Greenpeace samples the air pollutants in Dangjin, Korea. The pollutants especially PM 2.5, emitted by the Dangjin Coal Fired Power Plants, is an extremely serious and imminent healthy concern for ...
The commitments follow coal divestment pledges from major Korean financial groups made in 2020, including Shinhan, Samsung, and Woori Financial Group. Hanwha’s announcement also comes three months ...
Former prisoner Kim Hye-sook drew these depictions of her experience in a North Korean coal mine Generations of South Korean prisoners of war are being used as slave labour in North Korean coal ...
A new report inadvertently sheds light on the extent of North Korea’s COVID-19 quarantine measures – and their impact on its sanctions evasion efforts. How hard will the latest UN sanctions ...
As the mysterious killing of a North Korean continues to dominate the news cycle, another piece of North Korea news may be of even greater significance: China has announced the halting of all coal ...
South Korea, Asia's fourth-largest economy, has about 60 coal-fired power plants, generating 40 percent of the country's electricity. But experts say burning coal has worsened air quality in the ...
(Bloomberg) -- South Korea’s National Pension Service, the world’s third-largest retirement fund, will need to sell holdings in some overseas coal producers and potentially the nation’s ...
An employee walks between front-end loaders which are used to move coal imported from North Korea at Dandong port in the Chinese border city of Dandong, Liaoning province Beijing: China's imports ...
Two weeks after South Korea’s climate emergency declaration, its biggest state-owned utility firm has been given the go-ahead to build the Vung Ang 2 coal project in Vietnam. Several other Korean ...
His injury is not the result of the war he fought, but the subsequent 54 years he was forced to toil in a North Korean coal mine. The former South Korean soldier was captured during the Korean War ...