National Public Radio: Minhae Kim didn't check air pollution levels before bringing her one-year-old to Seoul's Yongsan Family Park.
Perhaps she should have. On this day - and on most days this spring - the measures of the most dangerous kind of pollution in Seoul exceed the World Health Organization's recommended limit. And Korea ranks near the very bottom for air quality in Yale University's latest 180-country Environmental Performance Index.
"People say the [poor] air quality here these days is because of China,"...