Hyundai ushers in future of car manufacturing in Singapore

Hyundai ushers in future of car manufacturing in Singapore

SINGAPORE – Hyundai Motor Group on Tuesday officially inaugurated its first mobility innovation center in Singapore powered by a slew of smart...

Korean Air, LX Pantos sign SAF business agreement

Korean Air, LX Pantos sign SAF business agreement

Korean Air Lines Co. signed on Monday a memorandum of understanding (MOU) for sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) business with LX Pantos Co. This MOU i...

HD Hyundai opens Electrification Center

HD Hyundai opens Electrification Center

South Korea's HD Hyundai Group new opened on Monday HD Hyundai Electrification Center at the HD Hyundai Global R&D Center in Seongnam, Gyeonggi ...

SK Energy to spin off tank terminal business as new logistics firm

SK Energy to spin off tank terminal business as new logistics firm

SK Energy Co., a unit of South Korean oil refiner and battery maker SK Innovation Co., is spinning off its crude oil storage and shipment business t...

SsangYong C&E to invest $616 mn in eco-friendly facilities

SsangYong C&E to invest $616 mn in eco-friendly facilities

South Korea's cement maker SsangYong C&E Co. is investing 800 billion won ($616 million) in facilities to reduce environmental pollution in the ...

Shilla Duty Free partners with Line Pay to attract Asian tourists

Shilla Duty Free partners with Line Pay to attract Asian tourists

South Korea's The Shilla Duty Free announced it partnered with Line Pay Taiwan to attract South Asian tourism on Thursday. Line Pay is the top mobil...

SK Innovation, ENEOS to co-work for low-carbon energy

SK Innovation, ENEOS to co-work for low-carbon energy

SK Innovation Co. said on Wednesday it will bolster its alliance with Japan's largest petroleum refiner ENEOS. This decision builds on their histor...

South Korean steelmakers face longer winter

South Korean steelmakers face longer winter

South Korean steelmakers, including the world’s sixth-largest steelmaker POSCO, are facing a longer-than-expected winter in steel demand as th...

Kumho Petrochem, POSCO look to carbon nanotube JV, share swap

Kumho Petrochem, POSCO look to carbon nanotube JV, share swap

South Korea’s Kumho Petrochemical Co. and POSCO International Corp. are considering launching a joint venture to produce carbon nanotubes (CNT...

Toray Advanced Materials to spur carbon fiber production in Korea

Toray Advanced Materials to spur carbon fiber production in Korea

Toray Advanced Materials Korea Inc. (TAK) broke ground on its new facility for carbon fiber production in Gumi, North Gyeongsang Province on Monday,...

DL E&C, Saudi SWCC team up for carbon neutrality

DL E&C, Saudi SWCC team up for carbon neutrality

South Korea's DL E&C Co. announced on Monday it signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) for the application of small modular reactors (SMRs) ...

Lotte, two SK Group units to join hands for carbon capture

Lotte, two SK Group units to join hands for carbon capture

Lotte Chemical Corp., SK Innovation Co. and SK IE Technology Co. (SK IET) have signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to make their joint push i...

Lotte Duty Free focuses energy on stores in Seoul

Lotte Duty Free focuses energy on stores in Seoul

South Korea’s Lotte Duty Free, which removed its stores from Incheon International Airport in late June, is channeling its energy toward boost...

China’s Temu challenges homegrown e-commerce platforms in Korea

China’s Temu challenges homegrown e-commerce platforms in Korea

Temu, a popular Chinese discount e-commerce platform that landed in South Korea just a few months ago, has apparently cracked homegrown players&rsqu...

POSCO FutureM cuts carbon by recycling waste refractories

POSCO FutureM cuts carbon by recycling waste refractories

South Korea's battery materials maker POSCO Future M Co. announced on Monday its achievement in reducing significant carbon footprints by fully re...

S.Korea sees rise in young, independent Chinese tourists

S.Korea sees rise in young, independent Chinese tourists

South Korea is welcoming a growing number of Chinese tourists since China lifted a ban on group tours to its neighboring country on Aug. 10 after mo...

Shilla Duty Free ready to boost sales at Changi Airport

Shilla Duty Free ready to boost sales at Changi Airport

HDC Shilla Duty Free Ltd., the operator of The Shilla Duty Free Shop, said on Tuesday it has extended the contract to run cosmetics and perfume stor...

Gluten-free Korean snack, pea soy sauce lure European gourmets

Gluten-free Korean snack, pea soy sauce lure European gourmets

COLOGNE, Germany – The traditional Korean snack yakgwa and a soy-like sauce made with peas were named innovative foods of the year at the worl...

Hyundai Glovis pledges carbon neutrality by 2045

Hyundai Glovis pledges carbon neutrality by 2045

South Korean shipping and logistics company Hyundai Glovis Co. on Thursday pledged to achieve carbon neutrality by 2045.  Despite producing a h...

SK C&C invests in US startup Glassdome

SK C&C invests in US startup Glassdome

South Korea's SK C&C announced on Thursday that it has made a new investment in Glassdome, a US carbon emission management solution startup.&nbs...

Samsung Engineering partners with global firms for CCUS

Samsung Engineering partners with global firms for CCUS

South Korea's Samsung Engineering is ramping up its strategies in the carbon capture, utilization, and storage (CCUS) arena by securing partnerships...

SK E&S, Honeywell UOP to capture carbon from LNG plants

SK E&S, Honeywell UOP to capture carbon from LNG plants

SK E&S Co., a clean energy unit of South Korea’s No. 2 conglomerate SK Group, and Honeywell UOP, a US major refining and petrochemical tec...

Net-zero by 2050 will hit S.Korea’s economic growth: BOK

Net-zero by 2050 will hit S.Korea’s economic growth: BOK

The net zero emission target by 2050 is forecast to lower South Korea’s economic growth rate by an average of 0.6 percentage point per year ...

Cultivated meat, carbon capture on center stage at D.Day

Cultivated meat, carbon capture on center stage at D.Day

Simple Planet, a South Korean biotech startup developing sustainable food technologies, has won this month’s startup pitch day held jointly by...

Unid expands potassium hydroxide plant in Ulsan

Unid expands potassium hydroxide plant in Ulsan

OCI Group-affiliated chemical company Unid announced on Thursday that it has completed the expansion of its Ulsan plant after investing 11 billion w...

Taekyung Group to recycle brine water in Saudi Arabia

Taekyung Group to recycle brine water in Saudi Arabia

South Korea's Taekyung Group on Monday said it formed a strategic partnership with Saudi Arabia's government-run Saline Water Conversion Corp. (SWCC...

LG’s FAST drive to combat TV set market slowdown

LG’s FAST drive to combat TV set market slowdown

South Korea’s electronics giant LG Electronics Inc. is upending its TV business strategy by betting even bigger on software and content to off...

LG Uplus pet care platform's subscribers exceed 300,000

LG Uplus pet care platform's subscribers exceed 300,000

South Korea's LG Uplus Corp. announced on Thursday that its pet service platform ForDong has garnered over 300,000 subscribers just 14 months sinc...

Samsung Electronics on track to achieve carbon neutrality by 2050

Samsung Electronics on track to achieve carbon neutrality by 2050

Come Friday, Samsung Electronics Co., the world’s largest memory chipmaker, will mark its first anniversary of publicly announcing its enterpr...

Doosan seeks to fuel Indonesia power plants with green ammonia

Doosan seeks to fuel Indonesia power plants with green ammonia

Doosan Enerbility Co., a South Korea construction equipment manufacturer, said on Friday it has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Indo...

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