SEOUL, Oct. 16 (Korea Bizwire) – Emart, one of South Korea’s largest retailers, is taking a proactive stance against climate change through various afforestation activities, with its latest initiative reaching as far as the steppes of Mongolia. On October 15, Emart announced that it had begun planting trees in Mongolia’s Terelj National Park on October 10, [...]
SEOUL, July 20 (Korea Bizwire) — An increasing number of people are paying visits to an eerie tree featured in the popular SBS TV drama “Revenant.” In the drama, the tree was described as having been used to hang the bodies of children who died from infectious diseases, after placing them in pottery. In reality, [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — Street trees are more effective at cooling down city temperatures than setting up shade canopies, a study indicated Thursday. The Seoul Institute of Technology conducted a field study in Mapo District and Jung District in July and August during the hottest part of the summer, which showed that shade [...]
SEOUL, May 19 (Korea Bizwire) — Major South Korean financial holding firm KB Financial Group Inc. has launched a drive to restore the honeybee ecosystem amid a sharp decline in the number of honeybees due to climate change. The group said Wednesday it will create a forest by planting 100,000 honey source trees such as [...]
DAEJEON, April 1 (Korea Bizwire) — The Korea Forest Service (KFS) plans to host a special event, titled the ‘Very Special Tree Delivery Man,’ as part of the 2020 My Tree Ownership Campaign ahead of Korea’s Arbor Day. The program invites citizens to order a My Own Tree Kit and plant a tree at home [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — A civic group has set up a special tree to spread awareness of environmental pollution in celebration of Christmas and the end of the year. On Monday, the Korea Federation for Environmental Movements launched a campaign to produce a large cigarette butt tree measuring 3 meters in diameter and [...]
ANYANG, Oct. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — As the summer fades away in the crisp autumn air, trees in a park in Gyeonggi Province have ‘changed’ into clothes made of wool, drawing public interest. The city of Anyang’s Dongan District has recently finished clothing the trees at Pyeongchon Central Park on Tuesday. For the last two [...]
SUWON, May 1 (Korea Bizwire) — Gyeonggi Province announced the ‘Plant in the Forest’ project as part of its efforts to reduce fine dust. The province plans to work with companies to plant trees around factories and plants in the region to cleanse the atmosphere. Starting this year, the province will invite all factories in [...]
INCHEON, Mar. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — A cat stuck up in a 15-meter-tall tree near a local park in the city of Incheon for three straight days has been rescued by firefighters. On Tuesday afternoon, 119 received a call from an Incheon resident who said that a cat was found hanging on to a tree [...]
SUWON, Oct. 31 (Korea Bizwire) — Efforts to save a zelkova tree over 500-years-old in Dano Children’s Park in Suwon, Gyeonggi Province, which lost four large branches during this year’s summer monsoon season have been ongoing for over four months. Local government officials in Suwon, along with arborists, have been taking care of the new [...]