On May 3-9th, 2026, a delegation from Uzbekistan participated in a knowledge exchange to South Korea on the margins of Korea Green Innovation Days (KGID 2026).
Delegates visited four Korean institutions, each offering varying degrees of relevance to Uzbekistan's industrial air quality (AQ) agenda, including:
- Sudokwon Landfill Site Management Corporation (SLC)
- Seoul Institute for Health and Environment (SIHE)
- Korea Environment Corporation (K-ECO)
- National Institute of Environmental Research (NIER)
SLC operates one of the world's largest landfills, repurposed as a resource circulation hub with landfill gas capture and green space reclamation — useful for integrated environmental monitoring insights, though less directly applicable to the grant's industrial AQ focus.
SIHE demonstrated Seoul's success in halving PM2.5 concentrations over two decades through sustained policy, fleet electrification, and real-time monitoring — valuable for AQ governance lessons, though primarily urban rather than industrial in focus.
K-ECO's CleanSYS platform provides real-time stack emission monitoring covering over 76% of Korea's industrial emissions, offering a scalable model for Uzbekistan's large industrial emitters; its GreenLink system extends IoT-based compliance monitoring to smaller facilities.
NIER showcased an advanced suite of industrial monitoring technologies — including DIAL remote sensing for diffuse emissions, mobile heavy metal monitoring, mass spectrometry for VOC analysis, and drone-based sensors — all well-suited to characterizing and tracking industrial pollution sources in Uzbekistan.
Delegates also participated in Bilateral meetings with several Korean organizations including Korea Environmental Industry and Technology Institute (KEITI), Korea Forestry Promotion Institute (KOFPI), and Korea Meteorological Institute (KMI) where they explored modalities for government-to-government cooperation and discussed priorities areas for potential collaboration.