SEOUL, Jan. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — Ultrafine dust in the capitals of South Korea and China is made up of similar components, most coming from automotive emissions and coal power plants, joint research by the two countries showed Wednesday. According to the research released by the Korea-China Air Quality Joint Research Team, ultrafine dust collected [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — Hyundai Department Store said Wednesday it will launch an electronic receipt issuance service with the aim of “zero” paper receipts within three years. Electronic receipts will be issued in the form of the automatic issuance of receipts through mobile applications instead of paper receipts when purchasing goods. Even if [...]
ANDONG, Jan. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — North Gyeongsang Province is taking the lead in environmental protection by changing packaging materials placed in fruit boxes from polystyrene to paper. The provincial office recently developed a paper tray to replace polystyrene trays for fruit protection and applied it to apples for export to Taiwan and Vietnam for [...]
DAEJEON, Jan. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — A state-funded science institute on Sunday announced plans to start research on volcanic activities at Mount Paekdu, the highest peak on the Korean Peninsula, located along the North Korea-China border. A four-member team, set to be launched this month, will conduct the research in line with growing interest in [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s nuclear safety agency said Friday that it has approved the construction of seven additional spent fuel storage structures at the Wolsong nuclear power plant to allow for uninterrupted power generation. The decision comes after the state-run Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power Co., (KHNP) said the load at [...]
SEOUL/JEJU, Jan. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — Residents and visitors to Jeju Island witnessed the warmest January weather on Tuesday, with the daily low on the southern resort island rising to an all-time high of 18.5 C, a weather agency said. According to the Korea Meteorological Administration (KMA), some regions on the nation’s southern coast also [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 6 (Korea Bizwire) – A recent study has revealed that South Koreans use 3.3 billion plastic cups each year, enough to stack high enough to reach the moon. According to a Greenpeace report released on Saturday, South Korea used 23.5 billion plastic bags (469,000 tons), 4.9 billion plastic bottles (71,400 tons), and 3.3 [...]
JEJU, Jan. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — A group of mammal researchers conducted an autopsy on the dead body of a 12.6-meter-long fin whale at a port on South Korea’s largest island of Jeju on Friday, the first case in the country of a whale longer than 10 meters being examined to discover the cause of [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s fine dust emissions from coal-based power plants moved down 36 percent in the first three weeks of December from a year earlier, data showed Monday, after the country scaled down the operations of such plants for winter. Emissions of fine dust from local coal plants reached 828 [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean industries ranging from beverages and cosmetics to hotels are scrambling to cope with a tightened recycling law, industry officials said Friday. Under revised legislation implemented on Wednesday, producers and importers of polyethylene terephthalate (PET), glass and other materials such as drink bottles, food containers and cosmetics packaging [...]