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South Korea is located in the south of north Korean which is in the northeast Asian, And all the east, the south and the west sides face the sea. It borders on China, Russia and North Korea. The north region is temperate monsoon climate, and the south is subtropical climate. It lacks of natural resource, so the main industrial raw material depend on import. It covers 97 thousand square kilometres. It had a population of 49.7 million and domestic production the gross (GDP) of USD 1116 billion in 2011. Through the evaluation of global environment competitiveness, we can know that the environment competitiveness index of South Korea ranks at 64 among 133 countries.
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South Korea is located in the south of Korean Peninsula which is in the northeast Asian. Its east, south and west sides face the sea. It borders on North Korea. The north region is temperate monsoon climate, and the south is subtropical climate. It lacks of natural resource, so the main industrial raw material depend on import. It covers 97 thousand square kilometres. It had a population of 49.7 million and domestic production the gross (GDP) of USD 1116 billion in 2011. Through the evaluation of global environment competitiveness, we can know that the environment competitiveness index of South Korea ranks at 64 among 133 countries. | Score: 50.26 |
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Jianping, L., Minrong, L., Jinnan, W., Jianjian, L., Hongwen, S., Maoxing, H. (2014). Report on the Global Environment Competitiveness of South Korea. In: Jianping, L., Minrong, L., Jinnan, W., Jianjian, L., Hongwen, S., Maoxing, H. (eds) Report on Global Environmental Competitiveness (2013). Current Chinese Economic Report Series. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-54678-5_78
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