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Recently a team of scientist sponsored by NASA arrived in Korea and together with Korea?s National Institute of Environmental Research started a six weeks project to determine what causes the grey smog we often see in Korea?s air. Flying around in a vintage DC8, they collect data from the whole peninsula. While they say it is too early to determine all the findings, they have said that they detected specific signature of factories in Ulsan, home of Hyundai Heavy Industries and Hyundai Motors. They have also found pollution originating from southeast where Korea?s huge steel plant, Posco is located. Along with these industrial factories, Korea also has enormous amount of motor vehicles on the street. In April alone, 130,591 cars were registered in Korea according to Trading Economics. Along with cars, Korea also has many motorcycles which is seen as a major source of air pollution. Recently MBC reported motorcycle represents only 10% of all registered vehicles, however, they cause 25-35% of air pollution in Korea. Korean government has said for many years that China is the cause of air pollution in Korea. However, scientists on board of the DC8 stated that fine dust particles are originating from within Korea. Speaking to CNN, one of the scientist Jack Dib said, ?We think a lot of it is going to be mixture of pollution from the power plants and the cities with an awful lot of stuff coming from the forest, natural biogenics so we?re looking to see if that?s what?s really happening.? We may not be able to determine definitively the origin of air pollution in Korea, but we do know that it?s bad and it?s having detrimental effect on all of us. In a recent study by Yale University, South Korea ranked 173 out of 180 countries for air pollution. Instead of blaming China, Korean government must take drastic measures to improve Korea?s quality of air. Our lives depend on it.
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thanks for sharing
Posted 06-02-2018 23:27
good report
Posted 06-02-2018 23:26
Hi Daniel, Thanks for sharing your report on PM matter in South Korea.
Before looking into this problem, I also thought that it is attributed to China, but it turned out that there are many domestic sources of PM as well.
I agree with what you said, Korean government should take some measures to tackle current situation.
Thanks for your report again!
Posted 28-03-2017 13:21
Glad to know that NASA sponsored team arrived South Korea to assist in investigating its air pollution.Rightly said, instead of blaming neighboring countries, nations should strive to improve their own local air pollution. If all nations do so, no nation will get reason to complain against neighbors. Thanks for the report.
Posted 27-03-2017 02:00
Yeah instead of blaming others we need to see owns faults at first, well it is a good report to read.
Hope for the neat and clean environment of Korea where China should too take care about its neighbours.
Posted 27-03-2017 01:51
Great report!
Posted 26-03-2017 23:25