Kakao Commerce said in a statement on June 5 that the company would replace vinyl and plastics used in the packaging and delivering of character goods with environmentally-friendly paper by July. "We defined our new climate movement as the 'warm gift for the people and Earth," a Kakao official was quoted as saying.
Many South Korean companies have accelerated their green movement to solve problems related to climate change. Bottled water companies were active in releasing label-free polyethylene terephthalate (PET) bottles for easy recycling so that consumers do not have to remove labels made of a thin sheet of plastic.