The country had installed 492MW of wind by the end of February, and 982MW of PV to the end of 2012. By comparison, Japan had installed roughly 2.6GW of wind and 7.4GW of PV by the end of last year. So why is Korea lagging so far behind?

The short answer is government policy.

Although former president Lee Myung-Bak championed an $83.6bn