SEOUL, Apr. 1 (Korea Bizwire) — SK Energy Co. said it will fund the replacement aged oil tank trucks to tackle fine dust as well as promote coexistence with partners. The energy giant doubled the budget (US$3.7 million) for replacing oil tank trucks operated by partner companies at a low interest rate of 2 percent. [...]
SEOUL, Mar. 31 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea will order a halt to public construction work in the event of high concentrations of fine dust, the government said Sunday. The finance ministry said it will dispatch guidelines to all state agencies to follow the new rules going forward. It said that if fine dust alarms [...]
SUWON, Mar. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — The Gyeonggi-do Institute of Health and Environment (GIHE) released a report that suggests that fireworks that took place in various locations in China during national holidays were the cause of increased heavy metal concentrations in fine dust sweeping over Gyeonggi Province. The institute, using a real-time heavy metal analyzer [...]
SEOUL, Mar. 28 (Korea Bizwire) – Seoul’s Seocho District announced on Wednesday that it will install air purifiers in Seoripul Igloos, specially designed bus stops to take shelter from the winter freeze, to use them as ‘fine dust shelters’ in warmer seasons. The standing type air purifiers have been leased by a private company, and [...]
SEOUL, Mar. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea is about to set up a national organization to address one of its most pressing issues that is considered new but has been around for hundreds or thousands of years — dust coming from China. South Korea is seeing a clear increase in both the density and [...]
SEOUL, Mar. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — The Seoul Metropolitan Government will plant an additional 15 million trees in various parts of the city by 2022, part of a plan that is aimed at making the city’s urban environment greener while also reducing air pollution and improving air quality. The details of the new plan were [...]
SEOUL, Mar. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — A recent study has showed that growing plants indoors can help improve air quality. The Rural Development Administration (RDA) revealed the results of the study on Tuesday, following a variety of experiments conducted on indoor plants over the last four years. “We used a special device that visualizes fine [...]
DAEJEON, Mar. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — Experts are concerned over the problem that solar panels are being installed in areas that are ten times the size of forests being created to reduce fine dust. Rep. Kim Tae-heum, a member of the main opposition Liberty Korea Party, revealed that a total of 5,553 projects have been [...]
SEOUL, Mar. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s government lifted restrictions on the sale of liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) powered vehicles to consumers Tuesday as it pushes to improve air quality in the country. The move allows everyone to buy cars that emit less fine dust and other pollutants into the environment, which has become [...]
SEOUL, Mar. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — With the Korean peninsula blanketed in dense air pollution for much of the first part of this year, sales of plants that are effective in purifying the air have increased. The Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs and the Korea Agro-Fisheries & Food Trade Corp. announced on Sunday [...]