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Seoul National University Develops Eco-friendly Restrooms

Seoul National University Develops Eco-friendly Restrooms

SEOUL, Mar. 1 (Korea Bizwire) — A research team at Seoul National University (SNU) combined technology with a traditional Korean toilet ‘haeuso’ to develop an eco-friendly restroom. Prof. Han Moo-young and his research team at SNU’s Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering designed the Tori restroom, which automatically recycles human waste into fertilizer without requiring [...]

Married Population Dislikes Cleaning Toilets the Most: Survey

Married Population Dislikes Cleaning Toilets the Most: Survey

SEOUL, Aug. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — A new survey has found that 70 percent of the married population picked the toilet as their least-favorite thing to clean. In a survey by 3M Korea that collected data from 1,000 married men and women in their 20s to 40s, 70.3 percent of respondents said the toilet was [...]

Government Invests 10 Billion in University’s Poop-to-Currency Project

Government Invests 10 Billion in University’s Poop-to-Currency Project

ULSAN, South Korea, March 9 (Korea Bizwire) – “Ttong-bonwi-hwapae” literally translates into “poop standard currency.” And the government is investing 10 billion won ($8.65 million) over the next five years to turn this human waste-to-currency idea into reality in South Korean towns and cities.  A pilot project was initially spearheaded by the Ulsan National Institute [...]

What If You Can Get Paid to Go to the Bathroom?

What If You Can Get Paid to Go to the Bathroom?

ULSAN, South Korea, Aug. 29 (Korea Bizwire) – UNIST (Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology) has the perfect solution for an unwanted problem with its sewage-to-currency technology. The technology is currently being exported to China.  The institute recently announced that it signed a business agreement with Chinese firm Xi Jia International Trade Co., Ltd. for [...]

23 Percent of Seoul Citizens Prefer Traditional Toilets in Public Restrooms

23 Percent of Seoul Citizens Prefer Traditional Toilets in Public Restrooms

SEOUL, June 21 (Korea Bizwire) – Nearly a quarter of citizens in Seoul prefer traditional toilets to western style ones in public restrooms, a government survey showed Tuesday.  According to the survey conducted by the Seoul Metropolitan Government on 3,137 people in March 2015, 22.8 percent of the respondents said they prefer traditional latrines where [...]