Status, Alert System, and Prediction of Cyanobacterial Bloom in South Korea

Table 1

Toxins concentrations reported from various freshwater bodies in South Korea.

Dominant cyanobacteria genus	Toxins (μg/g or μg/L)	Reservoir (river)	Sampling date	Reference
Microcystis	133 (μg/g, MC)	Soyang (Han River)	26 Oct. 1992	[13]
Oscillatoria	76	Daechung (Geum River)	06 Oct. 1992
Anabaena	115	Jangsong (Yeongsan River)	15 Oct. 1994
(algal samples)	635	Noksan (Nakdong River)	27 Aug. 1995
Microcystis; (algal samples)	288–2612 (μg/g, MC)	10 large reservoirs	Aug. 1996–Oct. 1997	[14]
Microcystis	1.89 μg/L except at; Site 1 (19.1 μg/L)	Noksan Station; (Nakdong River)	20 Aug. 1998	[15]
Microcystis	0.057–0.488 (μg/L, MC)	Paldang; (Han River)	03 Sep.–28 Nov. 1997	[8]
Microcystis	0.2 (μg/L, MC)	Daechung; (Geum River)	27 Apr.–12 Oct. 1999	[16]
Anabaena; Oscillatoria	0.01–0.08 (μg/L, AT)	Daechung; (Geum River)	18 Jun.–5 Nov. 2001	[17]
Microcystis	0.59 (μg/L, MC); 0.55 (μg/L, MC)	Yangsoori; Seokchon; (Han River)	2-3 Oct. 2004	[18]

MC: microcystin, AT: anatoxin-a.