AMSTERDAM -- At first it was through a Korean drama that Fauzia Jonas, a 52-year-old Dutch national, got captivated by Korean culture. Then came the K-pop sensation, BTS. Now, it is everything about Korea and Koreans that she wants to learn more about. “It drew me in like a magnet. The attraction (to the Korean culture) keeps getting deeper as I learn more about the culture and interact with Kor...

Stretching from Seoul to Guri, Gyeonggi Province, Achasan Mountain is one of the best places to see traces of the Goguryeo dynasty, a period when Korea had the largest territory in its 5,000-year history, with its Achasanseong Fortress and over 80 sentry posts. Located at the entrance of the mountain, the Goguryeo Blacksmith Village offers a glimpse into the lives of Goguryeo people and its flou...

Unlike for COVID-19, there is no vaccine for climate change. However, there is a treatment to prevent further damage -- a circular economy that focuses on sharing, reusing and extending the life span of products rather than making mere profit, futurist Gerd Leonhard said in a keynote speech at H.eco Forum held Thursday. “We are going to have more money but there won’t be any planet to spend it ...

Following the keynote speeches, the forum went on to explore the role of governments, businesses and individuals in fighting climate change. Opening the first session was Yun Sun-jin, co-chairperson of Korea’s 2050 Carbon Neutrality Commission, who discussed the country’s road to a green transition and net zero emissions. Juan Manuel Santos, who was president of Colombia from 2010 to 2018 and wo...

The event will be livestreamed on the H.eco YouTube channel at https://bit.ly/33dCF4G . English-Korean interpretation will be provided. To mark Herald Corp’s first H.eco Forum, President Moon Jae-in, Vice Environment Minister Hong Jeong-kee and Rep. Kim Sung-joo, lawmaker of the Democratic Party of Korea and head of the National Assembly’s ESG forum, are to give congratulatory remarks. Juan C...

It was after she watched the 2005 film “Earthlings” -- on the suffering that humans cause animals -- that she was able to connect the dots between meat consumption, greenhouse gas emissions, global warming and climate change. “I thought it was just a problem of dying polar bears and sinking islands. I didn’t know it was my problem,” she said. “But it became clearer that my life, dignity and righ...

If emissions continue at the current rate, the Earth has about six years and 235 days before the effects of global warming become irreversible. That is what the Climate Clock installed on the roof of Herald Corp. headquarters shows as of June. To turn back the Climate Clock, Herald Corp. has a new mission: to address environmental problems and the climate crisis. As the first step, we are launch...

The Korea Herald is publishing a series of interviews with the lineup of speakers who will discuss solutions to the climate crisis at the H.eco Forum, which is scheduled to be held virtually on June 10 under the theme “We Face the Climate Clock.” -- Ed. South Korea pledged to go carbon-free by 2050 in October last year -- an ambitious goal for the world’s seventh-largest emitter of carbon dioxid...

For Korea, offshore wind power could be a “strong alternative,” he said, noting that wind power is more energy efficient than solar power and that Korea has limited land and relies heavily on fossil fuels. In Korea, Orsted wants to develop some 1.6 gigawatts of offshore wind in waters off Incheon to provide clean power to 1.4 million Korean households per year, with commissioning of the faciliti...

The Korea Herald is publishing a series of interviews with the lineup of speakers who will discuss solutions to the climate crisis at the H.eco Forum, which is scheduled to be held virtually on June 10 under the theme “We Face the Climate Clock.” – Ed. It was only last December when a South Korean company joined the global RE100 campaign -- a pledge to use 100 percent renewable power. The list i...

After decades of refusing to face up to climate change and focusing on economic growth at the expense of the Earth, this year could be a turning point in the global fight against global warming. The coronavirus pandemic was a huge wake-up call for humanity to rethink the way we live, creating an unprecedented opportunity to “build back better and greener.” “This year, we are finally at a starti...

For Golan, the Climate Clock is a reminder of what kind of the world his daughter will live in. The joy and hope he felt the moment she was born in 2018 turned into fear only a week later with the release of a special report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. In the report, scientists warned that there were only about 12 years left for the world to take action to limit global warm...

The Climate Clock was installed on the roof of Herald Corp.’s headquarters in central Seoul earlier this month, as part of a campaign to make climate change as relevant as possible to people’s lives and to send a direct visual warning that the Earth has a deadline. It is the world’s third monumental Climate Clock to be built in the world. The Climate Clock in Seoul shows that we have less than s...

The Climate Clock project, which involves a team of artists, scientists, engineers, designers and activists from around the globe, is an open-source project presenting a “critical window” for internationally-coordinated action to reduce emissions and avert climate disaster. According to the founders, the Climate Clocks -- some small, others large -- are being built temporarily or permanently at ...

Heeding their favorite stars’ calls, like-minded K-pop fans around the world have created their own platform --Kpop4Planet -- to cheer on the global movement for climate justice. Momentum for climate action seems to be building around the globe, with the ongoing coronavirus pandemic triggering soul-searching on human relationships with nature and other species. This year is also marked by signif...