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Naktong
(redirected from Nakdong River)

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Naktong 

a river on the Korean Peninsula, in South Korea. It is 524 km long and drains an area of approximately 24,000 sq km. The Naktong originates on the southwestern slopes of the East Korea Mountains; it flows into the Korea Strait. The mean flow rate at the river’s mouth is 380 cu m per sec. The river is navigable for 340 km. The cities of Andong and, near the mouth, Pusan, are located on the Naktong.
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In Korea, the Han River that flows through Seoul and the Nakdong River flowing through Pusan were so polluted by unchecked dumping of industrial waste that they were close to being classified as biologically dead.
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Second, the number of environmental disasters such as the accidental dumping of phenol in the Nakdong river by Doosan Electronics in 1991 caused serious and expansive environmental harm in the southern part of Korea.
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