Hey what’s up guys! I’m here with my July’s Topic, ‘International Environmental Law’! Before I start my report, what is ‘International Environmental Law’? It’s a branch of public ‘International Law’, rules and laws that deals about relationships among nations. The International Environmental Law covers topics such as population, climate change, desertification etc. There are also lots of international conferences to debate and update, fix these laws.

There are some situations that relate to the International Environmental Law, but before that I think we should follow our country’s environmental law first, then we can also follow the International Environmental Law easily.

For South Korea, we have lots of problems with our environmental law. Year by year, cases of violating South Korea’s environmental law is increasing, but punishments from violating the law is too soft, that most companies keep violating with no problem.

From 2015 to now, 3232 cases have been filed nationwide, but 1011 cases, 31.2%, have been suspended and prosecuted. On the other hand, 23 cases (0.7 percent) of cases were punished, 20 cases (0.6 percent) were fined about $ 9000 (dollars) and 1452 cases (44.9 percent), half of the whole cases were fines of less than $ 3000 (dollars).

Since this is becoming a huge problem, lots of experts and members from the South Korea Congress are taking action to stop this. The South Korean government must find a way to solve this and make environmental laws strict.

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