SEOUL, Nov. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s military said Friday North Korea has sent around 40 balloons filled with trash across the border into the South since the previous night, with most of them landing in the broader capital area. The Joint Chiefs of Staff said it discovered about 30 of the balloons launched [...]
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 [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 22 (Korea Bizwire) – Seoul’s single-person households throw away about 30 pieces of disposable items per day on average, more than twice as much as the average multi-person household. According to a survey conducted by the Seoul Digital Foundation, the quantity of disposable packaging materials such as styrofoam thrown away by single-person households [...]
BUSAN, Jul. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — Busan’s Songjeong Beach was met by a sudden deluge of marine waste on Monday morning after Typhoon Danas disappeared on Saturday, leaving behind marine trash that washed up on the beach. Some 100 people including employees of the beach management office, maritime life guards, and surfers pitched in to [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea will soon take back thousands of tons of trash that were illegally exported to the Philippines, the environment ministry here said Friday. “We’re now consulting with the Philippine government on schedules to bring back 6,300 tons of plastic garbage illegally shipped to the country,” Lee Byung-wha, a [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — Dozens of containers containing trash from South Korea entered the Philippines last July, which caused major upheaval in the Philippines for citizens and environmentalists alike. The trash in question was sent by a South Korea-Philippines joint venture, which reported that the containers contained pieces of plastic. The containers were [...]
BUSAN, Aug. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — The Busan Metropolitan Government announced on August 23 that it will be holding a special raffle event as part of its citywide cleanup efforts. The event will be restricted to Millak Waterfront Park to tackle waste left by visitors who do not correctly dispose of their garbage. To place [...]
SUWON, South Korea, April 28 (Korea Bizwire) – An elderly from Daejeon in his 70s is being investigated by the police for collecting presidential election brochures and flyers from a local apartment complex. The suspect, whose identity was withheld, testified that he (or she) took four envelopes from mailboxes and 11 from the floor. “I [...]
JEONJU, Aug. 10 (Korea Bizwire) – After a neighbor reported the “smell of a decomposing corpse”, Jeonju Police visited a trash-filled apartment for the first time on Monday, with the inhabitants initially suspected of child abuse. The apartment was occupied by a 32-year-old man and his 32-year-old wife, along with their four children aged 12, [...]
SEOUL, Feb.24 (Korea Bizwire) – Myeongdong, one of Seoul’s most famous tourist spots and shopping districts that is visited by more than 100,000 people daily, sees 30 tons of trash every day, most of which is thrown on the ground. It has often been pointed out that the number of trash bins is completely disproportionate [...]