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Fri, October 23, 2020 | 02:12

14 delivery workers die because of pandemic overwork: union

14 delivery workers die because of pandemic overwork: union

Fourteen delivery workers in South Korea have died of overwork this year because they had to handle a sharply higher volume of packages due to the coronavirus pandemic, with the latest fatality this week, a union official said. A worker for CJ Logistics Corp collapsed while taking a short break late on Tuesday night and later died in hospital, according to an official at the ...

2020-10-22 21:00

Seoul issues fine dust advisory

Seoul issues fine dust advisory

The Seoul metropolitan government on Thursday issued its first fine dust advisory of this fall, citing an inflow of fine dust and yellow dust from China and elsewhere. According to the city's health and environment research center, the average fine dust concentration level stayed above 150 micrograms per cubic meter for over two hours, forcing it to issue the advisory.

2020-10-22 16:47

Samsung C&T, KEPCO urged to pull out of coal power plant project in Vietnam

Samsung C&T, KEPCO urged to pull out of coal power plant project in Vietnam

Global asset managers have urged companies building a coal-fired power plant in Vietnam to withdraw due to climate change risks and economic inefficiency, according to a letter from one of them.

Ko Dong-hwan | 2020-10-21 15:13

Air pollution killed nearly 500,000 newborns in 2019: global study

Air pollution killed nearly 500,000 newborns in 2019: global study

Air pollution killed 476,000 newborns in 2019, with the biggest hotspots in India and Sub-Saharan Africa, according to a new global study which said that nearly two-thirds of the deaths came from noxious fumes from cooking fuels. More than 116,000 Indian infants died from air pollution in the first month of life, and the corresponding figure was 236,000 in Sub-Saharan Africa,...

2020-10-21 14:34

Wolsong-1 reactor's economic viability unreasonably undervalued: watchdog

Wolsong-1 reactor's economic viability unreasonably undervalued: watchdog

The economic viability of South Korea's second-oldest nuclear reactor was unreasonably undervalued in determining the facility's early closure, state auditors said Tuesday. In its audit report on the early closure of the Wolsong-1, the Board of Audit and Inspection (BAI) concluded that a June 2018 projection report commissioned by the Korea Hydro Nuclear Power Co. (KHNP) incl...

2020-10-20 15:16

New 'remote' flare stack monitoring to reduce harmful emissions

New 'remote' flare stack monitoring to reduce harmful emissions

A new way to monitor flare stacks “remotely” to maintain their combustion rate high and reduce environmentally hazardous emissions has been developed by state environmental researchers.

Ko Dong-hwan | 2020-10-19 17:57

Experts advocate for immigration amid population decline

Experts advocate for immigration amid population decline

The government should change its immigration policy drastically in the face of the declining population, experts said Monday.

Bahk Eun-ji | 2020-10-19 16:43

[INTERVIEW] 'Korea's population outlook makes immigration talk inevitable'

Delivery worker dies from overwork, workers' group says

Delivery worker dies from overwork, workers' group says

A contract parcel delivery worker employed by the logistics company Hanjin Express died recently, a delivery workers' collective said Monday, arguing that an unbearable workload caused his death. The 36-year-old worker, whose surname was Kim and worked at a company branch in the central Seoul ward of Dongdaemun, was found dead at his home Monday last week, according to the ci...

2020-10-19 13:54

Concerns grow over poor work conditions at logistics firms

Concerns grow over poor work conditions at logistics firms

Only four days after a 40-year-old delivery worker at CJ Logistics died from respiratory difficulty on Oct. 8, another man in his 20s died from alleged overwork at Coupang's distribution center in Chilgok, North Gyeongsang Province, last Monday.

Kim Jae-heun | 2020-10-18 17:42

Seoul highlights citizens' health in handling Fukushima water issue

Seoul highlights citizens' health in handling Fukushima water issue

South Korea's foreign ministry reiterated its "foremost priority" to protect its citizens' health and safety Friday in dealing with Japan's potential discharge of contaminated water from its crippled Fukushima nuclear plant. The ministry also said the government has been handling the issue under a vice-ministerial inter-agency dialogue platform, amid public safety concerns ov...

2020-10-16 16:19

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