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[The Hwankyung Ilbo] The Korea Meteorological Administration said it will change the standards for the announcement of heavy rain watch and warning from June 1 in order to reflect the increasing tendency of recent heavy rains.The standard for issuing a heavy rain watch will be reduced from over 70 m
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2018.05.25 18:03
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[The Hwankyung Ilbo] The Ministry of Environment and the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport announced that it will enforce the 'Guideline for the investigation and management of animal road accidents (road kills)' on May 28 to reduce wild animal accidents on the roads.Despite the
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2018.05.24 17:39
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[The Hwankyung Ilbo] The Korea National Park Service said on that a fracture operation of an Asiatic black bear, KM53, was successfully completed, which had had an accident on May 5.KM53 was caught for treatment on May 11, and on May 17, from 1 pm to 12 pm, underwent an operation for combined fractu
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2018.05.23 09:57
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[The Hwankyung Ilbo] The Ministry of the Interior and Safety will carry out a nationwide inspection of rainwater storage facilities in cooperation with private experts from 21 to 25 to prepare for natural disasters such as typhoons and heavy rain in summer. In order to conduct an in-depth inspection
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2018.05.22 12:20
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[The Hwankyung Ilbo] The Ministry of Oceans and Fisheries launched a 'Marine Greenhouse Gas Reduction Response Research Council' on the 16th in order to respond to international regulations on greenhouse gas emissions. Minister Kim has promoted the council, saying, "The regulation of greenh
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2018.05.21 09:51
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[The Hwankyung Ilbo] The National Institute of Forest Science plans to set up a ‘Landslide Prediction and Analysis Center to prevent landslides.Korea has experienced landslides of about 400ha every year (1976 ~ 2017) due to heavy rain during summer. Over the last 10 years, an annual average of 240 h
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2018.05.21 09:41
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[The Hwankyung Ilbo] In the last seven years, the traffic volume has increased nationwide, while the public transportation usage rate has decreased.The Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport and Maritime Affairs analyzed national traffic survey data from 2010 to 2016, showing that the nation
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2018.05.17 09:10
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[The Hwankyung Ilbo] The Ministry of Environment announced that it will make a special inspection of the plant that emits ozone-related substance using cutting-edge technology such as drone to reduce volatile organic compounds (VOCs) and nitrogen oxides (NOx).This special crackdown was designed to p
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2018.05.16 09:50
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[The Hwankyung Ilbo] The government predicted that there will be no shortage of water in the rice-planting season, as the country's water reserve rate surpasses the normal level due to heavy rainfall this spring.The accumulated precipitation is expected to be almost 123% of the average for the l
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2018.05.15 13:14
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[The Hwankyung Ilbo] The Korea National Park Service under the Ministry of Environment announced that it will be operating a special team that will crackdown illegal hiking that takes place in the nonlegal trails of national parks such as Mt. Jiri and Mt. Soerak.The team has been introduced to block
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2018.05.14 14:10
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[The Hwankyung Ilbo] From 1 June, the cost of airline information for international flights when landing at Korean airports is expected to rise by 85% from the current 6,170 won to 11,400 won. Also, when foreign airplanes pass through the airspace of Korea, the fee for use will be raised by 118% fro
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2018.05.14 14:10
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[The Hwankyung Ilbo] Carbon point system pilot project will be promoted this year with the aim of formal introduction in 2019. Vehicle carbon point system is a system that gives Carbon points worth up to 100,000 won if the eco-friendly operation results such as shortening the driving distance are co
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2018.05.11 16:17
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[The Hwankyung Ilbo] The Ministry of Environment said that it will expand the project to support 'liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) vehicles for children's schooling' to protect children's health from fine dust.Starting from July last year, this project, which started with 800 vehicles i
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2018.05.09 09:23
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[The Hwankyung Ilbo] The Ministry of Environment announced prior announcement of legislation of amendments to ‘the Enforcement Decree of the Clean Air Conservation Act and the Enforcement Rule of the Clean Air Conservation Act’ for 40 days from May 4, which introduced charges on nitrogen oxides (NOx
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2018.05.08 12:11
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[The Hwankyung Ilbo] The Korea Meteorological Administration and the National Institute of Fisheries Science have promised to cooperate to minimize damage caused by abnormal water temperature due to climate change.The cooperation is to link the real-time ocean observation networks operated by the or
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2018.05.07 18:16
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[The Hwankyung Ilbo] The Korea Meteorological Administration announced on May 2 that the Volcano Specialized Research Center was opened at Pusan National University for in-depth research on Mt. Baekdu volcano.The Volcano Specialized Research Center will analyze the data of volcanic gas change of M
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2018.05.04 13:11
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[The Hwankyung Ilbo] The Ministry of Environment announced that it will focus on management of non-point source from early May to late June to prevent water pollution ahead of the rainy season.Non-point pollution sources are pollutants emitted from unspecified places such as roads, agricultural land
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2018.05.03 08:44
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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