KPS to recycle waste batteries for Samsung Electronics

KPS to recycle waste batteries for Samsung Electronics

Segi Recycling Technology, aka Segi Retech, a secondary battery recycling subsidiary of South Korea's KPS Corporation, has entered the market for re...

HD KSOE bags $2.3 bn in vessel orders, achieves 90% of 2023 target

HD KSOE bags $2.3 bn in vessel orders, achieves 90% of 2023 target

South Korea’s biggest shipbuilder HD Korea Shipbuilding & Offshore Engineering Co. (HD KSOE) has recently bagged over 3 trillion won ($2.3...

KGC unifies BI of red ginseng brand as JUNG KWAN JANG

KGC unifies BI of red ginseng brand as JUNG KWAN JANG

Korea Ginseng Corp. (KGC), wholly owned by South Korean tobacco giant KT&G Corp., will unify its red ginseng brand identity (BI) as JUNG KWAN JA...

POSCO Int'l to cut carbon emissions 37% by 2030

POSCO Int'l to cut carbon emissions 37% by 2030

South Korea's largest trading company POSCO International on Sunday said it officially declared its goal of achieving carbon neutrality by 2050 to b...

Jeju Air becomes 1st S.Korean LCC to surpass 100 mn passenger mark

Jeju Air becomes 1st S.Korean LCC to surpass 100 mn passenger mark

South Korea's low-cost carrier (LCC) Jeju Air Co. on Sunday said its cumulative number of passengers exceeded 100 million 17 years after the company...

S.Korea’s mattress maker Zinus launches premium product line

S.Korea’s mattress maker Zinus launches premium product line

South Korean furniture and mattress maker Zinus Inc., an affiliate of Hyundai Department Store Group, has started a premium mattress line.The compan...

Jeju Shinhwa World to spend $760 mn to restore vigor

Jeju Shinhwa World to spend $760 mn to restore vigor

South Korea’s largest resort complex Jeju Shinhwa World, located in the country’s top tourist destination, is preparing to restore its v...

Hanwha TotalEnergies completes building POE pilot plant

Hanwha TotalEnergies completes building POE pilot plant

Hanwha TotalEnergies Petrochemical Co., a South Korean joint venture between Hanwha Group and TotalEnergies, announced on Thursday that it has compl...

Doosan inks $214 mn deal for Korea combined cycle power plant

Doosan inks $214 mn deal for Korea combined cycle power plant

Major South Korean power plant builder Doosan Enerbility Co. won a 280 billion won ($214.5 million) deal to supply key components such as a gas tu...

Samsung on smooth track to 1.4 nm foundry tech to take on TSMC

Samsung on smooth track to 1.4 nm foundry tech to take on TSMC

SILICON VALLEY  – Samsung Electronics Co., the world’s largest memory chipmaker, on Tuesday unveiled details of its advanced proces...

POSCO Int'l, CIP tie up for Korean offshore wind project

POSCO Int'l, CIP tie up for Korean offshore wind project

POSCO International, the general trading and energy exploration unit of South Korea’s steel giant POSCO Holdings Inc., has joined hands with C...

Korea’s KHNP wins project for tritium removal plant in Romania

Korea’s KHNP wins project for tritium removal plant in Romania

State-backed Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power Co. (KHNP) has won a €200 million order to build a tritium removal facility (TRF) at a nuclear pow...

Hyundai Engineering's petrochemical plant in Poland starts pilot output

Hyundai Engineering's petrochemical plant in Poland starts pilot output

South Korea’s Hyundai Engineering has started pilot small-scale output ahead of mass production at its petrochemical plant in Poland.  ...

KOGAS, Vietnamese firms to jointly undertake major infra projects

KOGAS, Vietnamese firms to jointly undertake major infra projects

South Korea's state-run Korea Gas Corp. (KOGAS) has announced a partnership with Vietnamese firms, kickstarting a major infrastructure project follo...

LG Innotek to spend $1 bn to double Vietnam output capacity

LG Innotek to spend $1 bn to double Vietnam output capacity

South Korea’s LG Innotek Co., a major camera module supplier for Apple iPhones, is set to invest $1 billion in Vietnam to more than double its...

Vestas to relocate Asia-Pacific HQ to Seoul in September

Vestas to relocate Asia-Pacific HQ to Seoul in September

Denmark-based Vestas, the world's top wind turbine manufacturer, is set to move its Asia-Pacific regional headquarters from Singapore to South Korea...

HD KSOE breaks ground on marine engine plant in Saudi Arabia

HD KSOE breaks ground on marine engine plant in Saudi Arabia

HD Korea Shipbuilding & Offshore Engineering (KSOE) said on Sunday its joint venture Makeen has broken ground on a marine engine plant in Saudi ...

SK Pharmteco opens 2nd biomanufacturing plant in France

SK Pharmteco opens 2nd biomanufacturing plant in France

SK Pharmteco Co., South Korean conglomerate SK Group’s contract development and manufacturing organization (CDMO), has secured a second plant ...

Hanwha Impact develops 50% hydrogen gas turbine technology

Hanwha Impact develops 50% hydrogen gas turbine technology

The Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy announced on Wednesday that Hanwha Impact Corporation, a South Korean petrochemical manufacturer, has dev...

Renault to build new EV plant at its Korean base in Busan

Renault to build new EV plant at its Korean base in Busan

BUSAN – French automaker Renault S.A. will build a new electric vehicle manufacturing plant in South Korea to meet growing demand for eco-frie...

POSCO, CNGR to build $1.2 bn battery materials plants in Korea

POSCO, CNGR to build $1.2 bn battery materials plants in Korea

South Korea’s steel giant POSCO Group and China’s CNGR Advanced Material Co. have agreed to spend 1.5 trillion won ($1.2 billion) on sec...

Battery materials firms revive Korean cities with new plants

Battery materials firms revive Korean cities with new plants

As South Korean battery materials companies such as LG Chem Ltd., POSCO Future M Co. and EcoPro Co. aggressively step up facility investment, they a...

LG to slim down petrochem as Chinese rivals creep up

LG to slim down petrochem as Chinese rivals creep up

South Korea’s LG Chem Ltd. is speeding up restructuring efforts to sell or downsize uncompetitive businesses, with an aim to focus on three gr...

S.Korea's Daesang acquires US food company Lucky Foods

S.Korea's Daesang acquires US food company Lucky Foods

Daesang Corporation, a South Korean manufacturer of food and pharmaceutical ingredients, announced on Monday that it has acquired the US food compan...

POSCO to raise steel plant safety with robots

POSCO to raise steel plant safety with robots

POSCO Research Institute, a think tank under South Korea’s top steelmaker POSCO Group, on Sunday said it signed an agreement with Withrobot an...

POSCO-led consortium wins $6.7 bn green hydrogen deal from Oman

POSCO-led consortium wins $6.7 bn green hydrogen deal from Oman

A consortium led by South Korean steelmaker POSCO Group won a $6.7 billion deal to build the world’s largest green hydrogen plant in Duqm, a p...

K-content makers to list on Nasdaq via $610 mn SPAC deal

K-content makers to list on Nasdaq via $610 mn SPAC deal

Seven South Korean content makers are set to list on the Nasdaq through a $610 million merger deal with a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC)...

S.Korea’s Enchem to build lithium salt plant in Saemangeum

S.Korea’s Enchem to build lithium salt plant in Saemangeum

Enchem Co., South Korea’s top electrolyte manufacturer, on Thursday announced the investment of 600.5 billion won ($473.5 million) to build ...

Korea’s Samyang opens $22 mn surgical suture plant in Hungary

Korea’s Samyang opens $22 mn surgical suture plant in Hungary

Samyang Holdings Corp., the world’s top biodegradable suture yarn manufacturer, completed the construction of a 28 billion won ($21.9 million)...

Hyundai Rotem reveals actual product of hydrogen-powered train

Hyundai Rotem reveals actual product of hydrogen-powered train

Hyundai Rotem, a South Korean railway system maker under Hyundai Motor Group, participated in the largest domestic railway exhibition to showcase ad...

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