SEOUL, Apr. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — With air pollution becoming part of daily life in South Korea, the dining industry, especially “take-out” companies, have suffered a severe drop in customers. Companies are responding by increasing delivery services so that customers can purchase their food without having to leave home. Furthermore, direct management stores are selling [...]
SEOUL, Apr. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — The U.S. military in South Korea has made a policy change to allow its troops to wear filtering masks while in uniform amid growing concerns about air pollution here, an official said Tuesday. The U.S. Forces Korea (USFK) had banned its service members from wearing masks except when they [...]
SEOUL, Apr. 1 (Korea Bizwire) — The average concentration of PM2.5 harmful particles in the air reached the highest level in Seoul last month since it began to be observed in 2015, according to data released Monday by a state-run think tank. The National Institute of Environmental Research said the average concentration of PM2.5, particles [...]
SEOUL, Apr. 1 (Korea Bizwire) — Hyundai Steel Co., South Korea’s No. 2 steelmaker, said Monday that it plans to cut its environmentally harmful emissions by over 50 percent from the current level. Hyundai Steel said it aims to spend some 530 billion won (US$468 million) to address concerns over fine dust and other harmful [...]
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 [...]