<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[DJ 정민우]]></title><description><![CDATA[DJ 정민우]]></description><link>https://www.danielchungco.com/blog</link><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2026 13:01:53 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://www.danielchungco.com/blog-feed.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title><![CDATA[The Climate Catastrophe in Our Closets: The Flood of Ultra-Cheap Clothing in the Age of Shein and Temu, and the Expansion of Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR)]]></title><description><![CDATA[I. Introduction: The Wave of Western "Used Clothing" Engulfing the Beach at Agbogbloshie, Ghana Agbogbloshie beach, on the outskirts of Accra, the capital of Ghana in West Africa. Once filled with blue water and fine sand, this place has become an immense "graveyard of clothes" and a "slaughterhouse of the ecosystem." Every week, containers packed with millions of discarded garments are imported from the developed world under the euphemism of "donations" or "secondhand clothing." More than...]]></description><link>https://www.danielchungco.com/post/the-climate-catastrophe-in-our-closets-the-flood-of-ultra-cheap-clothing-in-the-age-of-shein-and-te</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a57841b846d06bbe057a58b</guid><pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2026 15:00:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/95348a_61ef9fbf74404e1d99071f0ddbde88a2~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Daniel Jacob Chung</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Truth Outside the Closet: Where Do the Clothes We Throw Away Go?]]></title><description><![CDATA[The World Beyond the Donation Bin Dropping clothes into the used-clothing bin at the edge of the neighborhood, most people picture one of two outcomes: the garments will reach someone in need, or they will be unraveled thread by thread and reborn as new fabric. Sorting through the closet each time the season turns, setting aside what one no longer wears, carrying it down to the bin — this has become, for many of us, a familiar habit. The bins stand in every apartment complex, and each time we...]]></description><link>https://www.danielchungco.com/post/the-truth-outside-the-closet-where-do-the-clothes-we-throw-away-go</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a578326437e66e2012e887d</guid><pubDate>Sat, 27 Jun 2026 15:00:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/95348a_4763be79d62d46f1956b70619a8fb909~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Daniel Jacob Chung</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kicking Away the Ladder, or a Global Standard? The Other Side of the Carbon Border Tax and Korean Manufacturing's Strategy for Survival]]></title><description><![CDATA[I. Introduction: The "Carbon Receipt" Descending on Steel Ships Bound for the EU — When Carbon Became a Tariff A mega-container ship leaves the Port of Busan, crosses the Mediterranean, and makes for Rotterdam in the Netherlands, its holds carrying tens of thousands of tons of Korean hot-rolled coil and coated steel sheet. In the past, what such a vessel carried was only physical tonnage and a market price tag. But as of 2026, the moment this ship enters European Union (EU) waters, the...]]></description><link>https://www.danielchungco.com/post/kicking-away-the-ladder-or-a-global-standard-the-other-side-of-the-carbon-border-tax-and-korean-ma</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a578276437e66e2012e86cb</guid><pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2026 15:00:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/95348a_cf4f506ed2064330a2bfc89449efe25c~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Daniel Jacob Chung</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Invisible Climate Killer: The Surging "Digital Carbon Footprint" and the Case for Mandating Clean Power in Data Centers]]></title><description><![CDATA[I. Introduction: The Carbon Behind a Single ChatGPT Query — The Physical Smokestack Hidden Within the Illusion of the Virtual World When we lightly tap a smartphone screen to put a question to ChatGPT, or stream an ultra-high-definition (UHD) video on the commute home, no smoke or soot rises before our eyes. The consumption and exchange of information unfolding in real time at our fingertips feels utterly clean, harmless, immaculate. Indeed, for decades humanity has treated the rise of...]]></description><link>https://www.danielchungco.com/post/the-invisible-climate-killer-the-surging-digital-carbon-footprint-and-the-case-for-mandating-clea</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a57816d437e66e2012e8469</guid><pubDate>Sat, 20 Jun 2026 15:00:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/95348a_875b0c06ff4d4fa7a731fb077df5ebb0~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Daniel Jacob Chung</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wind Turbines at a Standstill: The Grid Paradox Wrought by the Expansion of Solar and Wind, and Public Energy Storage Systems]]></title><description><![CDATA[I. Introduction: The Days When the Sun Shines Too Brightly and Electricity Must Be Thrown Away — Curtailment on the Ground in Jeju and Honam A spring afternoon on the western coast of Jeju Island, where the wind gusts hard and sunlight blazes dazzlingly across the land. Dozens of wind turbines that ought to be spinning their enormous blades and generating power at full strength stand motionless instead, as though time itself had stopped. It is not mechanical failure, nor maintenance. Because...]]></description><link>https://www.danielchungco.com/post/wind-turbines-at-a-standstill-the-grid-paradox-wrought-by-the-expansion-of-solar-and-wind-and-publ</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a578068ebe12eb9f28d03f4</guid><pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2026 15:00:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/95348a_1a320e351da749f4a17a1aa6145802fd~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Daniel Jacob Chung</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Net-Zero Myth: Why Corporate Carbon-Neutrality Pledges Are So Hard to BelieveI. Introduction: The Glittering Promise of "Carbon Neutrality by 2050" — The Paradox of a Greenhouse-Gas Surge Conceal]]></title><description><![CDATA[I. Introduction: The Glittering Promise of "Carbon Neutrality by 2050" — The Paradox of a Greenhouse-Gas Surge Concealed Behind a Rosy Future Open the sustainability report or ESG brochure of virtually any major global corporation today, and you will encounter, without exception, one polished sentence: the sweeping declaration that the company "will achieve Net-Zero by 2050." From airlines to oil refiners, from global fashion brands to cutting-edge Big Tech firms, companies of every...]]></description><link>https://www.danielchungco.com/post/the-net-zero-myth-why-corporate-carbon-neutrality-pledges-are-so-hard-to-believei-introduction-th</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a577fa2cf40315cb3326679</guid><pubDate>Fri, 05 Jun 2026 15:00:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/95348a_a069f3904c2e41a8a34a177e5a5c48e9~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Daniel Jacob Chung</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[MOF Porous Materials Expected to Enable Carbon Dioxide Capture]]></title><description><![CDATA[https://m.dongascience.com/news.php?idx=69786 "Those who, during the preceding year, have conferred the greatest benefit to humankind." This sentence, left in Alfred Nobel's will in 1895, has served as the standard for the Nobel Prize ever since. Beginning in 1901, the prize has gone to researchers who have improved human lives and contributed to scientific progress. Marie Curie's research on radiation laid the groundwork for cancer treatment, opening the possibility of conquering the...]]></description><link>https://www.danielchungco.com/post/__tbu</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6947d16e6cebe7424b30d00f</guid><pubDate>Fri, 29 May 2026 15:00:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/95348a_5317eed1ad2d4614aa7cfe2cc34ec53a~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Daniel Jacob Chung</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[COP 30 ]]></title><description><![CDATA[https://unfccc.int/cop30 Simon Stiell closing speech: “COP30 showed that climate cooperation is alive and kicking, keeping humanity in the fight for a livable planet”]]></description><link>https://www.danielchungco.com/post/cop-30</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a1a8b2b0d3cce725ea69356</guid><pubDate>Sat, 18 Apr 2026 15:00:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/11062b_bc7f7304cbb0434385cb2cd328a54b14~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Daniel Jacob Chung</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[COP30 OverviewDates: November 10–21, 2025Location: Belém, Brazil]]></title><description><![CDATA[https://forourclimate.org/ko/newsroom/1166 The 30th Conference of the Parties since the first meeting was held in Berlin in 1995, and the 10th anniversary of the 2015 Paris Agreement, which committed to limiting the rise in global average temperature to below 2°C above pre-industrial levels while pursuing a 1.5°C target. True to its designation as the "Amazon COP," discussions formally got underway on forest conservation, the transition away from fossil fuels, climate finance, and the need to...]]></description><link>https://www.danielchungco.com/post/cop30-overviewdates-november-10-21-2025location-bel%C3%A9m-brazil</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a1a8beec314d04636c1abb9</guid><pubDate>Sat, 14 Mar 2026 15:00:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/95348a_33c0ae336fe84a918b6f15b01f25d162~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Daniel Jacob Chung</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Table of Death and Factory Farming: The Concealed Truth of Methane Emissions and the Imperative of a "Meat Environmental Tax"]]></title><description><![CDATA[I. Introduction: The Climate Chronicle Contained in a Single Cut of Red Meat — The Brutal Ecological Slaughterhouse Hidden Behind the Sanctuary of the Dinner Table Galbi, samgyeopsal, golden-fried chicken — the dishes that fill our tables each evening in abundance and splendor. Behind this dazzling cut of meat, taken as a symbol of the democratization of protein and of the abundance of the modern diet, lies hidden a vast and brutal chronicle of climate destruction, one that humanity strains...]]></description><link>https://www.danielchungco.com/post/the-table-of-death-and-factory-farming-the-concealed-truth-of-methane-emissions-and-the-imperative</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a578e5fc8cca052ffcbacc7</guid><pubDate>Wed, 11 Feb 2026 15:00:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/95348a_30948dea5ac041458bd1c1fd9651871e~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_839,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Daniel Jacob Chung</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why Plastic Recycling Cannot Solve Our Environmental Problem: Beyond the Fiction of Recycling, Toward a Society That Cuts Production and Consumption at the Source]]></title><description><![CDATA[I. Introduction: The Moral Comfort of Sorting, and the Illusion of Modern Society There are citizens who, on the way home each evening, rinse clean the countless plastic containers their households generate and peel away the labels. This finicky ritual gives each individual a deep moral reassurance that they have contributed to the health of the planet. Over the past several decades, the fine-grained sorting system and resource-circulation culture that South Korea has built have settled into...]]></description><link>https://www.danielchungco.com/post/why-plastic-recycling-cannot-solve-our-environmental-problem-beyond-the-fiction-of-recycling-towar</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a578ef7846d06bbe057c196</guid><pubDate>Mon, 19 Jan 2026 15:00:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/95348a_7dcd3672b9af479ca856353c81b781f4~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_750,h_578,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Daniel Jacob Chung</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[A New Treatment Is Coming After A Decade CRISPR Blinks]]></title><description><![CDATA[(Source: https://m.dongascience.com/news.php?idx=55116) Caribou Biosciences, an American biotechnology company, is conducting research to find a way to effectively attack cancer cells by correcting the genes of immune cells with CRISPR gene scissors. CRISPR gene editing technology is classified as the third generation of gene editing technology that cuts and pastes DNA bases containing life information. Cancer treatment research developed by the company is evaluated as a breakthrough and new...]]></description><link>https://www.danielchungco.com/post/a-new-treatment-is-coming-after-a-decade-crispr-blinks</link><guid isPermaLink="false">63141c9f5ead4cfa7b535c1a</guid><pubDate>Sat, 25 Oct 2025 03:44:30 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/95348a_79796a1616944bcbb2b073d015bacd9b~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_680,h_454,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Daniel Jacob Chung</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Betrayal of Recycling: Why Korea's Plastic Recycling Rate Isn't What the Numbers Say]]></title><description><![CDATA[I. Introduction: The Reassurance of Sorting — The Hollow Shell of Resource Circulation Concealed by Our Everyday Diligence, and the Illusion We Live By There are citizens who, on the way home each evening or on weekend mornings, rinse their PET bottles clean and set them out to dry, carefully peel away the labels with a knife, meticulously separate the clear containers from the opaque ones, and deposit them in the sorting bin. When collection day arrives at the apartment complex, residents...]]></description><link>https://www.danielchungco.com/post/the-betrayal-of-recycling-why-korea-s-plastic-recycling-rate-isn-t-what-the-numbers-say</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a578ca1c8cca052ffcba853</guid><pubDate>Tue, 12 Aug 2025 15:00:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/95348a_2df318ba716d4d639038cdd60ab5827e~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Daniel Jacob Chung</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Would Chlamydomonas reinhardtii Become Heroic Phytoplankton? ]]></title><description><![CDATA[Since this spring, my friend who is majoring in environmental science and I have been conducting research on the effects of phytoplankton on the environment. Fortunately, I am connected with a professor who has a lot of experience in teaching thesis in the field of environment and I am receiving advice. The abstract of her research paper was also presented as a poster at the 11th international conference in Bangkok, Thailand. However, my curiosity about the proliferation of phytoplankton...]]></description><link>https://www.danielchungco.com/post/would-chlamydomonas-reinhardtii-become-heroic-phytoplankton</link><guid isPermaLink="false">63142bb2a3754fa334c18028</guid><pubDate>Sat, 26 Jul 2025 15:00:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/95348a_5fd8a11dd8fd4cd7939ee36ee3a3e827~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Daniel Jacob Chung</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Betrayal of Paper Straws and Tote Bags: The Evolution of Market-Distorting Greenwashing and a Punitive Institutional Framework]]></title><description><![CDATA[I. Introduction: The Paradox Revealed by the Starbucks Reusable Cup Frenzy — A Society That Makes More Plastic in Order to Reduce Plastic In the autumn of 2021, the global coffee chain Starbucks ran an event commemorating its fiftieth anniversary, offering free "reusable cups" to customers who purchased a drink at its stores nationwide. From early in the morning, crowds thronged the storefronts to claim a cup, and the resulting frenzy stretched waiting times to several hours. Starbucks...]]></description><link>https://www.danielchungco.com/post/the-betrayal-of-paper-straws-and-tote-bags-the-evolution-of-market-distorting-greenwashing-and-a-pu</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a578dbfcf40315cb33289a1</guid><pubDate>Thu, 12 Jun 2025 15:00:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/95348a_6e7456a7ac294bfa8c231f3db1550579~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Daniel Jacob Chung</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Can plastic eating super-enzymes solve our destructive plastic problem?]]></title><description><![CDATA[source : https://www.cas.org/resource/blog/plastic-eating-enzymes Written by Rumiana Tenchov (Information Scientist, CAS) The production of cheap, durable and adaptable plastics has exploded in the last few decades as they infiltrate every part of our lives; but this once desirable polymer has a dark side. Plastics may take hundreds of years to degrade and with production at astronomic levels (globally over 350 million tons each year), plastic pollution is one of the most pressing...]]></description><link>https://www.danielchungco.com/post/can-plastic-eating-super-enzymes-solve-our-destructive-plastic-problem</link><guid isPermaLink="false">631426046ba94a5a1b090672</guid><pubDate>Sat, 17 May 2025 15:00:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/95348a_26ed6e8290cc4fcc9a46a49e9b7c27e4~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Daniel Jacob Chung</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Can microorganisms solve our plastic waste problem?]]></title><description><![CDATA[Recycling plastics and other synthetic materials is often costly and not always possible. Researchers have now found an enzyme that decomposes PET in just hours and allows new plastic bottles to be profitably produced. source: https://www.dw.com/en/can-microorganisms-solve-our-plastic-waste-problem/a-53258985 Researchers at the University of Portsmouth in the United Kingdom have examined around 100,000 different microorganisms and finally found what they were looking for in a pile of leaves....]]></description><link>https://www.danielchungco.com/post/can-microorganisms-solve-our-plastic-waste-problem</link><guid isPermaLink="false">631424165613500173a0f34d</guid><pubDate>Sat, 03 May 2025 15:00:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/95348a_33c0ae336fe84a918b6f15b01f25d162~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Daniel Jacob Chung</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[The penguin is disappearing]]></title><description><![CDATA[On April 25th, <World Penguin Day> was designated. It is said that the Adelie penguin has finished breeding and the Antarctic is moving north before winter. When it comes to polar animals, the first thing that comes to mind is the polar bear and the penguin. Many NGOs and media promoted that polar bears are on the verge of extinction due to global warming. There is. As global warming progresses, the average air temperature in Antarctica has risen by about 3-4 degrees over the past 50 years,...]]></description><link>https://www.danielchungco.com/post/the-penguin-is-disappearing</link><guid isPermaLink="false">608c175f4b44ec00153cbf73</guid><pubDate>Sun, 27 Apr 2025 14:43:38 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/575102b03f83400c87d0668aeef0a64a.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_750,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Daniel Jacob Chung</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Carbon Emissions and Tree Planting]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Government of Korea announced in January that it would absorb 34 million tons of carbon by planting 3 billion trees for 30 years by 2050. This was criticized as “a logging policy under the guise of carbon neutrality”. Why is the Korean Government's tree planting plan gaining distrust? ✔The Foresty and Planting Plan(?) The national greenhouse gas reduction target(NDC) by 2030, submitted to the United Nations by the government at the end of 2020, is said to be 173.02 million tons....]]></description><link>https://www.danielchungco.com/post/%ED%83%84%EC%86%8C%EB%B0%B0%EC%B6%9C%EB%9F%89%EA%B3%BC-%EB%82%98%EB%AC%B4%EC%8B%AC%EA%B8%B0</link><guid isPermaLink="false">60d942f356895400150cbe7c</guid><pubDate>Sat, 12 Apr 2025 15:00:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/11062b_a8391ad2a7794fbf81845a0d8b6fb89a~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Daniel Jacob Chung</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reduced human activity vs wildlife ]]></title><description><![CDATA[This is an excerpt and summary of contents from online media such as BBC News.    A few years ago, a British team of researchers began to study how the lockdown due to the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) has affected wildlife.    Academia calls this large-scale temporary slowdown in human activity an 'anthro-pause', which has important implications for other species on Earth.    Measuring the impact of a slowdown in human activity, the researchers say, could help teach "how to share an...]]></description><link>https://www.danielchungco.com/post/%EC%BD%94%EB%A1%9C%EB%82%98-19-%EC%98%81%ED%96%A5-%EC%9D%B8%EB%A5%98-%ED%99%9C%EB%8F%99%EA%B0%90%EC%86%8C-vs-%EC%95%BC%EC%83%9D%EB%8F%99%EB%AC%BC</link><guid isPermaLink="false">60d9425e5866c90016a6d05b</guid><pubDate>Sat, 22 Feb 2025 15:00:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/95348a_4a6bdff31f1b48eb9c8f794aaccea69c~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Daniel Jacob Chung</dc:creator></item></channel></rss>