SEOUL: South Korea pledged on Monday (Nov 17) to phase out coal power plants that lack emission-reducing measures, an ambitious step for a country that generates a third of its electricity from the fossil fuel. "We will kickstart our coal phase-out," said Seoul's Climate Minister Kim Sung-whan, announcing South Korea's decision to join the Powering Past Coal Alliance (PPCA) of governments and organisations pushing to eliminate unabated coal as a power source. The pledge will "help the Alliance