ANSAN, Oct. 18 (Korea Bizwire) – Emergency quarantine protocols were put in place at the Port of Busan after foreign red fire ants were discovered at a nearby open-air yard for shipping containers late last month. Questions over whether the protocols need to be expanded have been raised after a live lizard was discovered inside [...]
ANSAN, SOUTH KOREA, June 2 (Korea Bizwire) – As the newly elected Moon administration accelerates its efforts to implement environment policy, with the latest example being a temporary shutdown of aging coal-fueled power plants around the country, the city of Ansan is drawing attention over its emergence as a pioneer of renewable energy. According to [...]
ANSAN, Aug. 20 (Korea Bizwire) – Sihwa Lake, once synonymous with pollution, is born again as a repository of the local ecosystem. To spread the word, two college students crossed the lake in a raft made of PET bottles. In Chi-gwang (25) and Yoo Sol (25) are high school buddies. They agreed to cross Sihwa [...]
SEOUL, Apr. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — Korean artists are holding musical and stage performances to remember those who perished in the Sewol ferry tragedy, a year after the disaster took place. The Seoul Foundation for Arts and Culture is opening ‘Deluge,’ a non-verbal stage work made in remembrance of the incident, from April 16 to [...]
SEOUL, Apr. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — In the year following the deadly ferry sinking that claimed more than 300 lives, South Korea has striven to fix the social ills behind man-made disasters without any tangible results. Few people can testify to any actual improvement in disaster prevention or control as a series of safety-related accidents [...]