Korea's waste incinerators are undergoing dramatic makeovers as local governments aim to turn what citizens once called ...

Plastic waste is causing environmental hazards in agricultural towns in the Korean countryside, as more than half of the waste is abandoned in empty fields, data showed Thursday. In the winter, those ...

SEOUL (Reuters) -South Korea has won international praise for its recycling efforts, but as it prepares to host talks for a global plastic waste agreement, experts say the country's approach ...

Deep-dive into the waste segregation and collection practices being used in South Korea The Korean government promotes the separation of wastes into food waste, unrecyclable waste, and recyclable ...

The food waste recycle rate went from 2.1% in 1995 to 90.2% in 2016. SEOUL, South Korea -- "Compost in my vegetable garden!" "No, mine first!" City farmers have been raising their voices to make sure ...

SEOUL, South Korea — Waste and propaganda are raining down across the Korean peninsula. It’s not the cross-border barrage South Koreans have been fearing: The country's military said Wednesday that ...

A woman in her 70s, a basic livelihood security recipient who collects waste paper, donated 300,000 Korean won, asking that ...

GUNSAN, South Korea — Workers at a rural South Korean factory are busy extracting some of the world’s most coveted metals, used in the batteries that power electric cars. But they’re not digging in ...

The Korea Radioactive Waste Agency (KORAD) on July 13 disposed its first waste in a newly completed low- and intermediate-level nuclear waste disposal facility underground at Gyeongju in North ...