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measurement is conducted every two years on facilities subject to indoor air quality
management, and radon reduction facilities are to be installed when any facility
exceeds the standards.
To improve the environment in hazardous working sites, the MND identifies
installations exceeding the environmental standards among the 2,500 installations
performing plating and maintenance works for ammunition depots through annual
working environment assessments and working environment surveys conducted
every f ve years. As for the removal of hazardous materials, local exhaust ventilation
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systems, ventilators, and dust collectors are installed in facilities that exceed
the environmental standards. In addition, if servicemembers take special health
examinations on request and health issues are discovered, the MND provides support
by replacing the work personnel with a substitute and if needed providing support
related to hospitalization.

Reducing Particulate Matter and Faced with the increase of high-density
Implementing a Comprehensive fine particulate matter, the MND esta-
Management Plan blished the Comprehensive Fine Particle
Management Plan in 2018 to align its

policies with those of the government and protect the health of servicemembers. At
present, the MND has identified and promoted 13 tasks in two areas–reduction of
particulate matter (PM) emission and unit management–in the military.
As a key measure in the area of unit management, the MND distributed anti-PM
masks in 2020 for 50 days based on the number of days announced as "bad" (PM-
2.5) in the annual PM forecast. Since the first installation of air purifiers in ROK
Army training centers in 2018, the MND increased the number of air purif ers with
additional installations at recruitment training centers, in command and control
rooms, barracks dormitories, and hospital wards in each service in 2019. More
purifiers were installed in reserve military dormitories, restaurants, and lecture
rooms at educational institutions the following year.
In 2019, as a key measure in the area of reducing PM emissions in the military, the
MND completed the replacement of old diesel vehicles, such as commercial jeep,
buses, and trucks registered before 2005. To increase the supply of eco-friendly
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• Local exhaust ventilation
system: processes or higher when purchasing passenger cars. Moreover, by 2028, the MND aims to
dusts, gas, and vapors
produced acquire hybrid vehicles accounting for 50% of passenger cars in the military and
• Dust collector: collects
and removes solid or plans to expand the supply of compressed natural gas (CNG) and electric vehicles
liquid particles floating in
the air through a pilot project.

2020 Defense White Paper