Challenges, opportunities for Asia’s energy transition: GIG

Challenges, opportunities for Asia’s energy transition: GIG

Global investors injected more than $1 trillion into energy transition for the first time last year. South Korea poured in some $19 billion, becomin...

SK Telecom displays cutting-edge network tech for smart battleships

SK Telecom displays cutting-edge network tech for smart battleships

South Korea's SK Telecom Co. is taking part in this year's International Maritime Defense Industry Exhibition (MADEX), which ends Friday, at Busan...

Dong-A Eng Co.

Dong-A Eng Co.

Key facts Main Business Industrial mold design and manufacturing / machinery manufacturing212.1 Millions USE(Automated Optical Inspection; AOI...

HD Hyundai Heavy Industries unveils homegrown sea vessels

HD Hyundai Heavy Industries unveils homegrown sea vessels

South Korea's HD Hyundai Heavy Industries Co. (HHI), the shipbuilding affiliate of HD Hyundai Co., on Sunday said it will unveil its next-generati...

S.Korea's trade deficit hits 15th straight month

S.Korea's trade deficit hits 15th straight month

South Korea last month suffered its 15th straight month of trade deficit, its longest streak since the 1997-98 Asian financial crisis, due to the de...

S.Korea to bolster biotech R&D, benchmarking US' Boston

S.Korea to bolster biotech R&D, benchmarking US' Boston

South Korea is poised to boost the biotech industry by accelerating research, education and business partnerships with the biopharmaceutical sector ...

HD KSOE secures $938 mn contract for 5 LNG-powered container ships

HD KSOE secures $938 mn contract for 5 LNG-powered container ships

HD Korea Shipbuilding & Offshore Engineering (HD KSOE), the intermediate shipbuilding holding company of HD Hyundai Co., said on Thursday that i...

Samsung Heavy starts to construct ammonia test facility

Samsung Heavy starts to construct ammonia test facility

South Korean shipbuilder Samsung Heavy Industries announced on Thursday that it has commenced the construction of an  ammonia test facility at ...

S.Korea to develop supercomputer for industrial use

S.Korea to develop supercomputer for industrial use

South Korea is set to develop a supercomputer for industrial use as Asia’s fourth-largest economy lags far behind on the performance of such d...

SK Hynix’s latest 1b nm DDR5 DRAM chip under Intel test run

SK Hynix’s latest 1b nm DDR5 DRAM chip under Intel test run

SK Hynix Inc., the world’s second-largest memory chipmaker after Samsung Electronics Co., said on Tuesday it has supplied its latest DDR5 DRAM...

Doosan Enerbility joins global fusion project ITER

Doosan Enerbility joins global fusion project ITER

South Korea’s Doosan Enerbility Co. will supply pressurizers to the global fusion project International Thermal Experimental Reactor (ITER) ...

S.Korea's construction companies turn sector into high-tech battleground

S.Korea's construction companies turn sector into high-tech battleground

South Korea's construction companies are aggressively employing state-of-the-art technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI), 3D modeling and ...

LG Energy's Ochang plant, Korea's EV cell mother factory

LG Energy's Ochang plant, Korea's EV cell mother factory

OCHANG, North Chungcheong Province -- LG Energy Solution Ltd., the world’s second-largest electric vehicle battery maker, on Thursday for the ...

Doosan Group to show hydrogen turbine model in Busan

Doosan Group to show hydrogen turbine model in Busan

Doosan Group companies including Doosan Enerbility Co., Doosan Fuel Cell and Doosan Fuel Cell Power will participate in the upcoming "World Climate ...

Hanwha aims to develop unmanned fighter jet engine within decade

Hanwha aims to develop unmanned fighter jet engine within decade

Hanwha Aerospace Co., South Korea’s answer to Elon Musk’s SpaceX, aims to develop engines for unmanned aircraft within the next decade t...

Daewoo Shipbuilding enters new chapter as Hanwha Ocean  

Daewoo Shipbuilding enters new chapter as Hanwha Ocean  

Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering Co. (DSME), South Korea’s cash-deprived second-largest shipbuilder, has rebranded itself Hanwha O...

Kolon Industries to develop biodegradable plastics

Kolon Industries to develop biodegradable plastics

Kolon Industries Inc., a South Korean chemical and textile manufacturer, is embarking on the development of biodegradable plastics using food wast...

Samsung rolls out industry’s finest 12 nm DDR5 DRAM chips

Samsung rolls out industry’s finest 12 nm DDR5 DRAM chips

Samsung Electronics Co. has begun mass production of 16 gigabit DDR5 DRAM chips, using the industry’s finest 12-nanometer process node, furthe...

SK Telecom develops quantum cryptography-based VPN

SK Telecom develops quantum cryptography-based VPN

South Korea's SK Telecom Co. announced on Wednesday that has completed the development of quantum key distribution (QKD) technology-based virtual pr...

Hanwha Q Cells to unveil soundproof solar module

Hanwha Q Cells to unveil soundproof solar module

Hanwha Q Cells Co., a solar power unit of South Korean conglomerate Hanwha Group, announced on Wednesday that it will participate in the upcoming "W...

LG Chem aims higher for battery materials with diverse portfolio

LG Chem aims higher for battery materials with diverse portfolio

South Korea’s LG Chem Ltd. on Tuesday revised up its 2030 sales goal for battery materials by 45% after it delivered stronger-than-expected re...

Hyundai Rotem's hydrogen fuel cell tram wins iF Design Award

Hyundai Rotem's hydrogen fuel cell tram wins iF Design Award

Hyundai Rotem is South Korea's first rail company to win a global design award, with its hydrogen fuel cell tram claiming the main prize in the pr...

SE Asian visitors revive Seoul’s tourism industry

SE Asian visitors revive Seoul’s tourism industry

In Myeongdong, Seoul’s shopping mecca, on May 14, street vendors were busy soliciting foreign tourists, greeting them in their mother tongues ...

Kolon Industries to expand high-value specialty petroleum products plant

Kolon Industries to expand high-value specialty petroleum products plant

Kolon Industries Inc., a leading industrial materials maker in South Korea, announced on Monday that it will invest 24 billion won ($17.94 million) ...

FKI, Keidanren launch fund for Korea-Japan partnerships

FKI, Keidanren launch fund for Korea-Japan partnerships

TOKYO – Major business lobby groups of South Korea and Japan have created a partnership fund of 200 million yen ($1.5 million) to accelerate i...

POSCO Int'l to directly operate LNG-dedicated carrier

POSCO Int'l to directly operate LNG-dedicated carrier

POSCO International Corp., the general trading and energy exploration unit of South Korea’s steel giant POSCO Holdings Inc., ...

Kolon Industries to increase aramid pulp production for EVs

Kolon Industries to increase aramid pulp production for EVs

Kolon Industries Inc., a leading industrial materials maker in South Korea, said on Wednesday it will inject 22 billion won ($16.6 million) to expan...

S.Korean gov't proposes nuclear power plant cooperation to Hungary

S.Korean gov't proposes nuclear power plant cooperation to Hungary

South Korean Minister of Trade, Industry and Energy Lee Chang-yang discussed ways to strengthen industrial and trade cooperation with Lászl&o...

KAI, bastion of South Korea’s fast-growing defense industry

KAI, bastion of South Korea’s fast-growing defense industry

SACHEON, South Gyeongsang Province – On a hot spring day in April, the roar of combat aircraft engines fills the air. It’s a normal day ...

Merck to build biopharma raw material plant in Korea

Merck to build biopharma raw material plant in Korea

Global pharmaceutical company Merck is considering a plan to establish a biopharmaceutical raw material production facility in Daejeon.South Korean ...

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