One of the national administrative agencies of the Republic of Korea, there is the Ministry of Health and Social Health Bureau of Environmental Health, the establishment of the Department of the Environment, the establishment of the Department of the Environment, reorganization into the Ministry of the Environment, the reform of government agencies, the Department of Meteorology from the Ministry of Science and Technology to the Ministry of the Environment. Its responsibility is to protect the natural environment and living environment, prevention of environmental pollution and other related matters.