Community and Environmental Health Issues in South Korea: Report

This report examines the environmental health situation in South Korea, focusing on the impact of industrialization and economic development on the environment. It highlights the historical context of environmental concerns, including the prioritization of economic growth over environmental protection in the 1970s. The report discusses the positive effects of government regulations, such as green belts and emission restrictions, on air quality. It also addresses the challenges of nuclear waste disposal and water pollution. Furthermore, the report outlines the government's investments in clean energy initiatives, such as wind farms and clean technology businesses, and its commitment to the clean energy market. The report also references the country's stance on nuclear energy and its role in the green energy sector. Overall, the report provides an overview of the environmental health issues, government efforts, and future directions in South Korea.

RUNNING HEAD: Community and Its Environmental Health Issues
COMMUNITY AND ITS ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH ISSUES

Community and Its Environmental Health Issues 1
The investigation has been made on the usefulness of the environmental health indicators for the
evaluation of the environmental health in Korea. It has been also analyzed that there has been an
association between an environmental pollution with health outcomes by integrating its
indicators into several kinds of measure. (Wolch, J. R,2014)
Manufacturing industries and the industries in the South Korea had been taking off in the year
1970s under the dictator park Chun-hee. Due to these issues protection of the ecosystem and the
issues related to the environment has become the second priority for the economic development.
(Green, G. P.,2015)
As it has become a developed economy all over the world the priorities of the country have been
changed and the government of South Korea has passed some laws for tackling the issues of the
environment. Due to these laws, green belts and the emission restrictions have markedly
improved the quality of the environment and there was also the improvement in the air pollution.
As in South Korea, the air pollution was one the major problem as the dust used to blow due to
an expansion of the deserts in China. As the South Korea was the world's fifth largest user the
nuclear power and it was the one which has created a safe place by using it for disposing of the
nuclear waste material. It has been analyzed that 70 per cent of the nuclear waste in South Korea
has been recently found in the storage pools. (Heacock, M,2016)
If we talk about the water pollution of South Korea then the quality of the water there is being
acceptable as they use to boil the water or filter their tap water before using. Pollution from the
sewage and the sources of industries has harmed some of the coastal and the river ecosystems.
(Greenberg, A. J,2017)

Community and Its Environmental Health Issues 2
Over the five years, the government of the South Korea has made an enormous push for cleaning
and improving its environmental issues. In the year 2010, they invested approximately 8.2 billion
dollars for the 2,500 MW wind farm. In the year 2011, the government introduced a plan for
producing the millions of job for the clean energy and for grabbing the 18 per cent of the global
clean energy market by the year 2030. In the year 2014, the government has pledged over the 1.9
billion dollars for creating the six clean energy-related businesses. All the emphasis was on the
clean technology seems to have an effect on the report of the year 2015 on the report of United
nations climate change conference that was found in South Korea among the world leaders for
the clean technology patents combined with the united states, European Union, japan and the
Germany. (Yigitcanlar,2014)
The government has put out some of the signals about the decoupling nuclear energy from the
notion of the Green Energy and the observers of South Korea are not expecting to distance
themselves from the nuclear power plants in the near future.

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