SEOUL, May 23 (Korea Bizwire) – The South Korean government has decided to regulate the sale of portable oxygen canisters, which have become increasingly popular amid fine dust fears that have been gripping the peninsula. According to the Ministry of Food and Drug Safety on Monday, a revision designating portable oxygen cans as “quasi-drugs” will [...]
SEOUL, May 22 (Korea Bizwire) – The Korea Electric Power Corporation (KEPCO) announced plans last Friday to reduce emissions of fine dust particles from its coal-fired power plants in South Korea by 50 percent over the next five years. KEPCO and five of its affiliates held an emergency conference last week at KEPCO Art Center [...]
POHANG, South Korea, May 18 (Korea Bizwire) – POSCO’s 1-trillion-won ($887 million) thermal power plant in Pohang is likely to be scrapped amid growing concerns over fine dust and stringent environmental policies on the part of the current administration. The world’s fourth-largest steelmaker has 13 generators of 20MW to 146MW-capacity at its Pohang steelworks, mainly [...]
SEOUL, May 17 (Korea Bizwire) – The Korea Institute of Machinery & Materials announced Tuesday that it has developed a technology to reduce fine dust emissions at thermal power stations by roughly 90 percent. The institute recently installed catalytic denitrification equipment – typically employed at power plants to reduce pollutants by converting nitrogen oxide into [...]
SEOUL, May 15 (Korea Bizwire) – Newly elected president Moon Jae-in has issued an executive order to shut down a number of aged coal-fired power plants in South Korea in a move to curb the fine dust problems that are plaguing the country, only days after he was sworn into office. Moon revealed today his plan [...]
SEOUL, May 8 (Korea Bizwire) – In the wake of the recent air pollution epidemic that is plaguing the country, South Korean search giant Naver added a new feature to its mobile web mapping service last week which tracks and records the movement of fine dust in Korea, China and Japan, allowing users to check fine [...]
SEOUL, May 4 (Korea Bizwire) – As a grey haze of fine dust continues to blanket South Korea, the epidemic is sweeping through kitchens and school playgrounds across the nation, with some schools reportedly cancelling sports days while experts warn homemakers against opening the windows for too long when cooking, in fear of letting in [...]
SEOUL, May 2 (Korea Bizwire) — Amid a grey haze of fine dust that continues to blanket South Korea, flower farms are seeing a ray of light as consumers flock to buy air-filtering plants to take the issue of air quality into their own hands. The worsening air quality – the result of higher levels [...]
SEOUL, April 27 (Korea Bizwire) – Over half of the fine dust particles in Seoul come from abroad, the municipal government said Thursday, amid the city’s struggle to fight worsening air quality. The Seoul Metropolitan Government, citing a study conducted by the Seoul Institute, said the portion of the capital’s fine dust pollution from China [...]
SEOUL, April 26 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea has far too lenient regulations on fine dust measurement and needs to toughen the threshold to better inform the public of the air quality amid the worsening climate here, experts here said Wednesday. According to the Ministry of Environment, a daily average of over 50 micrograms of [...]