HD KSOE wins $2.6 bn order for 12 container ships

HD KSOE wins $2.6 bn order for 12 container ships

South Korea’s largest shipbuilder HD Korea Shipbuilding & Offshore Engineering Co. (HD KSOE) said on Thursday it got 3.716 trillion won ...

Latvian President Rinkēvičs seeks closer ties with S.Korea in bio, defense

Latvian President Rinkēvičs seeks closer ties with S.Korea in bio, defense

Latvian President Edgars Rinkēvičs, who is on a four-day working trip to South Korea, said on Friday he hopes for deeper cooperation between the two...

LS Cable, Denmark's CIP sign LOI for floating offshore wind

LS Cable, Denmark's CIP sign LOI for floating offshore wind

South Korea's LS Cable & System Ltd. said on Wednesday that it signed a letter of intent (LOI) for offshore wind cooperation with Copenhagen Inf...

South Korea to designate Jeju as flying taxi pilot service zone

South Korea to designate Jeju as flying taxi pilot service zone

South Korea will designate its resort island Jeju a test operation zone for flying taxis as part of the country’s national urban air mobility ...

KIS hosts 2024 Stifel Research Forum in Seoul

KIS hosts 2024 Stifel Research Forum in Seoul

Korea Investment & Securities announced on Tuesday that it hosted analysts from Stifel Financial Corp. at its headquarters in Yeouido, Seoul, fo...

Korea's investment forum KIW 2024 kicks off September 9

Korea's investment forum KIW 2024 kicks off September 9

South Korea’s largest investment forum Korea Investment Week 2024 (KIW 2024) will kick off next month in Seoul, drawing around 150 leaders fro...

SK Innovation to host Global Forum in US

SK Innovation to host Global Forum in US

South Korea's SK Innovation Co. announced on Wednesday that it will host the “SK Innovation Global Forum” on July 13 in San Jose, Califo...

Kyobo Life CEO’s ethical management earns global recognition

Kyobo Life CEO’s ethical management earns global recognition

Kyobo Life Insurance Co.'s Chairman Shin Chang-jae is internationally recognized for setting the global standard for ethical management after two de...

Kukdong Oil to build hydrogen gas plant in Ulsan

Kukdong Oil to build hydrogen gas plant in Ulsan

South Korea's Kukdong Oil & Chemicals Co. announced on Wednesday that it will construct the nation's largest hydrogen gas production facility ...

SK Innovation’s Ulsan plant goes smarter with AI, robot dog, AR tech

SK Innovation’s Ulsan plant goes smarter with AI, robot dog, AR tech

ULSAN, South Gyeongsang Province – At a petrochemical plant run by SK Innovation Co., South Korea’s largest oil refiner, Spot, a robot d...

Hyundai, Kia’s tech sets them apart with record hybrid vehicle sales

Hyundai, Kia’s tech sets them apart with record hybrid vehicle sales

Like their global peers, Hyundai Motor Co. and affiliate Kia Corp. recently turned their sights back to hybrid vehicles as electric vehicle uptakes ...

World’s first test driving hydrogen train succeeds in Ulsan

World’s first test driving hydrogen train succeeds in Ulsan

The world's first test driving hydrogen-electric tram succeeded in Ulsan, South Korea. According to Ulsan Metropolitan Government officials, th...

Samsung Electronics hosts AI Forum 2023

Samsung Electronics hosts AI Forum 2023

Samsung Electronics Co. held on Tuesday the Samsung AI Forum 2023 with the theme of "Super AI for a Better Tomorrow" at the Suwon Convention Center ...

Hanwha Ocean to join Canadian patrol submarine project

Hanwha Ocean to join Canadian patrol submarine project

South Korea's shipbuilder Hanwha Ocean Co. secured a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with four Canadian submarine tech firms at Deep Blue Forum 20...

Alternative investment forum ASK 2023 to begin Oct. 25 in Seoul

Alternative investment forum ASK 2023 to begin Oct. 25 in Seoul

Major institutional investors in South Korea and global asset managers will share their views on the world economy and asset allocation strategies a...

SK Chemicals signs VPPA contract with SK E&S

SK Chemicals signs VPPA contract with SK E&S

South Korea's SK Chemicals Co. announced on Thursday a virtual power purchase agreement (VPPA) with SK E&S to shift 10% of the electricity used ...

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...

HBM chips key theme for Samsung Nov investors forum

HBM chips key theme for Samsung Nov investors forum

Samsung Electronics Co. will hold an investors forum in Hong Kong in November, where it is expected to share details about the development of high b...

SK Chairman Chey vows to turn Ulsan into green energy, AI hub

SK Chairman Chey vows to turn Ulsan into green energy, AI hub

Chey Tae-won, chairman of South Korea’s second-largest conglomerate SK Group, has vowed to turn the industrial city of Ulsan, where SK’s...

POSCO Int'l, Equinor tie up for Ulsan offshore wind project

POSCO Int'l, Equinor tie up for Ulsan offshore wind project

POSCO International Corp., a South Korean energy and trading arm of steel behemoth POSCO Holdings Inc., signed a memorandum of understanding on Thur...

Hyundai Steel's offshore wind power plant gets int’l certification

Hyundai Steel's offshore wind power plant gets int’l certification

South Korea’s Hyundai Steel on Wednesday said its Ulsan Factory 2 in the southern coastal city of Ulsan received certification as an offshore ...

POSCO E&C to build offshore wind power plant with Norwegian firm

POSCO E&C to build offshore wind power plant with Norwegian firm

South Korea’s POSCO E&C, formerly POSCO Engineering and Construction, and a Norwegian company are promoting the Ulsan Firefly project, the...

SK Group to pursue employee-led ‘deep change’

SK Group to pursue employee-led ‘deep change’

SK Group, South Korea’s second-largest conglomerate, has been dedicated to its “Deep Change” initiative since Group Chairman Chey ...

S.Korea's largest investment forum to begin Sept. 11

S.Korea's largest investment forum to begin Sept. 11

South Korea’s largest investment conference will be held in Seoul Sept. 11-15 with around 100 chief executives from global financial services ...

Blind recognized as one of Time100 Most Influential Companies 2023

Blind recognized as one of Time100 Most Influential Companies 2023

Blind, the renowned online forum for verified but anonymous professionals, has been included on the esteemed Time100 Most Influential Companies list...

SK Group to host global forum in Silicon Valley

SK Group to host global forum in Silicon Valley

The top executives of South Korea's SK Innovation Co. and SK Hynix Inc. will discuss future growth strategies with outstanding global talent in Sili...

Samsung takes on TSMC with strengthened chip design IPs

Samsung takes on TSMC with strengthened chip design IPs

Samsung Electronics Co., the world’s largest memory chipmaker, aims to drastically expand its chip design intellectual property (IP) partnersh...

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...

Alternative investment forum ASK 2023 to kick off May 17 in Seoul

Alternative investment forum ASK 2023 to kick off May 17 in Seoul

South Korean institutional investors, including the world’s third-largest pension fund National Pension Service (NPS), and global asset manage...

SK Geo Centric, Loop to set up plastic recycling plant in Korea

SK Geo Centric, Loop to set up plastic recycling plant in Korea

SK Geo Centric Co., a petrochemical unit within South Korean conglomerate SK Group, said on Wednesday it will set up a joint venture with a Nasdaq-l...

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