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According to the University of Chicago's Energy Policy Institute (EPIC), the average South Korean citizen can expect to lose approximately 1.4 years of life expectancy due to poor air quality. [28] Seoul, the nation's largest city, has the worst levels of air pollution, and residents of that city will live 1.7 years less if pollution levels are ...
North Korea mainly uses low-quality coal and wood as its main fuel and burns household waste to heat and cook, which is expected to expose it to considerable air pollution during the winter months. [29] The World Health Organization (WHO) announced that the death rate from air pollution in North Korea is the highest in the world. [30]
The N Seoul Tower is illuminated in blue from sunset to 11 pm (10 pm in winter) on days that the air quality in Seoul does not exceed 45 micrograms per cubic metre (2.0 × 10 −5 gr/cu ft) as measured by fine dust concentration. [12] During the spring of 2012, the tower was lit up for 52 days, which is four days more than in 2011.
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korean President Moon Jae-in has proposed a joint project with China to use artificial rain to clean the air in his country, where an acute increase in pollution ...
During 1987, the Kuomintang-San Dam was a major issue that Seoul sought to raise in talks with Pyongyang. Though Seoul completed the Peace Dam on the Bu khan River to counteract the potential threat of Pyongyang's dam project before the 1988 Olympics, the North Korean project apparently still was in its initial stages of construction in 1990 ...
Around 1,000 people from South Korea’s main opposition party and civil groups have staged a protest in downtown Seoul. The protest, on Saturday 26 August, is against Japan’s discharge of ...
Environmental protection areas in and around the capital city of Seoul (including eight local governments in Gyeonggi Province) were banned from large-scale development projects as those areas are mostly located near the catchment area of the Paldang Dam which supplies drinking water to about 23 million people in Seoul, the city of Incheon and ...
The Seoul Metropolitan Area is divided among the special city of Seoul, the metropolitan city of Incheon, and province of Gyeonggi. Seoul has 25 gu (local government wards), [12] Incheon has 8 gu and 2 counties, and Gyeonggi Province has 28 cities and 3 counties as the subdivisions.