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Pork for pollution? South Koreans fight smog in their own way

Whenever dust particles hang thick in the air in South Korea, sales of pork rise. Why?

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Korean BBQ pork belly. Source: Getty Image

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Presented by Yang J. Joo

Source: SBS News, SBS



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This quirky correlation stems from an old belief attributed to coal miners, that the slippery pork oil helped cleanse dirt from their throats.


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