourth-largest economy consumed 94 million tons of coal to generate electricity, compared with 101 million tons a year earlier, according [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — With demand for delivery services on the rise following the onset of the coronavirus pandemic, a growing number of South Koreans are voicing concerns over the increasing amount of disposable packaging being generated and discarded. In response, several home shopping retailers and online shopping malls are launching eco-friendly delivery [...]
JEJU, Sept. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — A group of “haenyeo,” or female divers in Jeju Island have voiced strong opposition ahead of the Jeju Provincial Council’s deliberations on the motion of the environmental impact assessment for the offshore wind farm in Gujwa-eup. About one hundred haenyeos who are members of the Handong-Pyeongdae fishing village fraternities [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — Seoul city plans to install an eco-friendly air conditioning system, which uses renewable hydrothermal energy created with water from the Han River, at a public transit complex planned to be built by 2027, its officials said Thursday. A hydrothermal energy system is a technology that uses water temperature that [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 24 (Korea Bizwire) – Consuming soy milk like a staple for years, Hur Ji-hyun, a 39-year-old upcycling designer, has always been troubled by a slim plastic straw that comes with every single serving of soy beverage. Having never used the 15-centimeter straw wrapped in plastic and glued to the back of the pack, [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 22 (Korea Bizwire) – Seoul’s single-person households throw away about 30 pieces of disposable items per day on average, more than twice as much as the average multi-person household. According to a survey conducted by the Seoul Digital Foundation, the quantity of disposable packaging materials such as styrofoam thrown away by single-person households [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — A South Korean research team has developed new technology that can decontaminate the surface of radioactive polluted buildings simply by spraying a hydrogel-based spray coater and washing it with water. The Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute announced on Wednesday that it had developed a hydrogel-based surface decontamination coater that [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s carbon dioxide concentration rate exceeded the global average last year, a report showed Thursday, raising concerns over climate change. The annual carbon dioxide concentration rate in South Korea averaged 417.9 parts per million (ppm) last year, compared with the global average of 409.8 ppm, according to the [...]
DAEJEON, Sept. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean researchers have developed a cosmetic cushion using carbon dioxide (CO2). The Korea Research Institute of Chemical Technology (KRICT) announced on Monday that it had developed a polyurethane cosmetic cushion and a heat-insulating building material using CO2, in collaboration with two local companies, Pusan National University and Inje [...]