2009July16: South Korea will invest about $84.5 billion in green industries, including hybrid vehicles, light-emitting diodes, and solar batteries, over the next five years (Washington Post, 2009).
Reference: Washington Post http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/07/15/AR2009071503731.html
Image Description: Seoraksan, Gangwon-do, South Korea. Photo by Juliana Ng, 2005Oct9. Image Location: Wikimedia Commons http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Korea_Seoraksan.jpg Image Permission: This file is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 License.
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