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josesiem
Joined: 28 Jan 2006
Location: Bundang, Korea
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 Posted: Thu Nov 02, 2006 10:16 pm Post subject: Check out the Air Quality in Korea |
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This site has real-time monitoring of air quality. It's good for people who like to exercise outside and or have breathing problems.
The bottom line is if you want to have clean air, there's almost nowhere in Korea to find it. Even Gangwon-do has crap air compared to North America.
http://www.airkorea.or.kr/ |
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midian3x
Joined: 18 Sep 2006
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| Posted: Thu Nov 02, 2006 11:33 pm Post subject: |
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Wow that was interesting- colored dots on a map of Korea. 
Mind telling what the dots mean- not all of us can read the language.  |
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midian3x
Joined: 18 Sep 2006
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| Posted: Thu Nov 02, 2006 11:33 pm Post subject: |
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Wow that was interesting- colored dots on a map of Korea.
Mind telling what the dots mean- not all of us can read the language. |
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thebum
Joined: 09 Jan 2005
Location: North Korea
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| Posted: Thu Nov 02, 2006 11:34 pm Post subject: |
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| midian3x wrote: |
Wow that was interesting- colored dots on a map of Korea.
Mind telling what the dots mean- not all of us can read the language. |
learn it, dumbass!
just kidding. on the right side, if you click "English", guess what! the page comes up in English! |
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Son Deureo!
Joined: 30 Apr 2003
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| Posted: Fri Nov 03, 2006 1:52 am Post subject: |
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thebum
Joined: 09 Jan 2005
Location: North Korea
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| Posted: Fri Nov 03, 2006 1:59 am Post subject: |
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| looks like the site couldn't handle all the traffic generated from this thread. |
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Nambucaveman
Joined: 03 Aug 2006
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| Posted: Fri Nov 03, 2006 2:05 am Post subject: |
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Josesiem,
Great site, I didn't even know about that one.
NC
Edit: I just tried it at home and it is not working. It worked fine at work.
Last edited by Nambucaveman on Fri Nov 03, 2006 3:24 am; edited 2 times in total |
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VanIslander
Joined: 18 Aug 2003
Location: Geoje, Hadong, Tongyeong,... now in a small coastal island town outside Gyeongsangnamdo!
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| Posted: Fri Nov 03, 2006 2:08 am Post subject: |
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I'm sorry but...
The sky is clear blue and smells fresh every day.
Hereabouts. |
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SPINOZA
Joined: 10 Jun 2005
Location: $eoul
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| Posted: Sat Nov 04, 2006 11:23 pm Post subject: |
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It's an absolutely beautiful day in Seoul today - just come back from a lovely stroll, down by the river, with the magic in my music as I ate raw liver.
It's visibly beautiful and clear because it's windy. The wind blows all the smog away. The temperature is perfect - still mild enough for just a t-shirt.
You know what? I've stood on mountains in New Zealand (which surely has the cleanest air on Earth), I've been to NYC, I've been to Rome (notorious for air pollution), I'd lived in a somewhat rural and unpolluted area since 1991 prior to coming to Korea, and I now live in Seoul and have done since August 2005. My conclusion? Air is air. It's the same everywhere to me. I'm of normal-to-good health (maybe not mentally) so my view is the correct one and any deviations from this view are a reflection of oversensitivity or needing to.....GET A LIFE! |
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dogshed
Joined: 28 Apr 2006
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| Keep in mind that I spend most of my day breathing fumes from the heater in the middle of the teacher's office. I'm not sure if it's oil or kerosene. At home I breath fumes from my LPG heater and fumes from the oil tank in my entryway. I don't think it matters much if some machine on the top of the mountain thinks the air is clean or not. Then there is the mercury in the fish I ate for lunch. -Jeff |
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dogshed
Joined: 28 Apr 2006
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| Posted: Tue Nov 14, 2006 9:33 pm Post subject: Re: Check out the Air Quality in Korea |
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| josesiem wrote: |
This site has real-time monitoring of air quality. It's good for people who like to exercise outside and or have breathing problems.
The bottom line is if you want to have clean air, there's almost nowhere in Korea to find it. Even Gangwon-do has crap air compared to North America.
http://www.airkorea.or.kr/ |
That site is really cool. Not a lot of detectors in Gangwon-do. At the time I looked at it they all said it was good.
I found the english button. For those who haven't found it it's in a floating thing on the right and then it starts you over again and you have to click on the little map icon picture.
I figured out that if you select individual provinces and counties they will zoom in which makes it easier to see where the dots are. Putting your mouse on the dot gives you translucent data. Ok except when you get two translucent things on top of each other. |
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matthews_world
Joined: 15 Feb 2003
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Well, with the recent weather system having passed through Seoul, it's a pretty good day today.
Funny how smog and dust gets caught in Seoul's concrete jungle between the asphalt and the high-rise buildings.
Pretty soon those meteorologists will be paying more attention to xenon emissions as a result of the North's nuclear tests. |
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