Greenpeace East Asia Seoul office conducted a field investigation in Uiseong illegal waste dump site with 170,300 tons piled up, the largest of the kind according to the Ministry of Environment. The site was full of rotten smell and sludge streaming around it along with toxic smoke from spontaneous combustion. This waste dump site has become a symbol of the failure of waste management and recycling system in Korea. There are 1.2 million tons of illegally abandoned waste across South Korea, according to the Ministry of Environment.