Most of the territory of South Korea is shrouded in smog

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Most of the territory of South Korea is shrouded in smog. Emergency measures to improve the environmental situation are for 6 days, but they are inconclusive. A normal situation is stored only in two cities – Busan and Ulsan, according to KBS World radio.

In Seoul and the Metropolitan area a restriction on the use of vehicles with the fifth exhaust emissions. Citizens are encouraged to use public transport. In the capital closed 441 public Parking at public institutions. Thermal power plant working no more than 80% capacity.

The second day the problem with a high concentration of micropyle stored on Jeju island in the Korean Strait.

Micropyle cloud moved in an easterly direction. In the result of emergency measures were first adopted in the County Yeongdong, Gangwon province.

The President of South Korea, moon Jae-In said that emergency measures to tackle the problem micropyle should be developed jointly with China. According to him, first and foremost, the focus should be on the adoption of joint emergency action in case of high concentration. The President also ordered together with China to implement the project of creation of artificial rain over the Yellow sea. He recalled that the agreement had already been reached at the talks of the Ministers of environment of the two countries.

It is known that China has advanced technologies in this field. Moon Jae-In said that this is advantageous for the Chinese side, which claims that the South Korean dust cloud heading towards Shanghai.

In addition, he has instructed to develop jointly with China the warning system micropyle. Moon Jae-In said the possibility of making emergency supplementary budget and did not rule out this possibility in case of need of additional funding to projects to increase the number of cleaners and other measures to reduce micropyle. He called as soon as possible to close thermal power plants running on coal, whose age has exceeded 30 years.

KBS notes that last year South Korea was the second among the countries of the Organization for economic cooperation and development (OECD) concentration micropyle in the atmosphere. This is indicated by the results of data analysis AirVisual American company, which was organized by Green Peace.

It is reported that in 2018 the average level of concentration micropyle in the country was 24 micrograms per cubic meter. This is the 27th highest among the 73 countries whose data were used in the study. Among OECD countries, the Korean mark was the second after Chile to 24.9 micrograms per cubic meter. The worst rate in the world recorded in Bangladesh – 97.1 micrograms per cubic meter. This is followed by Pakistan, India and other South Asian countries. China 12 was 41.2 micrograms per cubic meter.

Such a disappointing performance in South Asia are explained by the influence of exhaust gases from vehicles and other factors, and in East Asia – high volume of coal use in the energy sector.