South Korea is on a mission to transform from carbon villain to model
A year ago, Soyoung Lee was one of a crowd of climate activists demonstrating on the streets of Seoul in a campaign inspired by the global school strike founder Greta Thunberg. Today, the 35-year-old lawyer is the youngest member of the South Korean parliament and a driving force in the Read More...
South Koreans are stepping up to support local farmers impacted by COVID-19
Gangwon province in South Korea is famous for the production of potatoes. However, the coronavirus has hit restaurant demand to produce hard and 11,000 tons risk spoiling if they do not reach consumers by April. The local farmers’ guild and the government launched a campaign to boost online Read More...
South Korea will close coal plants this winter to combat air pollution
Last March, the government of South Korea declared air pollution to be a “social disaster.” This winter, they are taking steps to mitigate dangerous air quality. The country’s Ministry of Trade, Industry, and Energy announced it will shut down up to a quarter of the country’s coal-fired Read More...
Seoul’s seniors are fighting loneliness and isolation at the disco club
South Korea’s population is currently aging faster than any other developed nation in the world. According to a 2016 census, roughly 14 percent of the country’s population was made up of citizens over the age of 65, amounting to 6.8 million people. And, as there’s increasing evidence about Read More...
Korean car manufacturer Hyundai to develop hydrogen train by 2020
Train travel is about to get more sustainable as South Korea’s largest automaker, Hyundai Motor, and its locomotive arm, Hyundai Rotem, are slated to develop a hydrogen-powered train by 2020, which will be the first of its kind in the nation. Both companies are affiliates of the country’s top Read More...
A South Korea school is enrolling illiterate grandmas to save it from closing
South Korea’s birthrate has been plummeting in recent decades, falling to less than one child per woman last year, one of the lowest in the world. The hardest hit areas are rural counties, where babies have become an increasingly rare sight as young couples migrate en masse to big cities for Read More...
South Korea could teach us a thing or two about cutting down on food waste
What was once a city where foul-smelling landfills loomed over entire neighborhoods is now one of the cleanest cities on the planet. The city we're talking about is South Korea's capital, Seoul, which managed to clean up its streets thanks in part to one of the most rigorous food waste recycling Read More...
South Korea to shift all commercial vehicles to run on fuel cell energy by 2035
When it comes to air pollution, South Korea is one of the Asian countries that suffer the most. The country’s government is eager to change that, which is why it has set out a bold plan of shifting all of its commercial vehicles – including trucks and construction machinery – to run on fuel Read More...
South Korea bans single-use plastic bags from major supermarkets
South Korea is joining a growing list of countries attempting to halt the use of disposable plastic shopping Read More...
Paradise reclaimed
Seoul, South Korea, puts a new spin on progress by bulldozing a highway to build a park. John Vidal| March 2007 issue A year ago, several million people headed to a spot in the centre of Seoul, the capital of South Korea, to celebrate the opening of a new park. This was obviously not your ordinary Read More...