SUWON, Aug. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — The city of Suwon, 45 kilometers south of Seoul, will carry out the country’s first study to determine the effectiveness of plants in reducing fine dust. Suwon’s city government set up a testbed for a fine dust reduction model in front of a local park last week. The testbed [...]
SEOUL, June 24 (Korea Bizwire) — A recent study showed that the most cost effective policy for the reduction of fine dust among the initiatives pursued by the Seoul metropolitan government is a measure targeting the mitigation of vehicle emissions. A report released on Wednesday by the Seoul Institute, a think tank for the Seoul [...]
JEJU, June 18 (Korea Bizwire) — A number of so-called ‘urban wind ventilation forests’ will be planted across the city of Jeju on South Korea’s largest island of the same name. The provincial government of Jeju Island announced Thursday that it will invest 10 billion won (US$8.8 million) between now and 2022 to plant forests [...]
SEOUL, May 7 (Korea Bizwire) — A yellow dust storm that originated in the Gobi Desert in northern China and Mongolia on Friday blanketed most of South Korea, including the greater Seoul area, the state weather agency said. A fine dust advisory, issued for Seoul at 1 p.m., was upgraded to a fine dust warning [...]
BUSAN, April 27 (Korea Bizwire) — Busan, South Korea’s second-largest city on the southern coast, plans to encourage the development of small-scale forests in downtown areas to improve the urban environment as well as to prevent fine dust from flowing into residential areas. The Busan metropolitan government announced plans to develop a total of eight [...]
SEOUL, April 22 (Korea Bizwire) — The state-run Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute said Wednesday that it has developed a new technology that analyses radioactive particles in fine dust and uses them to track down the source of the contaminant. The new technology places a marker to measure the changes in radioactive levels inside fine [...]
SEOUL, April 12 (Korea Bizwire) — Fine dust emissions from coal plants more than halved over the past four-month period compared with two years earlier, data showed Monday, after the country limited their operations during the winter. Local coal plants generated 3,191 tons of fine dust from December last year to March 2021, sharply down [...]
SEOUL, March 18 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea’s emissions of fine dust from coal power plants moved down 22 percent on-year during the winter season, data showed Thursday, as the country reduced their operations in sync with its efforts to ease dependence on fossil fuel. The combined amount of fine dust generated by local coal [...]
SEOUL, March 16 (Korea Bizwire) — The volume of fine dust emissions created in the transport and power generation sector is expected to decline dramatically over the next 20 years. According to a report from the Korea Energy Economics Institute, the volume of fine dust emissions generated by the domestic transport sector is forecast to [...]
CHUNCHEON, March 5 (Korea Bizwire) — The hydrocarbon particles contained in fine dust can hinder the growth and development of fetuses, a recent study showed. The study, carried out by researchers at Kangwon National University and Yonsei University, confirmed that two-dimensional graphene oxide is toxic to stem cells and leads to premature differentiation. Two-dimensional graphene oxide [...]