SEOUL, March 13 (Korea Bizwire) —Employees at the state-run utility Korea Electric Power Corp. (KEPCO) are waging a yearly “nesting war” in spring to prevent magpie nests from causing power outages. As urbanization continues and trees are replaced by buildings, magpies have taken to building their nests on utility poles. Magpies begin constructing their nests in [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 31 (Korea Bizwire) — More than two-thirds of all blackout accidents caused by birds in the last three years were the work of magpies, South Korea’s state-run utility firm said Sunday. The Korea Electric Power Corp. (KEPCO) reported that out of all 133 bird-led blackouts that happened between 2018 and 2020, 93 cases [...]
SEOUL, May 20 (Korea Bizwire) — The Inje County Office in Gangwon Province will operate a task force from May 20 to the end of October to seize harmful wild animals. The team is comprised of 20 members of the Wildlife Management Association, and will be dispatched to the scene where wild animals are damaging [...]