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China has clean air, but at what cost?
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this post was submitted on 14 Jan 2026
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A great policy I wish they'd adopt here in Korea.
Poor South Koreans also use charcoal briquettes to heat their homes. Seoul air looks like Beijing in the winter. It's gross, a brownish-yellowish-grayish haze
I was just in Shanghai a week ago, and the air quality was similarly gross, so I guess this was only for Beijing?
When I was living there, you could taste the air pollution. The 70th anniversary parade was on a day with AQI around 300. You could notice it on the TV broadcast