• 분석과 대안
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• 제6권1호
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• pp.163-194
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• 2022

A transboundary environmental problem refers to an environmental problem that goes beyond a country's territory and damages neighboring countries. It is a difficult problem because, basically, it is a natural, rather than intentional, effect, and it is extremely hard to make a scientific consensus on the cause-effect relations between upstream and downstream nations. Air pollution, especially PM 2.5 and PM 10, is one of the typical cases of transboundary environmental problems in the Northeast Asia. This paper analyzes the constraints of environmental cooperation between China and South Korea to address transboundary air pollution issue. It argues that lack of trust and ideological hostility, rather than, scientific uncertainty, is the biggest obstacle for effective cooperation, and these hostile discourses and ideas are mostly generated by media in the downstream nation, the South Korea. In order to identify how South Korean media frames this issue, this paper searched newspaper articles in the six representative South Korean newspapers during the period of 2014 and 2020, and analyzed about 2,000 articles selected. It finds that South Korean media has framed the transboundary air pollution as a China bashing and related domestic political cleavage issue, while it neglects to show the cooperation attempts that the two countries have made to date. Also, while the media focuses on China hate frame, it has never reported the Chinese government's domestic policies to reduce air pollution and their results. Media's overuse of hate and blame frames not only has disrupted trust building but also it will delay a possible turning point of environmental cooperation between the two countries in the future.

• 한국대기환경학회지
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• 제9권4호
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• pp.329-339
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• 1993

Due to the global-convection currents, transboundary transport of air pollutants is widely observed in many regions of the world. This study was carried out to investigate the pattern of long-range transport of air pollutants in North East Asia, especially the impact of air pollutants originated in China and Japan on the air quality in Korea. From the meteorological data at the 850 mb surface from May 1986 through April 1987 at 54 obsevation stations in the North East Asia region, the backward and forward trajectories were calculated using interpolation method. And the contributions of pollution sources in neighbor countries to the air quality in Korea were analyzed. It was concluded that air pollution in China had a great influence on the air quality in Korea throughout the year : it could be transported to Korea just within 2 or 3 days most of the time. The trajectory analysis showed that pollution sources in Beijing. Liaoning Province, and Shandong Province, the most heavily industrialized areas in China., were the most influential for the air quality in Korea except for summer season. Durnig summer season, the air pollution in Shanhai and Japan could have moer influence on Korea. Such transboundary transport of air pollutants necessitate international cowork and cooperation in the region of North East Asia.

• 환경위생공학
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• 제8권1호
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• pp.49-67
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• 1993

Rapid economic development and increase of energy consumption in east Asia including China, Korea and Japan has arisen a concern in air pollution problems in local and regional scale. Specially, China is accomplishing a success in continuous economic growth, while increasing energy consumption has caused a load to air quality because major energy source is coal which is relatively unfavorable in terms of air pollution. In this article, discussions have been given with the purpose of gaining some insight into the situation of air pollutant sources, air quality in China and transboundary transport of air pollutants in this area. Very limited information has caused insufficient survey, however, regional cooperation in environmental conservation may hopefully improve the air quality in this area.

• Environmental Sciences Bulletin of The Korean Environmental Sciences Society
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• 제4권2호
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• pp.111-116
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• 2000

Transboundary air pollution has recently become an area of increasing scientific interest and political concern as countries are receiving air pollutants from their neighbors. In order to gain a better understanding of the long-range transport processes of air pollutants and the source-receptor relationships among neighboring countries, an atmospheric transport model coupled with a RAMS(Regional Atmospheric Modeling System) model was applied to the East Asia region during the entire month of January 1993. The scalar transport option of the RAMS model was used to calculate special atmospheric constituents such as trace gases or aerosols. The sulfate production in clouds and rainwater and its removal processes by dry and wet deposition were considered. The sulfate budget from source regions to receptor regions was estimated by analysing the source-receptor relationships. When a specific receptor site revealed a sulfate value higher than the sulfate concentration based on its own source origin, this was taken to indicate long-range transport from another source region. The contribution ratio from various source region was calculated. The contribution ratio of dry and wet deposition was higher on the main continent of the East region. Furthermore, the high deposition amounts were identified on the west coast of Korea and the East China Sea.

• 한국대기환경학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국대기환경학회 2010년도 춘계학술대회 논문집
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• pp.139-140
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• 2010

• 자원ㆍ환경경제연구
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• 제26권1호
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• pp.57-83
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• 2017

미세먼지는 발생원이 매우 다양하며 발생 메카니즘이 복잡하여 아직 일본에서도 자동차 등 이동배출원을 제외하고는 미세먼지 발생량에대한 정확한 인벤토리의 정비가 이루어지지 못하고 있어서 효과적인 대책이 매우 어려운 상황이다. 따라서 정부기관과 연구자들이 국민건강 관리를 위한 매뉴얼 작성과 함께 국가적인 인벤토리 정비를 위한 노력을 기울이고 있다. 미세먼지 대책을 보다 어렵게하는 것은 중국 등 국외로부터 날아오는 미세먼지 문제이다. 일본은 과거 고도성장기에 격심 했던 대기오염문제를 지방자치단체들이 지역특성에 맞는 고유의 정책설계 등으로 효과적으로 대응했던 경험이 있어서 이러한 경험을 중국의 자치 단체에 전수해 주는 중일 도시간 미세먼지 방지에관한 협력사업을 전개하고 있다. 기업들은 이와 관련한 설비기자재와 기술을 중국에 판매하는 등 비지니스 기회를 얻고 있다. 한중일을 중심으로 한 동아시아 지역은 환경 및 에너지 측면에서 공동체적인 운명 하에 있다. 한중일 3국이 대기환경 및 기후변화문제 해결을 위한 법적효력이 있는 기구를 창설하여 정부간 정책협력과 도시간 및 기업간 교류가 크게 진전될 경우 미세먼지 문제 해결뿐만 아니라 향후 이 지역의 평화와 지역통합에도 기여할 것으로 본다.

• 한국대기환경학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국대기환경학회 2005년도 추계학술대회 논문집
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• pp.364-365
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• 2005

• 한국대기환경학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국대기환경학회 2008년도 춘계학술대회 논문집
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• pp.657-659
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• 2008

• 한국대기환경학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국대기환경학회 2004년도 춘계학술대회 논문집
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• pp.221-221
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• 2004

• 한국대기환경학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국대기환경학회 2004년도 추계학술대회 논문집
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• pp.133-134
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• 2004