CJ HDC Biosol completes plant for green biodegradable materials

South Korea's CJ HDC Biosol on Thursday said it held a completion ceremony for its biodegradable material compounding plant at Gwanghyewon Industria...

Lotte to invest $55 mn in Indian ice cream subsidiary for 5 years

South Korea-based Lotte Confectionery Co. will invest  4.5 billion rupees ($55.1 million) in its Indian unit Havmor Ice Cream in the next five ...

SK Innovation-invested Amogy tests ammonia-powered heavy truck

Amogy Inc. has successfully tested its ammonia-hydrogen power system for large-size semi trucks – the first time that ammonia has been used as...

Daewoong accelerates investment in CDMO business

Daewoong, the holding company of South Korea's pharmaceutical-oriented Daewoong Group, is speeding up its pace to beef up its contract development a...

Samsung Eng. wins ADNOC’s $80.7 mn joint project

South Korea’s Samsung Engineering Co. has won a $80.7 million joint project from Abu Dhabi National Oil Co. (ADNOC) for multi-billion-dollar g...

Medytox to build plant for finished toxin products in Dubai

South Korea's biopharmaceutical company Medytox Inc. will build a plant for finished products containing botulinum toxin in the United Arab Emirates...

Kia to break ground on new Korean EV plant in March

Kia Corp., South Korea’s No. 2 automaker, is set to break ground in March on a domestic factory to produce electric purpose-built vehicles (PB...

Samsung CEO says construction of Taylor foundry on track

A US road in Taylor, Taxas, where global chip giant Samsung Electronics Co. is building a $17 billion fabrication plant on a scale of about 5 millio...

LG Elec's Tennessee plant named Lighthouse Factory by WEF

LG Electronics Inc.'s home appliance factory in Tennessee, the US, has been selected as a "Lighthouse Factory" by the World Economic Forum (WEF) for...

LG Energy, Honda to build $4.4 billion battery plant in Ohio

LG Energy Solution Ltd. and Honda Motor Co. have launched their first US joint venture to build an electric vehicle battery plant in Ohio, LG said o...

SK Energy teams up with state-run power supplier for EV charging station

SK Energy, a major South Korean oil refiner, teamed up with Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power Co. (KHNP) to install electric vehicle (EV) and hydrogen...

Korea's Webcash to expand B2B fintech solutions in Cambodia

Webcash Co. a leading business-to-business (B2B) fintech solutions provider in South Korea, said on Thursday its Cambodian affiliate KOSIGN and Phno...

Samsung’s new 5 nm high-performance SSD faster, uses less power

Samsung Electronics Co., the world’s largest memory chipmaker, said on Thursday it is ready to produce in large quantities PM9C1a, its latest ...

KCC to mass produce ceramics for eco-friendly vacuum interrupters

KCC Corp. said on Thursday that it would mass produce ceramic products for eco-friendly vacuum interrupters that do not emit sulfur hexafluoride (SF...

Dong Yang Steel Pipe signs contract with Japanese EPC company

DongYangSteelPipe, a steel pipe unit of KBI Group, said on Tuesday that it had signed on the previous day an agreement with a Japanese EPC (engineer...

SK E&S, Plug Power agree to strengthen hydrogen partnership

SK E&S CEO Choo Hyung-wook met with Plug Power CEO Andy Marsh at CES 2023 in Las Vegas on Jan. 5 to discuss ways to strengthen cooperation in th...

Hyundai Eng. acquires certifications for nuclear power plant construction

Hyundai Engineering Co. said on Tuesday it has obtained both domestic and foreign quality certifications to start the nuclear power plant EPC (desig...

Ford in talks with LG Energy for Turkey EV battery plant

Ford Motor Co. is in talks with LG Energy Solution Ltd., the world’s second-largest electric vehicle battery maker, to build a cell factory in...

LG Energy posts largest-ever profit led by US JV with GM

South Korean battery maker LG Energy Solution Ltd. posted its largest-ever profit in 2022, driven by strong sales after its US joint venture with Ge...

SK Geo Centric signs MOU with Plastic Energy for plastic recycling plant

SK Geo Centric, a subsidiary of South Korea's top refiner SK Innovation Co., will join hands with a global company to build a super-large waste plas...

Samsung Engineering wins $1.3 bn order to build ethylene plant in Qatar

South Korea's Samsung Engineering Co. said on Jan. 9 it has signed a 1.6 trillion won ($1.3 billion) contract to build the world's largest ethylene ...

Seoul in talks to share nuclear plant export profits with Westinghouse

Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power Co. and its parent company Korea Electric Power Corp. are in discussion with Westinghouse Electric Corp. to share pr...

HD Hyundai to boost offshore wind power, future ships, CEO says

LAS VEGAS – HD Hyundai Co., the largest shipbuilding conglomerate in South Korea, is set to diversify its future growth engines, focusing on s...

Samsung Heavy certified for CMSR power barge design

South Korea's main shipbuilder Samsung Heavy Industries said on Wednesday that it has completed the conceptual design for the compact molten salt re...

Samsung unveils AI-powered, better-connected TVs

Samsung Electronics Co. on Tuesday unveiled its 2023 lineup of smart TVs connected to several Internet of Things (IoT) devices, without using separa...

Novarex, Riman sign agreement to jointly develop health-functional food

South Korea's health functional foods company Novarex and cosmetics company Riiman Korea met to promote the health-functional foods business togethe...

S.Korea's Daehan Green Power invests in energy superstation biz

South Korea's Daehan Green Power has entered the green hydrogen sector, a new growth engine, through an energy super station project.The company on ...

Applied Materials injects $40 mn in glass substrate maker Absolics

Applied Materials Inc., a global leading equipment and software supplier to semiconductor makers, has invested 51 billion won ($40.2 million) in Abs...

S.Korea ranks as 6th most powerful country, beating Japan

TOKYO - South Korea ranked the world’s sixth most powerful country, beating Japan, while the peninsular nation was far behind its neighbor in ...

Hyundai to consider EV assembly plant in Saudi Arabia

Hyundai Motor Group, South Korea’s top automaker, plans to consider building an assembly plant for electric vehicles and internal combustion e...