YANGGU, Aug. 1 (Korea Bizwire) – In the tranquil town of Yanggu, nestled in the mountains of Gangwon Province, residents are once again grappling with the prospect of their homes being submerged. The announcement of a new dam project has reignited a decades-old conflict, leaving many in this close-knit community feeling betrayed and powerless. “I couldn’t [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — North Korea appears to have started discharging water from the upstream of a dam near the inter-Korean border in the early hours of Thursday without giving prior notice to South Korea, the environment ministry said. Satellite imagery taken at 3 a.m. showed the downstream of the North’s Hwanggang Dam [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — A dam under construction in Laos by SK Engineering & Construction Co. gave way on July 23, causing dozens of deaths with more than 100 locals still missing, leaving local officials as well as other stakeholders to determine the cause of the collapse as well as the level of [...]
ANDONG, South Korea, Nov. 29 (Korea Bizwire) – K-Water’s (Korea Water Resources Corporation) Andong regional office recently found a solution to the long-lived problem of cleaning up thousands of tons of floating debris near dams in the area, deciding to recycle the floating matter instead of wasting it. According to officials, hundreds of millions of [...]
SEOUL, July 6 (Korea Bizwire) – North Korea discharged water from a dam near the border with South Korea Wednesday, prompting the South to evacuate border-area residents for fears of flooding. “It seems that North Korea discharged water from Hwanggang Dam at around 6 a.m.,” a South Korean military official said. The North did not [...]
PAJU, June 29 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea’s military is keeping close tabs on water levels at a dam near the inter-Korean border, and is ready to step in if Pyongyang suddenly discharges water down the Imjin River. Sources reported that the water level at the North’s Hwanggang Dam bordering South Korea has risen to [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 14 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korean Prime Minister Hwang Kyo-Ahn and his Lao counterpart, Thongsing Thammavong, agreed Monday to work closely on a hydropower project in the Southeast Asian country, a South Korean official said. The two sides had planned to sign a deal on the development of Sepon III hydropower plant at [...]