Hyundai Wia commercializes autonomous logistics robots

Hyundai Wia commercializes autonomous logistics robots

Hyundai Wia, the second-largest auto parts supplier in South Korea after Hyundai Mobis, announced on Tuesday that it will begin commercializing auto...

KHNP closes in on final deal to build nuclear plant in Poland: PGE CEO

KHNP closes in on final deal to build nuclear plant in Poland: PGE CEO

Korea Hydro and Nuclear Power Co. (KHNP) and its counterparts are now in a situation where most conditions have been met to allow them to sign a bin...

EcoPro sets sights on Europe with $286 million cathode plant in Hungary

EcoPro sets sights on Europe with $286 million cathode plant in Hungary

South Korea’s EcoPro Co., a leading battery materials maker, has begun construction of a 380 billion won ($286 million) cathode plant in Hunga...

Russian fresh pollock imported for first time at Donghae Port

Russian fresh pollock imported for first time at Donghae Port

As Korean cod, which had been considered everyone's fish, has virtually disappeared, Russian fresh  pollock has finally become available to Kor...

Hyundai ties up with LG, SK for $5.3 bn US EV cell plants

Hyundai ties up with LG, SK for $5.3 bn US EV cell plants

Hyundai Motor Group, the leading South Korean automaker, has joined hands with LG Energy Solution Ltd. and its smaller rival SK On Co. to build elec...

Samsung Heavy forms int'l consortium to make nuclear plants at sea

Samsung Heavy forms int'l consortium to make nuclear plants at sea

South Korea's Samsung Heavy Industries (SHI) and Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power (KHNP) and Denmark's Seaborg Technologies on Friday announced their...

Hankook Tire to cut workforce at fire-hit Daejeon plant

Hankook Tire to cut workforce at fire-hit Daejeon plant

Hankook Tire & Technology Co., South Korea’s largest tire maker, will cut its workforce at the fire-hit production complex in Daejeon thro...

POSCO Future M to issue $226 mn Korean green bonds

POSCO Future M to issue $226 mn Korean green bonds

South Korea's battery component maker POSCO Future M Co. (formerly POSCO Chemical) announced on Friday that it will issue 300 billion won ($226 mill...

Samsung’s Lee likely to meet Apple, Google, MS CEOs during US trip

Samsung’s Lee likely to meet Apple, Google, MS CEOs during US trip

 Samsung Group leader Lee Jae-yong will meet with chief executives of leading US companies, including Apple Inc.’s Tim Cook and Google LL...

POSCO mulls $3.3 bn investment in industrial cluster by 2033

POSCO mulls $3.3 bn investment in industrial cluster by 2033

South Korean steel giant POSCO Group said on Wednesday it will consider investing 4.4 trillion won ($3.3 billion) in the state-run industrial comple...

LG Chairman to refine strategy for EV battery production

LG Chairman to refine strategy for EV battery production

Koo Kwang-mo, chairman of South Korea’s fourth-largest conglomerate LG, visited a cathode plant on Monday to review supply chains for the batt...

Hyundai Motor seeks remedies after GV70 exclusion from US subsidies

Hyundai Motor seeks remedies after GV70 exclusion from US subsidies

Hyundai Motor Co. is seeking various ways to make its electric vehicles sold in the US qualify for tax credits after its Electrified GV70 was denied...

Lotte Biologics to invest additional $48 mn in US plant

Lotte Biologics to invest additional $48 mn in US plant

South Korea’s Lotte Biologics Co. held a plaque ceremony on Monday to commemorate the acquisition of a pharmaceutical production plant from Br...

LG Chem, China’s Huayou Cobalt to build $923 million precursor plant

LG Chem, China’s Huayou Cobalt to build $923 million precursor plant

South Korea’s top chemicals company LG Chem Ltd. and its Chinese partner Zhejiang Huayou Cobalt Co. will launch a 1.2 trillion won ($923 milli...

Hyundai to spend $18 bn on EVs; Kia breaks ground on first PBV plant

Hyundai to spend $18 bn on EVs; Kia breaks ground on first PBV plant

South Korea’s largest automaker Hyundai Motor Group has unveiled its 2030 vision to become one of the world’s top three electric vehicle...

SK Energy opens S.Korea's first hydrogen charging station for large trucks

SK Energy opens S.Korea's first hydrogen charging station for large trucks

SK Energy is the first company in South Korea to launch a station for charging large hydrogen-powered trucks. The company on Sunday said it held a c...

Hanwha inks largest supply deal for US community solar biz

Hanwha inks largest supply deal for US community solar biz

South Korea’s Hanwha Solutions Corp. is set to sell 2.5 million modules to US community solar programs through the largest-ever supply deal fo...

Hanwha Solutions signs MOU with 7 companies for bio PVC biz

Hanwha Solutions signs MOU with 7 companies for bio PVC biz

Hanwha Solutions Corp., a South Korean petrochemical company, is partnering with domestic polyvinyl chloride (PVC) companies to promote the commerci...

FarmHannong's new herbicide enters the Pakistani market

FarmHannong's new herbicide enters the Pakistani market

South Korea's agricultural chemical company FarmHannong Co. announced on Thursday that its new herbicide Terrad'or will enter the Pakistani market. ...

SeAH rolls out S.Korea's first 24-inch STS steel pipe production line

SeAH rolls out S.Korea's first 24-inch STS steel pipe production line

South Korea's SeAH Steel Corp. through an expansion has the nation's largest plant for stainless steel (STS) welded steel pipe measuring 60.9 cm (24...

Samsung Elec to invest $3.1 bn in S.Korean OLED plant

Samsung Elec to invest $3.1 bn in S.Korean OLED plant

Samsung Electronics Co., the world’s largest smartphone maker, is set to spend 4.1 trillion won ($3.1 billion) on a new organic light-emitting...

Korean Dongkuk opens 2nd Mexican color-coated steel plant

Korean Dongkuk opens 2nd Mexican color-coated steel plant

Dongkuk Steel Mill Co. opened its second color-coated steel plant in Mexico as South Korea’s third-largest steelmaker aims to expand its prese...

LG Chem breaks ground on supercritical pyrolysis plant

LG Chem breaks ground on supercritical pyrolysis plant

LG Chem Ltd. has broke ground on a plant for pyrolysis and aerogel, a material for next-generation insulation in Seongmun National Industrial Comple...

Dongkuk Steel installs solar power generation facility at Pohang plant

Dongkuk Steel installs solar power generation facility at Pohang plant

Dongkuk Steel Mill Co., the world's leading manufacturer of color-coated steel, announced on Wednesday that it has installed a 10-megawatt solar pow...

SK Hynix unsure about applying for US chip subsidies: CEO

SK Hynix unsure about applying for US chip subsidies: CEO

SK Hynix Inc., the world’s second-largest memory chipmaker after Samsung Electronics Co., said on Wednesday it is unsure about applying for US...

LS Group completes nickel sulfate plant for EV batteries

 LS Group completes nickel sulfate plant for EV batteries

South Korea’s LS Group said on Monday it has completed construction of a new plant to produce nickel sulfate, a key raw material for next-gene...

Kolon Industries achieves certification for eco-friendly petroleum resins

Kolon Industries achieves certification for eco-friendly petroleum resins

Kolon Industries Inc., a Korean manufacturer of chemical and textile products, announced on Monday that it has become the first company in the domes...

GM's SUV Trax Crossover gets 6,000 preorders in 3 days

GM's SUV Trax Crossover gets 6,000 preorders in 3 days

The Chevrolet Trax Crossover, a utility vehicle mass produced by General Motors Korea, is soon expected to exceed 10,000 preorders amid greater-than...

Samsung's Lee visits growth driver MLCC China plant

Samsung's Lee visits growth driver MLCC China plant

Samsung Electronics Co. Chairman Jay Y. Lee has chosen Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co.'s new multi-layer ceramic capacitor (MLCC) plant in Tianjin as ...

Samsung Chairman Lee to meet new premier in China

Samsung Chairman Lee to meet new premier in China

Samsung Electronics Co. Chairman Jay Y. Lee arrived in Beijing on March 23 to review the chipmaker’s business in China, which is gradually rec...

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