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Members of Greenpeace hold a protest Friday in front of the Dongdaemun Design Plaza in Seoul to call on the South Korean government to designate 30 percent of the country’s ocean area as marine protected areas by 2030. (Kim Myoung-jin/the Hankyoreh)

Greenpeace held a protest Friday in front of the Dongdaemun Design Plaza in Seoul to call on the South Korean government to designate 30 percent of the country’s ocean area as marine protected areas by 2030.

Members of Greenpeace hold a protest Friday in front of the Dongdaemun Design Plaza in Seoul to call on the South Korean government to designate 30 percent of the country’s ocean area as marine protected areas by 2030. (Kim Myoung-jin/the Hankyoreh)

Kim Yeon-ha, a marine conservation activist at the protest, said, “South Korea has been hesitant in establishing marine protected areas in its seas, but it needs to act now to protect the ocean and respond to climate change.”

Members of Greenpeace hold a protest Friday in front of the Dongdaemun Design Plaza in Seoul to call on the South Korean government to designate 30 percent of the country’s ocean area as marine protected areas by 2030. (Kim Myoung-jin/the Hankyoreh)

The Dongdaemun Design Plaza is the venue for the 2021 Partnering for Green Growth and the Global Goals 2030 Seoul Summit, which begins Sunday.

By Kim Myoung-jin, staff photographer

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