SEOUL, Dec. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — Norway has signed a contract to buy two dozen K9 Thunder self-propelled 155mm howitzers from South Korea, a show of the artillery system’s competitiveness in the European market, its manufacturer announced Thursday. Under the 245.2 billion-won (US$226.3 million) deal, Hanwha Land Systems will deliver 24 K9 howitzers and six [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 19 (Korea Bizwire) – SK Holdings Co., the holding firm of South Korean energy and telecoms conglomerate SK Group, said Tuesday that it has received US$10 million in dividends from Eureka Midstream, a U.S. midstream energy company. SK Holdings said the profit is a dividend for the fourth quarter of 2017 and said [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — Hyundai Merchant Marine Co. said Tuesday it will soon launch a block train service to Europe via the Trans China Railway (TCR) from South Korea. The unit train service to Europe by way of China will be the first of its kind, although South Korean firms have already launched [...]
SEJONG, Dec. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean energy companies are resisting a recent government decision to impose a huge tariff on steel giant POSCO for its imports of low-priced liquefied natural gas (LNG), industry sources said Tuesday. The backlash comes after the Korea Customs Service (KCS) informed the country’s leading steelmaker on Nov. 30 [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean chemicals maker Kumho Petrochemical Co. has filed a lawsuit against the U.S. government over the imposition of high anti-dumping duties on its synthetic rubber product, industry sources said Monday. In July, the U.S. Department of Commerce slapped anti-dumping duties of 44.3 percent on emulsion styrene butadiene rubber [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 8 (Korea Bizwire) – LG Display Co. said Friday it will tap deeper into the organic light-emitting diode (OLED) light business by launching the new brand Luflex as it announced the operation of a new production facility. The South Korean display maker said the launch follows the operation of the world’s largest OLED [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Heavy Industries Co., one of the world’s leading shipbuilders, said Wednesday that it will raise 1.5 trillion won (US$1.3 billion) in a rights issue by May to improve its financial status. The capital increase “is aimed at paying corporate bonds and other debts maturing in 2018, as well [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — Three out of 10 shipowning company managers said they are likely to order new ships within the next 12 months, according to an industry report, in a sign that the maritime sector sees light at the end of the tunnel. SMM, the leading international maritime trade fair that takes [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — SK Innovation Co. said Thursday it has decided to invest more than 1 trillion won (US$925 million) to boost electric vehicle battery production capacity to meet growing demand. The South Korean EV battery maker said it is set to break ground on a 840 million-won plant in Hungary in [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 27 (Korea Bizwire) – Samsung SDS announced on Sunday it has won a contract for the Seoul Metropolitan Government’s new information strategy planning project, which could see blockchain technology adopted throughout the local government’s network. Through the new project, the Seoul government will develop a new blockchain model which could be adopted in various [...]