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Ex-welder Seeks to Get Her Job Back After 35 Years

SEOUL, Sept. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — In 2011, Kim Jin-suk climbed up a shipyard crane in a high-profile protest against the dismissal of hundreds of workers at midsized shipbuilder Hanjin Heavy Industries & Construction Co. The labor activist of the Korean Confederation of Trade Unions came down from the 35-meter-high tower crane in the southeastern [...]

Hanjin Heavy to Build S. Korea’s 1st Very Large Oil Spill Response Vessel

BUSAN, Nov. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — Hanjin Heavy Industries & Construction Co., a midsized shipyard in South Korea, said Wednesday it has won a 70-billion-won (US$60 million) order to build the country’s first multi-purpose very large oil spill response vessel (OSRV). Under the deal with state-run Korea Marine Environment Management Corporation, Hanjin Heavy will deliver [...]