Samsung Heavy Industries clinches $635 mn preliminary FLNG deal with African shipowner

Samsung Heavy Industries clinches $635 mn preliminary FLNG deal with African shipowner

Samsung Heavy Industries Co., a major South Korean shipbuilder, has signed a preliminary agreement worth 869.4 billion won ($635 million) with an Af...

MSCI maintains S.Korea’s emerging-market status; level playing field eyed

MSCI maintains S.Korea’s emerging-market status; level playing field eyed

South Korea’s years-long bid for developed-market status has suffered yet another setback after global index provider MSCI Inc. declined to ad...

Trump-driven energy boom spurs Korean firms to hike US gas investments

Trump-driven energy boom spurs Korean firms to hike US gas investments

WOODFORD, Oklahoma – A shale gas field in Woodford, Carter County was bustling with activity on Feb. 25.A team of engineers oversaw the drilli...

SK E&S creates value chain from FPSO, gas field project to carbon capture

SK E&S creates value chain from FPSO, gas field project to carbon capture

SINGAPORE – At Seatrium Admiralty Yard on Jurong Island, southwest of Singapore, some 2,000 workers are busy welding gas pipes and doing other...

SK Earthon wins 2nd oil field exploration bid in Malaysia

SK Earthon wins 2nd oil field exploration bid in Malaysia

SK Earthon Co., the energy resources exploration and production (E&P) unit of South Korean energy giant SK Innovation Co., is accelerating its g...

South Koreans puzzled over rising seaweed prices despite bumper crop

South Koreans puzzled over rising seaweed prices despite bumper crop

Dried seaweed prices are rising at a fast pace despite handsome growth in production, leaving South Koreans puzzled over what is behind the steep pr...

South Korea’s job growth rises in July led by elderly workers

South Korea’s job growth rises in July led by elderly workers

South Korea’s job numbers grew in July, led by new hires among those in their 60s and older in one of the world's fastest-aging countries. The...

Korea likely to lift short-selling ban in April after leveling playing field

Korea likely to lift short-selling ban in April after leveling playing field

South Korea’s financial regulator, the Financial Services Commission (FSC), said on Thursday it will extend its blanket stock short-selling ba...

HD Hyundai supplies large hydrogen forklifts to Korea Zink

HD Hyundai supplies large hydrogen forklifts to Korea Zink

South Korea's HD Hyundai XiteSolution announced on Monday that it deployed its four 5-ton hydrogen forklifts in Korea Zinc Inc.'s Onsan Refinery and...

POSCO DX builds logstics system for fulfillment center

POSCO DX builds logstics system for fulfillment center

POSCO DX Co., the IT services subsidiary of South Korean steelmaker POSCO Holdings Inc., announced on Monday that it established the first fulfillme...

KIDI to build insurance infrastructure in Vietnam

KIDI to build insurance infrastructure in Vietnam

The Korea Insurance Development Institute (KIDI) announced on Friday that it signed a business agreement with the Vietnam Insurance Development Inst...

Seoul aims to turn Yongsan IBD into world’s largest 'vertical' city

Seoul aims to turn Yongsan IBD into world’s largest 'vertical' city

The Seoul Metropolitan Government plans to turn an abandoned train maintenance depot in the central district of Yongsan into the world’s large...

Hanwha Ocean, Gabler to collaborate for submarine MRO

Hanwha Ocean, Gabler to collaborate for submarine MRO

South Korea’s Hanwha Ocean Co., the world’s third-largest shipbuilder, announced on Wednesday that it has signed a technical agreement w...

SK E&S partners with East Timor gov't on CCS project

SK E&S partners with East Timor gov't on CCS project

South Korea's SK E&S announced on Wednesday that it signed a mutual cooperation partnership (MCP) with the East Timor Ministry of Petroleum and ...

South Korea’s SK Earthon discovers crude oil offshore Vietnam

South Korea’s SK Earthon discovers crude oil offshore Vietnam

SK Earthon Co., the petroleum exploration and production (E&P) unit of South Korea’s top energy company SK Innovation Co., said on Thursda...

Goldman Sachs lists Moloco CEO among exceptional entrepreneurs

Goldman Sachs lists Moloco CEO among exceptional entrepreneurs

Moloco Inc., a Silicon Valley-based ad-tech solution startup, said Wednesday that its co-founder and Chief Executive Ikkjin Ahn was named one of the...

POSCO Holdings to secure lithium from oil-field brine in Canada

POSCO Holdings to secure lithium from oil-field brine in Canada

South Korea's POSCO Holdings Inc. announced on Wednesday it signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Invest Alberta Corporation (IAC) in Seou...

Korea bans short selling; battery stocks lead market rally

Korea bans short selling; battery stocks lead market rally

South Korea has temporarily suspended short selling partly to prevent illegal, naked short selling, a decision buoying stocks heavily targeted by sh...

Kakao Enterprise, Salesforce establish joint sales partnership

Kakao Enterprise, Salesforce establish joint sales partnership

South Korea's Kakao Enterprise Corp. announced on Friday that it has formed a joint sales partnership with Salesforce Korea to support digital innov...

Dana Petroleum discovers new gas field in North Sea

Dana Petroleum discovers new gas field in North Sea

Dana Petroleum, wholly owned by state-run Korea National Oil Corp. (KNOC), has discovered a new high-quality gas field in the North Sea, KNOC said o...

S.Korea’s SK Earthon starts oil production in South China

S.Korea’s SK Earthon starts oil production in South China

SK Earthon Co., the resources development subsidiary of South Korea’s top energy company SK Innovation Co., began crude production at an oil f...

France’s new EV subsidy bill may violate Korea-EU FTA: KITA

France’s new EV subsidy bill may violate Korea-EU FTA: KITA

The South Korean auto industry has called for an amendment in France’s new subsidy policy for electric vehicle purchases after voicing concern...

SK E&S seeks Australia's support for Barossa LNG, CCS projects

SK E&S seeks Australia's support for Barossa LNG, CCS projects

SK E&S Co. has asked Australia to support its liquefied natural gas fields in the country and a carbon capture and storage (CCS) project in neig...

Hyundai E&C to commercialize CCS for the first time in S.Korea

Hyundai E&C to commercialize CCS for the first time in S.Korea

South Korea's Hyundai Engineering & Construction announced that it has won the contract for the preliminary front-end engineering and design (Pr...

Deal reached on LG-Stellantis battery plant subsidy; construction resumes

Deal reached on LG-Stellantis battery plant subsidy; construction resumes

All construction work at a battery joint venture in Canada between South Korea’s LG Energy Solution Ltd. and multinational automaker Stellanti...

CJ Logistics to build logistics centers in US with $416 mn investment

CJ Logistics to build logistics centers in US with $416 mn investment

CJ Logistics Corp. and Korea Ocean Business Corporation (KOBC) will together build three logistics centers in the US with an estimated investment of...

S.Korea to inject more than $2.3 bn in quantum science, tech by 2035

S.Korea to inject more than $2.3 bn in quantum science, tech by 2035

South Korea will pour more than 3 trillion won ($2.3 billion) into quantum science and technology by 2035, aiming to become the world’s fourth...

S.Korean gov't, L'Oréal to jointly support beauty tech startups

S.Korean gov't, L'Oréal to jointly support beauty tech startups

South Korean Ministry of SMEs and Startups has joined forces with the L'Oréal Group to provide support for beauty tech startups.During the Vi...

S.Korea, US to jointly invest $60 mn for student exchange programs

S.Korea, US to jointly invest $60 mn for student exchange programs

South Korea and the United States have agreed to jointly invest $60 million in the exchange of young professionals in the field of science and techn...

S.Korea releases guidelines on development of small modular reactors

S.Korea releases guidelines on development of small modular reactors

South Korea has released guidelines on the advancement of small modular reactors (SMR), a critical sector for the domestic nuclear power industry, u...

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