The newly revamped desktop version of Kakao Maps has a layers feature that will show current dust and pollution levels throughout Korea. Yet another way to monitor air quality health of various areas of South Korea.
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| Overall current air quality stats for Seoul on Kakao Map |
Just visit
https://map.kakao.com and tap the little "layers" icon in blue above. It will pull up a menu of various layers for the map like traffic, terrain, district boundaries, etc. But at the bottom are several buttons that show various air quality information, including:
- Current temperature and conditions
- Overall air quality
- Fine dust
- Ultrafine dust
- Yellow dust
- Ozone
- Nitrogen dioxide
- Carbon monoxide
- Sulfur dioxide
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| Ultra fine dust levels in Seoul on Kakao Map |
The overall air quality, or 통합대기, is probably most useful.
Conveniently, you can use Chrome's built-in translation tool to get all these options translated to your language automatically. Here's how that looks:
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| Chrome-translated Kakao Map in English |
You can use this to find islands of cleaner air when planning your weekend outings. But one thing I dislike is that it seems to use administrative boundaries for its color coding which gives a slightly strange perspective.
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