South Korean chemical companies are being accused of colluding with air pollutant measurement firms,...manipulating data on fine dust emissions.<br />According to the environment ministry on Wednesday,... 2-hundred-35 chemical factories in the Yeosu industrial complex requested four measurement agencies,.... to fabricate records on air pollutant emissions over the past four years. <br />LG Chemical and Hanwha Chemical were included,...and for LG Chemical,... emissions of vinyl chloride were discharged at levels 1-hundred-73 times higher than the standard.<br />The ministry has reported six firms to the police.... and plans to expand the investigation. <br />
