Air pollution causes 14,000 additional deaths a year in Korea: report
Social affairsJun 12, 2017
About 14,000 people are dying prematurely every year in South Korea as a result of air pollution, a medical professor said Monday, citing a report by the US-based Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation.Cheong Hae-kwan, a professor at the Medical College of Seoul's Sungkyunkwan University, said during a seminar that the number of premature deaths in South Korea caused by air pollution was tallied at 13,703 in 2013 in the IHME report.This May 2017 file photo shows people looking at the landsc