SEOUL, June 5 (Korea Bizwire) — Pregnant women who experience high exposure to air pollutants face an increased risk of their babies developing both autistic spectrum disorder (ASD) and epilepsy, a study showed Sunday. A research team from Korea University Ansan Hospital conducted a study involving 843,134 pregnant women registered with the National Health Insurance [...]
BUSAN, April 24 (Korea Bizwire) — Busan, South Korea’s second-largest city, is set to make the nation’s first attempt to measure the density of pollutants in the atmosphere by installing sensors on city buses. The Busan metropolitan government said Sunday that mobile atmospheric control systems have been installed on 54 city buses, and a pilot [...]
SEOUL, May 26 (Korea Bizwire) — Air pollutants like sulfur dioxide and carbon monoxide raise the risk of COVID-19 infection, a study showed Wednesday. A joint research team from CHA University and Kyungnam University conducted a study of 3,234 people who were infected with COVID-19 between January and April 2020 to look at how weather [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — Hyundai Steel Co., South Korea’s No. 2 steelmaker, has developed the world’s first technology to fully block air pollutants emitted from blast furnaces, successfully introducing them to the actual steelmaking process. The company said Tuesday it had installed clean gas valves for furnace shutdowns or re-feeding hot blasts to [...]
SEOUL, May 6 (Korea Bizwire) — Last year, air pollutants emitted by large businesses across the country with tele-monitoring system (TMS) were reported to have decreased by 16 percent from the previous year. A survey of 631 TMS-equipped businesses nationwide on emissions of seven types of air pollutants last year showed a total of 277,696 [...]
SEOUL, Apr. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — Domestic civic groups filed a joint complaint against POSCO with prosecutors on Monday, accusing the world’s fifth-largest steelmaker of releasing air pollutants. The civic groups, led by the Korean Federation for Environmental Movement and its regional chapter in Pohang, where POSCO’s headquarters are located, argued in the complaint that [...]