CNN 한국의 녹색 성장

 

Seoul, South Korea fast, the most wired city on earth. But take a closer look. Closer. Even closer. And you’re seeing the country’s green future. LED lights, more energy efficient, are popping up all over Seoul. It’s just one part of Korea’s so-called green new deal. Post war South Korea’s economy was based on grow at any cost.  The Korean president Lee Myung-bak pledged the UN that a green based economy will be his nation’s ticket to prosperity. This strategy is the most effective way to address global climate change and at the same time to overcome the economic crisis.

 

In a comprehensive overhaul of its economy, the government says 2% of its gross domestic product over the next five years will go toward the green sector. Traditional greening like a nationwide bike network, solar and wind energy, lowering oil dependence by promoting gas efficient cars, and backing daylight savings, so workers go home earlier and office buildings go dark sooner.

 

But e-Solutions growing in green technology is where Korea sees its biggest potential. The country plans to build a nationwide Next-Gen Internet ten times faster than traditional broadband, so computers use less energy. High-tech companies will get incentives to produce energy solutions like Samsung’s low carbon green memory and a solar powered mobile phone.

 

And remember those LED bulbs? Asking companies to pump out more of them from the TV screen to the laptop to the bulbs that light up the indoors. These lights don’t look very different, but they are. This entire office is lit by LEDs. And the government promises by the end of this year every single governmental office in Korea will also be lit by LEDs. “We are going to contribute to the global community by action, not talk.”

 

But the talk is exactly what the citizen’s movement for environmental justice calls a current plan. Park Yong Shin says it calls for too much money into construction on the four rivers in Seoul. The green growth plan that we have now is the same large scale construction used to revive the economy in the 60s and 70s, says Park. But the green growth committee brushes off that criticism saying only 20% of the budget goes to waterway construction. And the rest toward redefining the economy based on the green sector. It’s a big plan from a small, yet ambitious country that says as quickly Seoul became the most wired in the world, it can also become the greenest.

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