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[The Hwankyung Ilbo] The Ministry of Oceans and Fisheries announced that it had completed the safety diagnosis for 5,780 facilities in marine and fishery areas such as fishing boats, fishing harbors, fishing ports and passenger ships for 67 days from February 5 to April 13.Safety diagnosis is a prev
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2018.05.02 09:14
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[The Hwankyung Ilbo] The Korea Meteorological Administration announced that it has concluded a business agreement with telecommunication companies (SKT‧KT‧LG U +) for quick and future-oriented earthquake and tsunami disaster message service.Based on the agreement, the Korea Meteorological Administra
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2018.05.01 20:41
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[The Hwankyung Ilbo] The Ministry of Environment announced on April 27 that it has signed a voluntary agreement with the 19 manufacturers of packaging materials for the use of recyclable packaging materials.Nineteen producers involved in the voluntary agreement are part of a recycling obligation pro
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2018.04.30 17:50
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[The Hwankyung Ilbo] The government (Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy, Ministry of Environment, Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transprt) agreed to establish a special purpose corporation (SPC) for the installation and operation of a hydrogen filling station with companies related to hydr
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2018.04.29 23:00
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[The Hwankyung Ilbo] All vehicles in production or in operation will be classified into five classes according to the amount of air pollutant emissions.The Ministry of Environment has newly established a rating rule that reflects the absolute difference in the amount of emissions of air pollutants d
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2018.04.26 12:50
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[The Hwankyung Ilbo] The government held the 11th Urban Regeneration Special Committee under the presidency of the Prime Minister Lee Nak-yeon at the Seoul Government Office and voted on a selection plan for the 2018 Urban Regeneration New Deal Project.The Special Committee has decided to select abo
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2018.04.25 12:49
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[The Hwankyung Ilbo] The World Water Challenge 2018, a contest for creative solutions to the 'water issue' that the world faces, will be launched.The event, which was held for the first time at the 7th World Water Forum in 2015, is hosted annually by the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and
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2018.04.25 11:09
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[The Hwankyung Ilbo] The Ministry of Environment announced that a new system of providing waste’s hazards information data took effect that was introduced through the revision of the Wasted Control Act.In accordance with the introduction of the system, a company discharging any industrial wastes mus
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2018.04.25 10:51
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[The Hwankyung Ilbo] 21 old public buildings that have been more than 36 years after construction have been selected for the ‘Green Remodeling Project’.The 'Green Remodeling Project' is a project to reduce the cooling and heating costs and improve the interior comfort by improving the exteri
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2018.04.20 09:09
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[The Hwankyung Ilbo] The Korea Meteorological Administration announced that it would start air quality three-dimensional observations in order to investigate the characteristics and route of pollutants flowing into Korea for two months from April 18, using weather aircraft, ship, and the ground moni
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2018.04.19 18:16
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[The Hwankyung Ilbo] The Ministry of Environment plans to hold a policy debate on ‘reducing fine dust through the spread of eco-friendly traffic culture’ on March 18 from 3 p.m. at the National Assembly Member’s Office Building.The environment-friendly traffic culture means to consider environment-f
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2018.04.19 08:38
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[The Hwankyung Ilbo] Ministry of Environment announced that it would enforce an intensive crackdown on automobile exhaust gas with 17 local governments of cities and provinces, and the Korea Environment Corporation from April 16 to 20 in order to reduce fine dust in the spring.The area subject to th
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2018.04.17 22:24
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[The Hwankyung Ilbo] A bill has been proposed for construction machinery to be subjected to exhaust gas inspection like general trucks, in order to reduce fine dust.Shin Chang-hyun of the Democratic party of Korea has proposed some amendments to the Clean Air Conservation Act and the Construction Ma
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2018.04.16 12:02
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[The Hwankyung Ilbo] While the problem of refusing to collect the waste vinyl still remains, the local government will start collecting it directly. The lack of space for storage is being discussed using the metropolitan landfill, the Korea Environment Corporation. In addition, the ease of administr
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2018.04.15 15:29
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[The Hwankyung Ilbo] The Ministry of Environment said that it would crack down on illegal activities of small-sized businesses generating fined dust in real time through high tech equipment such as drones.Accordingly, from the morning of April 11, the Ministry of Environment carried out a pilot crac
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2018.04.15 15:29
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[The Hwankyung Ilbo] Analysis on the causes of the high density of fine dust (PM2.5) that occurred from March 22nd to 27th showed that the contribution rate from abroad starting from 57% in the 22nd, increased to 69% in the 23rd, and gradually decreased.The National Institute of Environmental Resear
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2018.04.11 17:08
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[The Hwankyung Ilbo] The Ministry of Environment said to have agreed with the Secretariat of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) on holding the 6th National Adaptation Plans Expo in Korea in April 2019.The NAP Expo, which is one of the UN official international meeting
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2018.04.10 18:15
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[The Hwankyung Ilbo] Health masks that are purchased from pharmacies or marts and used to prevent yellow dust or fine dust have been found to be excellent in blocking fine dust.The Seoul Institute of Health and Environment announced that it evaluated the performance of 39 kinds of health masks and 1
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2018.04.09 10:13
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[The Hwankyung Ilbo] The National Institute of Biological Resources, a specialized research institute for studying the Korean native biological resources in Honam area (the southwestern region of Korea) and the coastal area, will be built in Mokpo-Si with the aim of completion by the end of 2019.The
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2018.04.06 09:04
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[The Hwankyung Ilbo] The Korea Forest Service announced on April 3 that it would intensively crack down on illegal harvesting of forest products and unauthorized entrance into the restricted area of a mountain until the end of May, as the number of people visiting a mountain in spring is expected to
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2018.04.05 16:49