Patrick the Panda visited a middle school in Korea today. In Korea children go to middle school from ages 13 to 15. There are also elementary schools for younger children and high schools.

Patrick was delighted to see that many of the posters ‎around the school were all about climate change. The posters were really colourful and were written in English too. 

The school were working hard to reduce the energy they were using too. It was another cold day in Seoul but the heating in the school was limited to just 18 degrees Celsius. This is national policy for all schools and government buildings to help tackle climate change.

Patrick also spotted that the school uniforms included a nice tartan design. Tartan seems to be quite popular in Korea – some of the teachers also had tartan ties.

Patrick is also amazed that there are not more traffic jams in Seoul. You would hardly think that 25 million people in the city. Most use the excellent metro system and buses to get around. This is just one of the other ways Korean’s are trying to protect the environment.