Bi-Weekly Learning Journal #5

[Sarah Kwon]

Because me and Kevin are science majors, we learned about particulate matter and environmental issues in Korea. I've been wanting to learn about this subject for a while because I know Korea has some serious environmental problems regarding their air quality. Evelyn talked about yellow dust in Korea and showed us a website that talked about the different sizes of particulate matter. This was a difficult subject because all of the scientific articles were in Korean. There were a lot of figures on the webpage so that helped me to understand the material. I actually learned a lot about particulate matter in a science class that I was currently taking, so it was interesting to see it taught in Korean. Additionally, when I went to Korea last time, I experienced some of the yellow dust. I had to wear a mask out in public because I was not used to it. It really made me realize how important air quality is and that we need to do something to reduce the amount of pollution we are putting out into the environment.