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Jeju Island’s Hometown Love Donation Program Makes Waves with Inaugural ‘Plogging with the Southern Bottlenose Dolphin’ Event

JEJU, Dec. 1 (Korea Bizwire) – On November 25, Jeju Island hosted the inaugural ‘Plogging with the Southern Bottlenose Dolphin’ event at Hyeopjae Beach in Jeju City, aiming to protect marine life along the island’s coast, particularly the endangered southern bottlenose dolphin, while also raising awareness about the importance of maintaining clean waters around Jeju. The [...]

Lotte Department Store Hosts Plogging Event Around Royal Palace

SEOUL, April 11 (Korea Bizwire) — Lotte Department Store said Monday it will host this year’s first plogging event, which combines jogging and picking up trash, in the neighborhood of Gyeonghui Palace in central Seoul. The department store chain operator will install a booth at the entrance of the palace for three days starting from [...]

Businesses Turn to ‘Plogging’ for Better Marketing

SEOUL, Oct. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — An increasing number of business marketers are using ‘plogging,’ the act of picking up trash while jogging, to polish company reputations as responsible participants in environmental, social and governance (ESG) management. South Korea’s top cosmetics maker Amorepacific Corp.’s eco-friendly brand Innisfree recently joined hands with marine waste collectors on [...]

Plogging a New Environmental Protection Fad

SEOUL, Sept. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — Plogging is rising as a new trend among members of the “MZ generation,” a Korean term referring to millennials and Generation Z, to protect the environment. The term ‘plogging’ is a combination of the terms ‘jogging’ and ‘plocka upp,’ Swedish for picking up grain. It refers to the act [...]

S. Koreans Embrace ‘Plogging Challenge’ Ahead of Earth Day

SEOUL, April 19 (Korea Bizwire) — Leaders from different fields and age groups took to the streets with protective masks on, donning gloves and carrying trash bags to ‘plog’. They were participating in the Plogging Challenge, which is being held worldwide in the leadup to the Earth Day on April 22. Plogging is an act [...]

Chuncheon to Host Plogging Program on Saturday

CHUNCHEON, July 15 (Korea Bizwire) — Chuncheon city’s With Eco, a plogging program where participants pick up trash as they jog, begins this Saturday. Plogging combines the terms ‘plocka upp’, a Swedish expression for picking up grains, and ‘jogging’. The program first began in Sweden in 2016, spreading worldwide as a meaningful event that can [...]