SUWON, South Korea, April 17 (Korea Bizwire) – The kt wiz baseball team announced Sunday it will offer free fine dust masks to fans visiting its home stadium in Suwon throughout the rest of the 2017 KBO season, amid rising health concerns over air quality in Korea. Thousands of free masks will be available at [...]
SEOUL, April 17 (Korea Bizwire) – The government will send an emergency message to people in Seoul and its satellite cities via mobile phone if severe fine dust is forecast in the region, the public security ministry said Sunday. “Once the message, called cell broadcast service (CBS), is issued, public agencies are obliged to follow the government’s emergency steps to reduce fine dust in the air, including the introduction of the two-day rotation system [...]
SEOUL, April 11 (Korea Bizwire) – As South Korea and China continue to clash head on in both politics and environmental issues, the anti-Chinese sentiment in South Korea is seeing a notable increase. In addition to political conflict over the deployment of an American THAAD missile system that has devastated the South Korean tourism industry, the [...]
SEOUL, April 11 (Korea Bizwire) – This is what spring skies are supposed to look like. With fine dust concentration levels at either ‘good’ (0 to 30 micrograms/cubic meter) or ‘average’ (31 to 80㎍/㎥) across South Korea, the skies were finally blue on Monday after being shrouded in a gray haze for weeks. The Seoul [...]
SEOUL, April 10 (Korea Bizwire) – The Seoul Metropolitan Government announced plans yesterday to use fire hydrants to clean the streets when find dust warnings are issued, after officials decided to consider fine dust as a natural disaster. Seoul’s resourceful new initiative comes after a task force dedicated to improving air quality decided to utilize [...]
SEOUL, April 10 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea’s air purifier market has grown rapidly in recent years, industry data showed Monday, amid rising air pollution levels that have been fueled by smog and yellow dust coming from China. Westerly winds carry smog from China, as well as yellow dust from Mongolia, to the Korean Peninsula [...]
SEOUL, April 6 (Korea Bizwire) – Seoul’s government said Thursday it will financially reward motorists for reducing their driving mileage, staring this month, as part of efforts to fight fine dust pollution and greenhouse gas emissions. According to the Seoul Metropolitan Government, the city’s motorists will be paid a maximum of 70,000 won (US$62) if [...]
SEOUL, April 5 (Korea Bizwire) – As a gray haze caused by fine dust continues to blanket South Korea, home appliance companies are enjoying booming sales with some companies running additional production lines over the weekend. Growing public concern over the health effects of fine dust and air pollution in the country are turning air [...]
SEOUL, April 5 (Korea Bizwire) – South Koreans on Wednesday sued the governments of Seoul and Beijing, seeking compensation over mental distress they suffered due to fine dust, the plaintiffs said. Choi Yul, Korea’s environmentalism pioneer and president of the Korea Green Foundation, and attorney Ahn Kyung-jae filed the case with the Seoul Central District [...]
SEOUL, March 30 (Korea Bizwire) – A new study suggests fine dust particles from China in 2007 alone were linked to the early deaths of 30,900 people in Korea and Japan. The global collaborative study by Tsinghua University, Beijing University, the University of California-Irvine, and the University of British Colombia examined the deadly impact of fine [...]