Doosan Enerbility turns around with reform, new orders

Doosan Enerbility turns around with reform, new orders

South Korea's major power plant builder Doosan Enerbility Co. has significantly improved its financial health, with its debt-to-equity ratio tumblin...

Korea’s new govt. aims to export 10 nuclear power plants

Korea’s new govt. aims to export 10 nuclear power plants

South Korea’s incoming administration seeks to export 10 nuclear power plants by 2030 as President-elect Yoon Suk-yeol pledged to rescind the ...

Hyundai Heavy's engine unit emerges as golden goose

Hyundai Heavy's engine unit emerges as golden goose

Hyundai Heavy Industries Co., a South Korean shipbuilding giant, is seeing its marine engine business unit emerge as the company’s cash cow.Th...

SK buys power semiconductor maker for EV chip business

SK buys power semiconductor maker for EV chip business

SK Group, South Korea’s third-largest conglomerate, has geared up its electric vehicle chip business development with the acquisition of a loc...

Doosan to supply key SMR equipment to US NuScale Power

Doosan to supply key SMR equipment to US NuScale Power

Doosan Enerbility Co., South Korea's major power plant builder, will participate in a nuclear power plant in the US as a key equipment supplier for ...

LG Chem becomes 1st Korean long-term renewables buyer

LG Chem becomes 1st Korean long-term renewables buyer

LG Chem Ltd. has become the first South Korean company to buy renewable energy on a long-term basis as part of an effort to make a full switch to re...

Hyundai Rotem to kick off liquid hydrogen fueling station project

Hyundai Rotem to kick off liquid hydrogen fueling station project

Hyundai Rotem Co., a South Korea’s railway system maker under Hyundai Motor Group, said on Friday that it has won a demonstration project to b...

Korea’s Yoon govt to raise nuclear power to 34% of energy source

Korea’s Yoon govt to raise nuclear power to 34% of energy source

South Korea’s incoming government plans to extend the service life of eight more nuclear power plants than originally planned as President-ele...

KT showcases AI-powered robots, traffic control program at tech fair

KT showcases AI-powered robots, traffic control program at tech fair

KT Corp., a major South Korean telecommunications company, unveiled its new digital transformation services using artificial intelligence, big data ...

LIG Nex1 anti-tank missile in spotlight amid Ukraine war

LIG Nex1 anti-tank missile in spotlight amid Ukraine war

An anti-tank guided weapon produced by South Korean defense exporter LIG Nex1 Co. is in the spotlight as Ukraine said its forces destroyed Russian a...

KT taps Vietnam for digital healthcare and AI-powered diagnosis

KT taps Vietnam for digital healthcare and AI-powered diagnosis

KT Corp., a major telecommunications company in South Korea, is set to enter the Vietnamese healthcare market with a pilot telemedicine service an...

Kolon Life inks technology transfer deal with Juniper Biologics

Kolon Life inks technology transfer deal with Juniper Biologics

South Korea’s pharmaceutical company Kolon Life Science Inc. signed a technology export deal worth up to 723.4 billion won ($589.1 million) wi...

FDA to review Hanmi Pharmaceutical’s Rolontis for marketing approval

FDA to review Hanmi Pharmaceutical’s Rolontis for marketing approval

The US Food and Drug Administration has begun reviewing a medicine developed by South Korea’s Hanmi Pharmaceutical Co. for marketing authoriza...

KSOE opens R&D center in Germany for future technology

KSOE opens R&D center in Germany for future technology

Korea Shipbuilding & Offshore Engineering (KSOE), the intermediate holding company of the world’s top shipbuilder Hyundai Heavy Indus...

Low-carbon energy costs to haunt airlines from 2025

Low-carbon energy costs to haunt airlines from 2025

The European Union's tougher emission standards are creating a new headache for airline companies, which are raising their international flights to ...

Hyundai E&C, Holtec sign nuclear power plant decommissioning deal

Hyundai E&C, Holtec sign nuclear power plant decommissioning deal

Hyundai Engineering & Construction Co. is tapping into the US nuclear power plant dismantlement market by expanding its partnership with Holtec ...

Samsung’s Life Science Fund invests in US biotech Jaguar Gene Therapy

Samsung’s Life Science Fund invests in US biotech Jaguar Gene Therapy

Samsung Group’s 150 billion won ($124 million) Life Science Fund launched last year has chosen a leading US gene therapy development company a...

One in five S.Koreans use AI-powered tax filing platform 3.3

One in five S.Koreans use AI-powered tax filing platform 3.3

Jobis & Villains, the operator of artificial intelligence-powered accounting platform 3.3, is resolute about its mission to help gig economy wor...

Naver launches conversational search engine service 

Naver launches conversational search engine service 

South Korea’s internet juggernaut Naver Corp. announced Friday it has launched a conversational search engine service called Knowledge Interac...

President-elect pledges to build S.Korea as 'pivotal' global power

President-elect pledges to build S.Korea as 'pivotal' global power

President-elect Yoon Suk-yeol pledges to build South Korea into what he dubs a global 'pivotal' power that contributes to freedom, peace, and prospe...

Hyundai, Iveco to cooperate on commercial vehicles

Hyundai, Iveco to cooperate on commercial vehicles

Hyundai Motor Co., South Korea’s top automaker, and Iveco Group NV, Italia's truck maker, have agreed to join hands on their commercial vehicl...

KEPCO at record loss on fuel costs; wider losses seen in 2022

KEPCO at record loss on fuel costs; wider losses seen in 2022

South Korean power utility KEPCO Co. reported its largest-ever operating loss of nearly 6 trillion won ($5 billion) in 2021, after it froze the elec...

Korean battery sector to heat up IPO market again

Korean battery sector to heat up IPO market again

South Korea’s battery industry is expected to heat up the initial public offering market later this year as battery materials and equipment ma...

KT provides AI-powered voice recognition service to Mercedez

KT provides AI-powered voice recognition service to Mercedez

South Korea’s top wireless carrier KT Corp. announced Thursday that it has launched an AI-powered voice recognition service for Mercedez-Benz ...

Kia: New king in J.D. Power’s most reliable auto brand rankings

Kia: New king in J.D. Power’s most reliable auto brand rankings

Kia Corp. is the top-ranked automaker in J.D. Power’s 2022 US Vehicle Dependability Study (VDS) ahead of General Motor Co.’s Buick as we...

S.Korea urged to embrace nuclear power to go carbon free

S.Korea urged to embrace nuclear power to go carbon free

The topic of RE100, a multinational campaign to make a full switch to renewable energy by 2050, was brought up last week during a debate among four ...

Samsung C&T to invest $70 mn in US nuclear fission tech provider

Samsung C&T to invest $70 mn in US nuclear fission tech provider

Samsung C&T Corp. is set to invest up to 85 billion won ($7 million) in US nuclear fission technology provider NuScale Power, LLC. NuScale Power...

Hyundai Rotem to mass produce hydrogen extractors

Hyundai Rotem to mass produce hydrogen extractors

South Korea’s Hyundai Rotem is set to start in February mass production of hydrogen extractors that derive hydrogen from natural gas as it aim...

LG Energy, GM to build $2.6 bn battery plant in Michigan

LG Energy, GM to build $2.6 bn battery plant in Michigan

LG Energy Solution Ltd. and General Motors Co., plan to build the third US electric vehicle battery plant in Michigan with a $2.6 billion investment...

Hyosung goes greener with $836 million green hydrogen project

Hyosung goes greener with $836 million green hydrogen project

Hyosung Group is stepping up efforts to turn into an eco-friendly business, announcing huge investment plans on hydrogen and renewable energy projec...

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