0 This comparison has helped us to understand whether the South Korean sector, including companies with an engineering and construction focus, are leading the way when it comes to the management and innovation of their sustainability performance, or whether they are being left behind. At the same time, South Korea has become an incubator for many innovative political, economic and technological strategies to address these problems.

Discover the universities when you click on one of them. As part of its Five-Year Plan, implemented in 2009, Korea committed 2% of its GDP through 2013 to create a knowledge and technological foundation to sustain a green growth economy for generations.

A recent study compared global leaders in the diversified industrial sector – that is to say engineering, construction and production companies, who manufacture a wide variety of products – with their counterparts in South Korea, a country widely respected for its industrial exports. endstream endobj 1387 0 obj <>/Metadata 127 0 R/Outlines 153 0 R/PageLayout/OneColumn/Pages 1375 0 R/StructTreeRoot 238 0 R/Type/Catalog>> endobj 1388 0 obj <>/ProcSet[/PDF/Text/ImageC]/XObject<>>>/Rotate 0/Type/Page>> endobj 1389 0 obj <>stream With their lack of broad sustainability strategies, South Korean firms, and indeed even a number of global leaders, would do well to take a leaf out of GE's book to link their eco-efficiency to their brand and customers, to make this leap into the realms of strong, innovative leadership. Importantly, this is incorporated into its business model. More than 60 years after the end of Korean War, there is still no peace treaty that would formally end the 1386 0 obj <> endobj Universities have admitted the importance of sustainable development and environmental care to secure the world for our future generations. © 2020 Guardian News & Media Limited or its affiliated companies.

The companies rated with investment grades are restricted to those that are already recognised as strong performers in sustainability.

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So what are the implications and how can they be addressed? Thank you to our friends at La Trobe International and La Trobe Asia for your assistance with the bureaucratic dimensions of the tour, and to CERES Global for their outstanding ongoing collaboration with the LTU Department of Politics and Philosophy on our short travel program subjects. Tour group with Bernhard Seliger from the Hanns Seidel Foundation. From 26th June – 9th July 2017 I co-facilitated an environment and sustainability-themed study tour to South Korea with undergraduate students from La Trobe University.