SEOUL, Mar. 25 (Korea Bizwire) – The ubiquitous use of disposable wet wipes across South Korean households and businesses is incurring an environmental toll that has raised alarms, with a recent government study estimating that the annual cost of managing the resulting waste has reached a staggering 1.78 trillion won. The findings, contained in a report [...]
JEJU, Jan. 12 (Korea Bizwire) – Jeju Island in South Korea is set to fully implement a new program designed to compensate local residents and landowners who contribute to the preservation of the island’s natural environment. The initiative will soon be recruiting participants, following the establishment of implementation guidelines. These guidelines include setting an hourly wage [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 27 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea has been reported to spend 2% of its Gross Domestic Product (GDP) on environmental protection, averaging approximately 920,000 won per capita. The Ministry of Environment revealed the compilation results of the environmental protection expenditure account for 2021 on December 25. In 2021, the national expenditure for environmental protection [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 25 (Korea Bizwire) – A group of people who care about the environment, including residents and public organizations, have been working together to improve the quality of water and make new products from recycled plastic. This effort has recently gained the attention of the media. Here’s the story about how they are protecting the [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — Three out of ten South Korean consumers take a company’s record on the environment into consideration when making purchasing decisions. KB Financial Group Inc., a major South Korean banking group, conducted a survey of 1,000 credit card users, 31.6 percent of whom said that their purchasing decisions were influenced [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — POSCO, the world’s fifth-largest steelmaker by output, said Tuesday that it has installed key equipment at its sinter plants in the southeastern city of Pohang in the latest move to reduce nitrogen oxide (NOx) emissions. The Selective Catalytic Reduction (SCR) equipment at three out of four sinter plants in [...]
CHUNCHEON, July 15 (Korea Bizwire) — Chuncheon city’s With Eco, a plogging program where participants pick up trash as they jog, begins this Saturday. Plogging combines the terms ‘plocka upp’, a Swedish expression for picking up grains, and ‘jogging’. The program first began in Sweden in 2016, spreading worldwide as a meaningful event that can [...]
SEOUL, July 12 (Korea Bizwire) — Nearly half of South Koreans viewed air pollution as the most pressing environmental concern last year, a government survey showed Sunday, amid a worsening level of fine dust in the country. According to a survey conducted by the state-run Korea Environment Institute on 3,008 people around the country, 46.5 [...]
SEJONG, Dec. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — The government on Tuesday announced a plan to lower the level of the country’s toxic fine dust to that recommended by the World Health Organization (WHO) by 2040. The plan is part of the 5th National Environment Comprehensive Plan (NECP), which was resolved for a “green society” at a [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 1 (Korea Bizwire) — A series of criticisms has been raised that what the government or private companies pushed for with the aim of protecting the environment ignored consumer convenience and reality. Recently, a Starbucks customer shared on social media the inconvenience felt while eating pudding purchased at one of the coffee giant’s [...]