Vietnam, gateway for SK Group’s global renewable energy push

Vietnam, gateway for SK Group’s global renewable energy push

TIEN GIANG, VIETNAM – Off the coast of Vietnam’s Tien Giang Province, 36 wind turbines spin steadily with a constant whoosh and swish, g...

S.Korea-Philippines FTA to boost car and food exports

S.Korea-Philippines FTA to boost car and food exports

South Korea and the Philippines free trade agreement (FTA) is expected to increase exports to the Philippines, especially cars and parts, which will...

S.Korea aims to export $1 bn Gim by 2027

S.Korea aims to export $1 bn Gim by 2027

South Korean Ministry of Oceans and Fisheries plans to enhance the global competitiveness of Korea's seaweed industry by establishing "Gim” ...

Samsung primed for graphics chip leadership with 24 Gb GDDR7

Samsung primed for graphics chip leadership with 24 Gb GDDR7

Samsung Electronics Co., the world’s largest memory chipmaker, has unveiled the industry’s first 24 gigabit (Gb) graphics DRAM chip, opt...

South Koreans puzzled over rising seaweed prices despite bumper crop

South Koreans puzzled over rising seaweed prices despite bumper crop

Dried seaweed prices are rising at a fast pace despite handsome growth in production, leaving South Koreans puzzled over what is behind the steep pr...

Korea seeks to curb China's offshore wind farm dominance

Korea seeks to curb China's offshore wind farm dominance

South Korea will prioritize non-price factors such as economic security and contributions to the domestic supply chain over bidding prices when sele...

Nongshim to build smart farm in Saudi Arabia

Nongshim to build smart farm in Saudi Arabia

South Korea's food and beverage giant Nongshim Co. announced on Tuesday that it was selected as a participant in the Smart Farm Export Promotion Pro...

S. Korea may join offshore wind alliance to take on China

S. Korea may join offshore wind alliance to take on China

South Korea is considering teaming up with a global body formed to cope with China’s rapid expansion in the world’s wind power industry ...

QCells wins 2GW solar panel deal for US community solar farms

QCells wins 2GW solar panel deal for US community solar farms

Hanwha Q Cell Co., better known as QCells in overseas markets, has signed a solar panel supply and partnership agreement for energy storage system (...

LG CNS launches AI-driven smart farm using satellite

LG CNS launches AI-driven smart farm using satellite

A new AI-powered smart farm utilizing satellite imagery to detect crop diseases and recommend treatment strategies is now operational, LG CNS Co., a...

Hanwha Q Cells builds US solar farm for power supply to Meta

Hanwha Q Cells builds US solar farm for power supply to Meta

Hanwha Q Cells Co., a solar panel manufacturing arm of South Korea's Hanwha Solutions Corp., said on Thursday it has completed a solar power complex...

NHN Cloud sets sights on GPU cloud service with Nvidia’s H100

NHN Cloud sets sights on GPU cloud service with Nvidia’s H100

NHN Cloud Corp., a cloud computing unit of South Korea’s internet company NHN Corp., is setting its sights on a graphics processing unit (GPU)...

Avalve to export $1.5 mn smart farm solution to Vietnam

Avalve to export $1.5 mn smart farm solution to Vietnam

South Korea's smart farm startup Avalve announced on Friday that it signed a total of $1.5 million in memorandums of understanding (MOUs) with Vietn...

Korea rejects BlackRock’s $7.5 bn wind farm project

Korea rejects BlackRock’s $7.5 bn wind farm project

South Korea has slammed the brakes on BlackRock’s offshore wind farm project worth around 10 trillion won ($7.5 billion), citing financing unc...

SeAH Wind bags $1.1 bn wind turbine monopile order in UK

SeAH Wind bags $1.1 bn wind turbine monopile order in UK

South Korean steelmaker SeAH Steel Holdings Corp. said on Thursday its UK subsidiary SeAH Wind Ltd. has won a £900 million ($1.1 billion) orde...

CJ Freshway to boost smart farming business

CJ Freshway to boost smart farming business

South Korea’s CJ Freshway Corp. announced on Monday that it will launch a smart farm contract cultivation business in 2024. South Korea's...

Samsung, SK pin hopes on HBM sales with Nvidia's new AI chip

Samsung, SK pin hopes on HBM sales with Nvidia's new AI chip

South Korean memory chipmakers like Samsung Electronics Co. and SK Hynix Inc. have high hopes for fast growth in their high-bandwidth memory (HBM) s...

Naver opens Asia’s largest data center for AI, cloud biz

Naver opens Asia’s largest data center for AI, cloud biz

SEJONG – South Korea’s online giant Naver Corp. opened Asia’s largest data center in the country to lead technology innovation and...

Naver replaces Nvidia GPU with Intel CPU for its AI map app server

Naver replaces Nvidia GPU with Intel CPU for its AI map app server

South Korea’s web portal giant Naver Corp. has replaced the main chip supplier of its artificial intelligence server for its map service, Nave...

SK Group to step up renewable energy push in Vietnam

SK Group to step up renewable energy push in Vietnam

SK Group will strengthen its partnership with the Vietnamese government to boost eco-friendly business in areas ranging from carbon capture to waste...

Daedong unveils self-running combine harvester

Daedong unveils self-running combine harvester

South Korea's leading agricultural machinery maker Daedong Corp. has released the nation’s first combine harvester, a machine that cuts and th...

Nongshim invests $7.4 mn to nurture food tech startups

Nongshim invests $7.4 mn to nurture food tech startups

South Korean food and beverage giant Nongshim Co., unveiled plans on Wednesday to pump 10 billion won ($7.4 million) into venture funds, aiming to d...

KT Cloud releases AI inference GPU infrastructure service

KT Cloud releases AI inference GPU infrastructure service

South Korea’s KT Cloud on Monday launched the service AI SERV, which allows the use of infrastructure for high-performance graphics processing...

Daedong wins $52 mn engine order from Doosan Bobcat

Daedong wins $52 mn engine order from Doosan Bobcat

South Korea’s No. 1 agricultural machinery maker Daedong Corp. will supply multicylinder diesel engines to Doosan Bobcat Inc. for five years, ...

Daedong targets hobby farmers to double US market share

Daedong targets hobby farmers to double US market share

South Korea’s No. 1 agricultural machinery maker Daedong Corp., better known by the brand name Kioti in the US, is targeting the growing hobby...

SK Hynix tests new AI hardware on Meta’s generative AI model

SK Hynix tests new AI hardware on Meta’s generative AI model

SK Hynix Inc., the world’s second-largest memory chipmaker after Samsung Electronics Co., has unveiled a new memory chip-based device that boo...

HD Hyundai wins $32 mn solar module order in Africa

HD Hyundai wins $32 mn solar module order in Africa

South Korea's HD Hyundai Energy Solutions Co. announced on Friday that it has inked a 130-megawatt (MW) solar module supply agreement with Portugee ...

POSCO Int'l, Equinor tie up for Ulsan offshore wind project

POSCO Int'l, Equinor tie up for Ulsan offshore wind project

POSCO International Corp., a South Korean energy and trading arm of steel behemoth POSCO Holdings Inc., signed a memorandum of understanding on Thur...

S.Korea's NongHyup advances into EV charging

S.Korea's NongHyup advances into EV charging

South Korea's National Agricultural Cooperative Federation (NongHyup), with over 9,000-plus offline bases nationwide, has entered the electric vehic...

KBIZ holds SME export consultation meeting in Dubai

KBIZ holds SME export consultation meeting in Dubai

A large-scale business event was held in Dubai to support the expansion of Korean small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) into the Middle East.Th...

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