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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: Thu Oct 16, 2008 4:44 am Post subject: AIR POLLUTION ALERT: Seoul, Gyeonggido & Daegu RED DOTS |
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http://www.airkorea.or.kr/
http://www.airkorea.or.kr/airkorea/eng/index.jsp (in English)
Click on the map to see how the air quality is where you are.
There is A LOT of unhealthy air warnings, with particulates, nitrogen dioxide, ozone and sulphur dioxide levels.
Areas of Seoul and the surrounding province of Gyeonggido and down in the basin of Daegu are RED DOTted, meaning very unhealthy.
Yeosu on the south coast, Gangneung on the east coast and Jeju are all GREEN DOTted right now, probably because of the ocean winds clearing things up.
My town's dot is yellow for the first time in a month. Usually I'm assured by the blue and green dots.
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MrRogers
Joined: 29 Jun 2008
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| Posted: Thu Oct 16, 2008 4:57 am Post subject: |
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| with particulates, nitrogen dioxide, ozone and sulphur dioxide levels |
so this is coming from industrial pollution in China
incredibly bad and visible today in the mountains of the south |
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sojourner1
Joined: 17 Apr 2007
Location: Where meggi swim and 2 wheeled tractors go sput put chug alugg pug pug
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| Posted: Thu Oct 16, 2008 5:00 am Post subject: |
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I noticed in the last 2 days that the air is bad and it's very hazy. This hazyness is strange as it's not humid and breathing feels heavier than normal. I'm in rural Gangwondo and it's bad air these days. NE Asia is a cesspool of pollution due to manufacturing and undesirable weather patterns. I was hoping a nice big whirlwind of a typhoon would show up to clear it out, but it didn't this year so the air is much worse this Fall than it normally is.
How ye all doing up there in Seoul City? |
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Hyeon Een
Joined: 24 Jun 2005
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| Posted: Thu Oct 16, 2008 5:38 am Post subject: |
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How ye all doing up there in Seoul City? |
I'mfinethankyouandyou? |
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T-J
Joined: 10 Oct 2008
Location: Seoul EunpyungGu Yeonsinnae
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| Posted: Thu Oct 16, 2008 5:43 am Post subject: |
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| I like to be able to see my air, it reassures me that it is there. |
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Privateer
Joined: 31 Aug 2005
Location: Easy Street.
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| Posted: Thu Oct 16, 2008 6:13 am Post subject: |
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Just going on personal impressions, I'd say Seoul's air quality is better than it was when I first came here. It used to be you almost never saw blue skies and some days you couldn't see the opposite side of the Han.
The haziness tho', I believe comes from high levels of humidity rather than pollution. |
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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: Thu Oct 16, 2008 6:17 am Post subject: |
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| Privateer wrote: |
| Just going on personal impressions, I'd say Seoul's air quality is better than it was when I first came here. It used to be you almost never saw blue skies and some days you couldn't see the opposite side of the Han. |
let me guess: You first went to Seoul in the springtime? YELLOW SAND
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| The haziness tho', I believe comes from high levels of humidity rather than pollution. |
absolutely not true this time of year |
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RACETRAITOR
Joined: 24 Oct 2005
Location: Seoul, South Korea
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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: Thu Oct 16, 2008 2:36 pm Post subject: |
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Good morning. The air north of Daejon is awful this calm dawn and not particularly good anywhere on the peninsula.
Only Seogwipo has a blue dot for 'good' regarding particulates in the air. |
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cdninkorea
Joined: 27 Jan 2006
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Thu Oct 16, 2008 2:52 pm Post subject: |
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| Whatever doesn't kill me... |
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runlikegump
Joined: 05 Nov 2007
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Thu Oct 16, 2008 3:41 pm Post subject: |
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| Sucks to be one of the runners at the IAU World 24 Hour Ultramarathon Championships being held in Seoul this weekend. As if running in a loop on a track for a day wasn't hard enough... |
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DrOctagon
Joined: 11 Jun 2008
Location: Chicago
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| Posted: Thu Oct 16, 2008 3:55 pm Post subject: |
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| The air and weather are perferct where I'm at. |
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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: Thu Oct 16, 2008 4:08 pm Post subject: |
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| DrOctagon wrote: |
| The air and weather are perferct where I'm at. |
the sky is blue here too  (but yesterday there was haze on the horizon)
and I dread my upcoming shopping trip to Seoul |
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RACETRAITOR
Joined: 24 Oct 2005
Location: Seoul, South Korea
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| Posted: Thu Oct 16, 2008 6:04 pm Post subject: |
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| cdninkorea wrote: |
| Whatever doesn't kill me... |
...gives me chronic lung problems. |
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Crockpot2001
Joined: 01 Jul 2007
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| Posted: Thu Oct 16, 2008 6:30 pm Post subject: |
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| MrRogers wrote: |
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| with particulates, nitrogen dioxide, ozone and sulphur dioxide levels |
so this is coming from industrial pollution in China
incredibly bad and visible today in the mountains of the south |
Ramping up for Christmas? |
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