SEOUL, Mar. 8 (Korea Bizwire) – A South Korean government laboratory said Friday it will conduct an aerial observation of flows of pollutants over the Yellow Sea to trace the origins of fine dust concentrations over the Korean Peninsula. The National Institute of Environmental Research (NIER), affiliated with the Ministry of Environment, said it will [...]
SEOUL, Mar. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s top diplomat said Thursday that there is a link between China and the worsening air pollution in South Korea, which officials here describe as tantamount to a disaster. “It’s true that there’s a cause (of fine dust) stemming from China,” Foreign Minister Kang Kyung-wha told reporters as [...]
UIJEONGBU, Mar. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — Gyeonggi Province announced on Wednesday that it will plant 275,000 trees in the desert in Inner Mongolia over the next five years, in order to reduce fine dust coming from China. Gyeonggi Province signed an agreement confirming the specifics of the project with the Korea-China Youth Association and the [...]
HONG KONG, CHINA, Mar. 6 (Korea Bizwire) - Artificial intelligence (AI) is inevitable. Coined in 1955 by American scientists to describe a new computer science division, AI has successfully penetrated into our daily lives: When you pick up your smartphone and talk to Siri – that is AI at work. When you text with a customer [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea enforced emergency measures to reduce fine dust nationwide, except Jeju Island, on Friday, as most of the country was blanketed by choking particulate matter for the third consecutive day. The level of ultrafine particles, smaller than 2.5 micrometers in diameter, in Seoul rose to 85 micrograms per [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — Heads of SK Group and Samsung Electronics are expected to attend the annual Boao Forum for Asia opening next month in China as invited guests, corporate officials said Friday. Commonly referred to as the Asian edition of the Davos Forum, the conference is scheduled from March 26-29 in Boao [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — China edged out South Korea in the global liquid crystal display (LCD) television sector last year to be the world’s top manufacturing country of the products, data showed Sunday. According to the data compiled by industry tracker IHS Markit, China accounted for the largest share (31.9 percent) of the [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — External sources accounted for 75 percent of South Korea’s ultrafine dust air pollution in January, a state-run environment agency said Wednesday. South Korea saw a drastic rise in the average level of ultrafine dust particles, those smaller than 2.5 micrometers in diameter, in between Jan. 11 and 15. According [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — Doosan Infracore Co., South Korea’s top construction equipment maker, is forecast to have racked up record earnings last year, aided by increased sales of excavators in China and emerging markets, industry sources said Tuesday. According to industry data compiled by market researcher FnGuide, the company is forecast to have [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — Hyundai Motor Co. said Wednesday it has set up a sales subsidiary in China for the sale of its independent Genesis brand luxury vehicles. The move is part of the South Korean carmaker’s stepped-up efforts to revive sales in the world’s biggest automobile market. Its sales in China fell [...]