Journal of the Korean Society of Mineral and Energy Resources Engineers ISSN:2288-0291(Print) 2288-2790(Online) 한국자원공학회지

Contamination of soil and groundwater is hardly identified by direct observation and proceeds very slowly. Contamination often occurs in a broad range and remediation needs high cost and long time. Remediation process is an integrated engineering system to which a variety of specialized fields are applied. Since typical and fixed remediation technique cannot be applied to all contamination cases, the specialists with much knowledge and experience are required. Though domestic development of remediation techniques has just begun, the gap with developed countries can be rapidly narrowed if we learn the developed techniques and try to accumulate experiences. To date remediation projects for contaminated sites such as abandoned mines, industrial complex and military camps were mainly performed by government, commercialized remediation projects will be gradually increased. Due to high social concern on environment and future large-scaled projects such as remediation of returned USFK military camp sites, the remediation project market is expected to be explosively expanded.