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Environmentally-friendly policies have made a big difference on Korean society. In the past, industrialization and modernization were the top priorities - no matter how damaging they were to the environment. But nowadays, Mother Nature comes before development, and more and more people are making efforts to help save the environment in their daily lives. Let's take a look at how that shift in paradigm has affected the country.

It has been three years since the Korean government announced its plans to pursue low-carbon, green growth. In particular, Korea has made tremendous efforts in order to develop green technologies, and therefore it was able to make great strides towards sustainable improvement in green growth industry. Now its green tech power ranks one of the top ten among G-20 countries and is getting more recognized overseas. Let's review the year's green technologies.

As environmental preservation becomes increasingly important, more and more people are eco-friendly changing the way they travel. For example, eco-tourism is gaining more followers, transforming Korea's tourism industry. So let's take a look at how the way people spend their vacations has been changed in Korea this year.