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The Korean government is scrambling to promote energy conservation in the face of a fast-paced surge in oil prices. Related ministers along with Prime Minister Han Seung-soo decided at a meeting Sunday morning to require more than 800 public organizations to use an alternating driving day system starting next week.
The government has enforced the two-day driving system in the past to reduce traffic. Elevators, decorative lighting and temperature control systems will also be limited.
Prime Minister Han said that energy-saving is now a matter of survival rather than choice and that public officials should set an example of conservation with a goal of cutting down energy use by 10 percent.
Arirang News
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