SEOUL, March 27 (Korea Bizwire) — The first cherry blooming in Seoul this spring was observed Friday, the earliest in record due to warmer weather, the state weather agency said. It was seven days earlier than last year’s April 3 and 14 days earlier than the average date of April 10 between 1981 and 2010, [...]
SEOUL, March 27 (Korea Bizwire) — A project to provide various accommodation facilities and programs will be carried out in earnest, focusing on low-lying national parks. The purpose of the project is to prevent cases where nature is damaged due to the culture of mountain climbing and to allow those from all walks of life, [...]
SEOUL, March 25 (Korea Bizwire) — A group of South Korean scientists has identified the role of Antarctic ice shelves, revealing that they function as barriers preventing warm sea water flowing in from outside, and slowing the melting of Antarctic glaciers. The ice shelves are huge sheets of ice, hundreds of meters thick, that surround [...]
SEOUL, March 24 (Korea Bizwire) — The Cabinet on Tuesday approved a revision to the fine dust law, introducing a set of measures to better fight air pollution. Under the amendment, the government will be able to restrict the operation of vehicles, coal plants, construction sites and other large emitters during the peak period between [...]
SEOUL, March 20 (Korea Bizwire) — The government and academia will jointly conduct a three-dimensional observation of pollutants such as yellow dust and fine dust flowing into South Korea. The Korea Meteorological Administration (KMA) said Thursday it will conduct a three-dimensional observation of air quality in the West Sea to analyze incoming air pollutants to [...]
SEOUL, March 17 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s fine dust emissions from coal-fired power plants fell 40 percent on-year over the winter season, data showed Tuesday, after the country scaled down the operations of such plants. Emissions of fine dust from local coal plants reached 3,212 tons over the December-February period, down from 5,320 tons [...]
SEOUL, March 10 (Korea Bizwire) — A study by an international environmental organization has revealed that radioactive materials swept away by last year’s typhoon in Japan’s Fukushima Prefecture have spilled into decontaminated areas in the country. In particular, the level of radiation near certain facilities set aside for 2020 Tokyo Olympics turned out to exceed [...]
SEOUL, March 10 (Korea Bizwire) — The first blossoming of azaleas this spring was observed on the southern island of Jeju last week, nearly one month earlier than average due to warmer weather, the state weather agency said Tuesday. The observation was made on March 3, the earliest since the nation began to track the [...]
SEOUL, March 3 (Korea Bizwire) — The Seoul Metropolitan Government will be the first local government in South Korea to subsidize the installation of building-integrated photovoltaics (BIPV), which are used to replace conventional building materials and form an essential part of a permanent building’s structure. The city said Monday it will invest a total of [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — Global climate change has increased the frequency of abnormal weather conditions, such as heat waves, tropical nights and typhoons, and lengthened the duration of cold waves and droughts on the Korean Peninsula over the past decade, a government report said Wednesday. According to the report published jointly by the [...]