SEOUL, Jun. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — Following the controversy surrounding ‘May,’ a retired detection dog found to be used in animal experiments at Seoul National University, the South Korean government has introduced a policy listing harsher restrictions on conducting experiments on working animals. The Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs announced on Wednesday that [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s first attempt last month to artificially make rain to fight air pollution ended in failure, government officials said Wednesday. In the experiment conducted over the Yellow Sea on Jan. 25, an aircraft was sent to seed clouds with silver iodide, a compound believed to cause rainfall, as [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s first artificial rain experiment over the Yellow Sea to analyze its effect on reducing fine dust concentrations has ended in failure, the government announced Monday. The Korea Meteorological Administration (KMA) and the Ministry of Environment said that their research institutes conducted the artificial precipitation experiment over the [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea conducted an artificial rain experiment over the Yellow Sea on Friday to analyze the method’s effect on reducing fine dust pollution. The Korea Meteorological Administration (KMA) and the Ministry of Environment said that their research institutes jointly began the rare experiment over the sea off the nation’s [...]