IFEZ to apply for designation of southern Ganghwa as free economic zone

The Incheon Free Economic Zone (IFEZ) Authority is set to submit its application by the end of June to designate the southern end of Ganghwa Island ...

SK invests $200 mn in US AI cluster builder SMART Global

SK Telecom Co. said on Tuesday it has agreed to invest $200 million in SMART Global Holdings Inc. (SGH), a US artificial intelligence cluster builde...

Hyundai Motor debuts 2025 Avante with improved cluster space use

Hyundai Motor Co. announced on Thursday that it has launched the updated model of the compact sedan, 2025 Avante, and has begun full-scale sales.Sin...

Shinhan Financial units to reside under one roof in Vietnam

Shinhan Financial Group Co. is upping the ante in the Vietnamese financial market to further widen the gap with rivals as the country’s leadin...

Korean Air breaks ground on Asia’s largest aircraft engine MRO cluster

Korean Air Lines Co., South Korea’s No. 1 full-service carrier, said on Thursday it has begun construction of a $439 million aircraft engine m...

POSCO to build world's largest battery cathode plant cluster

GWANGYANG, South Jeolla Province  -- POSCO Future M Co., a battery materials supplier, on Thursday broke ground on its fifth cathode materials ...

L&F to invest $1.9 bn to build key battery materials plants

DAEGU, South Korea – L&F Co., South Korea’s major cathode supplier seeking to transform into a comprehensive battery materials produ...

SK Geo breaks ground on $1.4 bn plastic recycling cluster

South Korea’s SK Geo Centric Co. on Wednesday broke ground on a waste plastic recycling complex to transform itself into a green petrochemical...

KG Mobility to supply automotive parts to Saudi SNAM

South Korea's KG Mobility Corp., formerly Ssangyong Motor Co., announced on Monday it signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) for building a part...

SK Hynix pins high hopes on specialty DRAM for AI use: CEO

In the semiconductor industry, it’s been quite a while since memory chips became a commodity, meaning so low an entry barrier that any chipmak...

SK Chemicals, Lovere to recycle waste plastic in China

South Korea's SK Chemicals Co. announced on Tuesday that it has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Lovere, a leading recycling business...

Battery materials firms revive Korean cities with new plants

As South Korean battery materials companies such as LG Chem Ltd., POSCO Future M Co. and EcoPro Co. aggressively step up facility investment, they a...

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 ...

Renault Korea seeks to establish R&D center in Busan

Renault Korea has announced plans to establish an R&D center in Busan.The Busan city government announced it will sign a "Business Cooperation A...

Hanwha Systems, KAI sign contracts to develop SAR satellites

Hanwha Systems Co. and Korea Aerospace Industries Ltd., Korea’s two leading aerospace and defense companies, have clinched deals with a govern...

Hanyang, Linde to inject $800 mn for hydrogen cluster in Korea

Hanyang Corporation Ltd., a South Korean construction firm, will join forces with German industrial gases and engineering company Linde AG to create...

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...

Samsung, SK Hynix look to China exit plans as growth stunted

Samsung Electronics Co. and SK Hynix Inc., the world’s two largest memory chipmakers, are in quandary over their growth strategies in China fo...

South Korea eyes $261 billion chip cluster; Samsung takes lead

South Korea said on Wednesday it will create the world’s largest semiconductor cluster near Seoul by attracting 340 trillion won ($261 billion...

Pulmuone builds data sharing cluster for factories

South Korea's major plant-based food company Pulmuone Co. Ltd. said on Monday that it has built a "digital cluster smart factory" that can share, in...

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...

KT signs agreement with O2 Company on smart fish farming

KT Corp., a South Korean telecom giant, plans to advance into the sea farming business.KT said on Sunday it had signed a business agreement with O2 ...

JW Pharmaceutical relocates US research center from Seattle to Boston

JW Pharmaceutical announced on Wednesday that it has relocated its US research center to Boston from San Diego. JW Theriac was first establishe...

POSCO agrees on joint graphene cluster development

The steelmaker POSCO will lead in the creation of a graphene industry cluster in the city of Pohang, about 300km southeast of Seoul, where the compa...