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[The Hwankyung Ilbo] The Rural Development Administration announced that it will conduct a six-day training program for rice researchers from 19 member countries under the Korea-Africa Food & Agriculture Cooperation Initiative (KAFACI) in Senegal, Africa.This training was designed to select rice spe
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2018.11.26 08:41
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[The Hwankyung Ilbo] The government plans to designate Korea's major ports as Emission Control Area (ECA) starting from 2020 and strengthen the regulations on air pollutants from ships.The government will reduce the current emissions of sulfur dioxide from ships to less than 0.1 percent from les
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2018.11.23 09:12
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[The Hwankyung Ilbo] The Korea Water Resources Corporation announced that it signed a 'Smart Urban Flood Management Technology Cooperation Agreement' with the Seoul Government on November 22.The smart urban flood management technology of the Korea Water Resources Corporation is a technology
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2018.11.22 18:11
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[The Hwankyung Ilbo] The Korea Meteorological Administration and the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) are holding ‘The 2nd Regional Workshop on Impact-based Forecasts in Asia’ from November 19 to 21.It was designed to share experiences and technologies on impact forecasts in line with global
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2018.11.21 08:54
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[The Hwankyung Ilbo] The Ministry of Environment held its first joint meeting of the four rivers survey and evaluation professional committee and planning committee on November 16.The Ministry of Environment explained that it formed the committee considering the representation and expertise of each
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2018.11.20 10:59
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[The Hwankyung Ilbo] According to a survey conducted by the GyeongGi, Korea Federation for Environmental Movements(GGKFEM) in 10 regions within Gyeonggi-do using the nitrogen dioxide(NO₂) passive samplers, most regions exceeded the daily standard (40 ppb) recommended by the World Health Organization
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2018.11.19 08:35
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[The Hwankyung Ilbo] The Seoul Metropolitan Government will start electric bus service and lead reducing fine dust in the transportation sector. The pilot project will begin operation on a bus No. 1711 from November 15 and expand to 29 electric buses for three routes (No. 1711, No. 3413, No. 6514) b
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2018.11.16 09:16
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[The Hwankyung Ilbo] The Ministry of Environment announced that it will establish a database according to the amount of fine dust emitted by all vehicles operating in Korea (approximately 23 million vehicles) and launch the ‘Technical Committee for Automobile Emission Classification DB’ as an adviso
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2018.11.15 11:24
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[The Hwankyung Ilbo] While the government has announced a plan to abolish the restriction on the use of LPG cars to reduce fine dust, a budget of 5.7 billion won will be invested next year to support the conversion of children’s school bus to LPG vehicles.According to data from the Ministry of Envir
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2018.11.14 09:21
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[The Hwankyung Ilbo] The Seoul Metropolitan Government plans to launch a crackdown on 429 large construction sites that produce scattering dust in order to preemptively respond to the occurrence of high concentrations of fine dust in winter. Seoul will organize 8 subdivisions for 30 sites under cons
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2018.11.13 09:45
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[The Hwankyung Ilbo] The Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Graduate School of Green Growth and Coalition for Our Common Future will hold the 5th Seoul Climate-Energy Conference on November 16 in Seoul. The conference will focus on the theme of 'Hothouse Earth: How to Mo
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2018.11.12 10:19
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[The Hwankyung Ilbo] The National Institute of Biological Resources under the Ministry of Environment recently said that it is using the drone for the first time in the survey on the distribution of endangered wildlife plant areas that researchers can not directly observe.The drone has been used for
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2018.11.09 08:53
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[The Hwankyung Ilbo] According to a survey of 33 disposable cotton swabs distributed and sold in the market by Korea Consumer Agency, six products (18.2%) were found to contain general bacteria (in rive products) and fluorescent dyes (in one product) exceeding the standard value. The five products w
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2018.11.08 08:57
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[The Hwankyung Ilbo] The Korea Meteorological Administration announced that it will hold the '6th East Asia winter Climate Outlook Forum' from November 7 (Wed) to 9 (Fri) in Seoul.The East Asian Winter Climate Outlook Forum (EASCOF) is organized by the Korea, Japan, and Mongolian Meteorologi
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2018.11.07 11:27
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[The Hwankyung Ilbo] The 6th World Green Energy Forum will be held in Gyeongju from October 7 to 9. Industry, academia and government will participate in the forum to seek alternative policies to realize government goals and tasks that are followed by changes in global energy environment. The forum,
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2018.11.06 08:48
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[The Hwankyung Ilbo] During the month of October, temperatures were mostly cold, with large temperature changes and a lot of rain due to typhoon Kongrey. According to the "October Weather Characteristics" released by the Korea Meteorological Administration, the national average temperature was 13.
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2018.11.05 14:46
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[The Hwankyung Ilbo] The National Institute of Biological Resources under the Ministry of Environment announced that it would launch the Biogeographic Information Service(species.nibr.go.kr/geo)' which provides a comprehensive distribution information of the native species in Korea.The Biogeogra
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2018.11.02 08:59
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[The Hwankyung Ilbo] The Ministry of Environment announced that the comprehensive plan for the conservation of endangered wildlife has been established.The comprehensive plan includes measures that take into account the fundamental aspects of restoration of endangered species, such as the assessment
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2018.11.01 09:02
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[The Hwankyung Ilbo] The Ministry of Food and Drug Safety announced that it has revised and publicly announced rules on safety of medicines, which include registering and disclosing information on clinical trial plans, clinical trial status, and summary of clinical test results.Major revisions inclu
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2018.10.31 08:39
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[The Hwankyung Ilbo] The National Institute of Biological Resources under the Ministry of Environment conducted a simultaneous census of birds at 80 major wetlands throughout the country from October 19 to 21 this year and announced that a total of 176 species and 455,101 winter birds have arrived.C
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2018.10.30 09:27