Yellow Dust Warnings Issued for Most of South Korea This Week

The yellow dust season just seems to keep coming earlier and earlier for South Korea:

An electronic sign in central Seoul shows fine dust at a “very bad” level on Dec. 13, 2022. (Yonhap)

Yellow dust advisories were issued across South Korea except for South Gyeongsang Province on Tuesday, with the fine dust level in Seoul hitting the highest point so far this year, authorities said.

The yellow dust advisories were upgraded from “attention” to “caution,” the second highest in the environmental ministry’s four-notch warning system, in Seoul, Incheon, Gyeonggi Province surrounding the capital and Gangwon Province as of early Tuesday afternoon, the environment authorities said.

Yonhap

You can read more at the link, but yellow dust is a good reason for everyone to wear a mask.

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setnaffa
setnaffa
1 year ago

Making nice to Beijing will not encourage the Chinese to stop destroying the environment and causing the pollution that affects Korea.

Then again, nothing else will, either, short of a regime change to a form of government in China that actually wants to make the world a better pkace.

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