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[Seoul News] Environment-Friendly Shared Economy

The shared economy is also aiming for the original "greenness" as a basic value, along with efficient use and allocation of resources and realization of sustainability. It is undeniable that the shared economic system itself already seeks and realizes much more eco-friendly than the existing traditional economic system. In that regard, we are going to take a closer look at the eco-friendly factors in the shared economy. 

However, it is not easy to think of the word "friendly" when you think of a shared economy. This is because the shared economy is beginning to lose its original core value of 'green' or focus solely on economic profit-taking in the process of overspreading the shared economy, resulting in a tendency to lose interest in environmental protection and community revitalization. On the other hand, "City Car," a car-sharing company specializing in electric vehicles that started operations in 2013 in the Seoul metropolitan area, is suffering from actual difficulties in realizing an eco-friendly shared economy, as the company suffered from poor performance every year due to lack of government support, poor charging infrastructure and lack of demand for vehicles sharing. As mentioned earlier, the public puts "minimizing environmental pollution" as the top priority among the goals expected for a shared economy, but the reality is that it tends to deviate from expectations. We should take responsibility for leading and inducing environmental pollution problems in a way that does not damage the core value of the existing shared economy, but does not cause environmental pollution problems as much as possible. To this end, it is necessary to raise the issue of a "green" shared economy in order to continue to realize the pursuit of 'green' one of the core values of the shared economy without losing existing shared economy projects or businesses, and to discover and spread new 'green' shared economy projects, businesses and platforms. 

The "green sharing economy" defines existing shared economy projects as economic activities that enhance the eco-friendly nature of environmental protection and discover and spread new environmentally friendly shared economy business models. In other words, the idea is to find and implement ways and strategies in which shared economies play economic activities while actively contributing to environmental protection. The plan is to develop and spread the shared economy in a way that does not cause environmental pollution without following in the footsteps of the existing traditional economy that caused greenhouse gas, climate change, fine dust, water pollution and waste pollution. 

For example, it will soon be understandable that the government should introduce new internal combustion engine car-sharing vehicles such as electric vehicles and bicycles to share eco-friendly transportation, such as gasoline, which causes greenhouse gases and fine dust, in order to promote eco-friendly economy. Meanwhile, the target and scope of an eco-friendly shared economy are all businesses, platforms and apps that actively introduce efficient use and allocation of resources (resource saving), sustainability, and eco-friendly features that are high oil prices, while voluntary individuals are freely participating in idle resources sharing based on non-monetary motives. 


                      
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In other words, all businesses that adopt a shared economy model and actively practice eco-friendliness from the beginning of the project to its operation are included in the scope and scope of the shared eco-friendly economy. A shared economy that does not accept or practice the value of eco-friendly from the beginning of the project to its operation and fails to produce environmental preservation results does not fall within the scope and scope of a "green" shared economy. Therefore, nothing has been set for the purpose and scope of an eco-friendly shared economy from the beginning, and it is reasonable to decide on how much of an environment-friendly business or company can adopt and maintain high oil prices. However, it would be reasonable for the public and society to recognize the two-pronged criteria of how well shared economic projects and businesses adopt and enhance eco-friendly features. 

For example, if environmental protection functions, or eco-friendly features, are introduced to a level that is generally accepted by the public and society, and if the environment is not adopted to a level that is generally accepted by the public and society, it can be regarded as just a common economy and not necessarily a 'green' shared economy. In a related move, eco-friendly shared economy policies mean that companies should actively implement eco-friendly policies, that the public sector actively encourages companies to operate shared economy projects in an environmentally friendly manner through regulations or support, or that they find and spread new eco-friendly shared economy projects through budgetary and policy support. 

In this sense, I'd like to make some suggestions for the spread of an eco-friendly shared economy. First, the government needs to introduce eco-friendly transportation methods such as electric vehicles, hydrogen cars and bicycles, which originally have a lot of eco-friendly features, and introduce eco-friendly energy sharing economy such as solar energy, wind power and biomass as a proposal to promote eco-friendly conversion of existing accommodation-sharing businesses and find new businesses for eco-friendly shared economy. 

The unique purpose of the shared economy includes eco-friendly. Efficient use of idle resources may cover the reduction of overproduction and appropriate use after production. In this regard, whether or not the government and its citizens will be able to reflect the eco-friendly elements of the current shared economy in a civil society and in the public sector.