A man throws a bottle for his dog before the Han river in Seoul yesterday. South Korea is bracing for days of poor air quality as rising seasonal temperatures and an unfavourable wind direction threatens to compound local pollution, resulting in government issued ‘fine dust’ warnings with air quality monitoring websites reporting PM 2.5 levels of over 200, or ‘unhealthy’ u2013 eight times higher than the guideline limit for 24-hour exposure advised by the World Health Organisation (WHO).
A man throws a bottle for his dog before the Han river in Seoul yesterday. South Korea is bracing for days of poor air quality as rising seasonal temperatures and an unfavourable wind direction threatens to compound local pollution, resulting in government issued ‘fine dust’ warnings with air quality monitoring websites reporting PM 2.5 levels of over 200, or ‘unhealthy’ – eight times higher than the guideline limit for 24-hour exposure advised by the World Health Organisation (WHO).