Public Disclosure of Environmental Violations in the Republic of Korea
Since 1989, environmental authorities of the Republic of Korea have published on a monthly basis a list of enterprises violating the country's environmental rules and regulations. This may be the longest environmental public disclosure program...
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| Format: | Policy Research Working Paper |
| Language: | English en_US |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2014
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2003/08/2507712/public-disclosure-environmental-violations-republic-korea http://hdl.handle.net/10986/18132 |
| Summary: | Since 1989, environmental authorities of
the Republic of Korea have published on a monthly basis a
list of enterprises violating the country's
environmental rules and regulations. This may be the longest
environmental public disclosure program currently in
existence. Over the period 1993-2001 in excess of 7,000
violations have been recorded in these monthly violation
lists, involving more than 3,400 different companies. In
this paper, the authors provide a comprehensive descriptive
analysis of this dataset. Results suggest that the news
media have given an important, though perhaps declining
coverage, to the violation lists, with a focus on publicly
traded companies, failures to operate pollution abatement
equipment, and prosecutions. |
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