SEOUL, Apr. 1 (Korea Bizwire) — Hyundai Steel Co., South Korea’s No. 2 steelmaker, said Monday that it plans to cut its environmentally harmful emissions by over 50 percent from the current level. Hyundai Steel said it aims to spend some 530 billion won (US$468 million) to address concerns over fine dust and other harmful [...]
SEOUL, Apr. 1 (Korea Bizwire) — SK Energy Co. said it will fund the replacement aged oil tank trucks to tackle fine dust as well as promote coexistence with partners. The energy giant doubled the budget (US$3.7 million) for replacing oil tank trucks operated by partner companies at a low interest rate of 2 percent. [...]
SEOUL, Mar. 31 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea will order a halt to public construction work in the event of high concentrations of fine dust, the government said Sunday. The finance ministry said it will dispatch guidelines to all state agencies to follow the new rules going forward. It said that if fine dust alarms [...]
SUWON, Mar. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — The Gyeonggi-do Institute of Health and Environment (GIHE) released a report that suggests that fireworks that took place in various locations in China during national holidays were the cause of increased heavy metal concentrations in fine dust sweeping over Gyeonggi Province. The institute, using a real-time heavy metal analyzer [...]
SEOUL, Mar. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — A Seoul court on Thursday levied a fine of 15 million won (US$13,200) on Nissan Korea, a local unit of Japanese automaker Nissan Motor, for falsifying emissions and gas mileage figures for some models sold in South Korea. The Seoul Central District Court said Nissan Korea has been found [...]
SEOUL, Mar. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea is about to set up a national organization to address one of its most pressing issues that is considered new but has been around for hundreds or thousands of years — dust coming from China. South Korea is seeing a clear increase in both the density and [...]
SEOUL, Mar. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — Use of disposable plastic bags will be banned at large retailers nationwide, starting next month, as part of the government’s efforts to reduce waste and conserve the environment, the Ministry of Environment said Wednesday. The ministry said about 2,000 hypermarkets and approximately 11,000 big supermarkets with sales floor space [...]
SEOUL, Mar. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — A recent study has showed that growing plants indoors can help improve air quality. The Rural Development Administration (RDA) revealed the results of the study on Tuesday, following a variety of experiments conducted on indoor plants over the last four years. “We used a special device that visualizes fine [...]
SEOUL, Mar. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — Experts are concerned over landfills in the Greater Seoul Metropolitan Area that are expected to reach their maximum capacity by the end of 2024. “Plastic bags, after being reclassified as domestic waste rather than recycled waste, have led to the increased inflow of waste into landfills,” said Kim Ryeok, [...]
SEOUL, Mar. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s three mobile carriers are actively joining efforts to cut greenhouse gases in a bid to boost their eco-friendly image and earn carbon credits for the 5G era, industry sources said Thursday. Top mobile carrier SK Telecom Co. and nine other affiliates of SK Group have decided to [...]