SEOUL, Nov. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — Hyundai Rotem Co. said Monday it has signed a comprehensive cooperation agreement with Peru’s Army Weapons and Ammunition Factory (FAME) aimed at exporting ground weapons to the country, including its K2 battle tanks and wheeled armored vehicles. The agreement was made on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation [...]
LIMA, Nov. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — President Yoon Suk Yeol will hold a summit with Chinese President Xi Jinping on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit in Peru on Friday, the presidential office said Thursday. It will be their second summit since their first meeting in Indonesia in November 2022. “The two [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 14 (Korea Bizwire) – Foreign Minister Cho Tae-yul and U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken will hold talks on the margins of the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) meeting in Peru later this week, Seoul’s foreign ministry said Thursday. The talks will take place early Friday (Seoul time) in Lima, where the two [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — President Yoon Suk Yeol will hold a summit with Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba on the sidelines of an Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum in Peru this week, his office said Thursday. Yoon and Ishiba will hold their second meeting on the margins of the APEC summit to [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean automaker KG Mobility Corp. said Thursday it has partnered with general trading firm STX Corp. to supply over 2,000 Rexton Sports pickup trucks to the Peruvian Army by next year. Under the partnership, KG Mobility’s initial supply to the Peruvian Army will consist of around 400 units [...]
SEOUL, May 3 (Korea Bizwire) – The Peruvian Army has chosen South Korea’s K808 White Tiger as the new wheeled armored vehicle to enhance its military capabilities. On May 1, the Peruvian Army’s weapons and munitions provider (FAME) announced that it had selected the South Korean companies Hyundai Rotem (supplier) and STX (contractor) as the priority [...]
SEOUL, May 2 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean defense firm Hyundai Rotem has been selected as a preferred bidder to export 30 K-808 White Tiger wheeled armored vehicles to Peru, the company said Thursday. STX Engine will serve as the main contractor for the deal, while Hyundai Rotem will supply the vehicles to the Peruvian [...]
SEOUL, Mar. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean shipbuilder HD Hyundai Heavy Industries Co. said Friday it has received a US$463 million order in Peru to jointly build four warships with a local shipyard by 2029. Peru’s state-owned shipbuilder SIMA Peru S.A. placed the order for joint production of one 3,400-ton frigate, one 2,200-ton deepwater [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — SK Innovation Co.’s planned sale of its stakes in two Peruvian gas fields to a foreign partner has been canceled amid disapproval from the Peruvian government, a regulatory filing showed Tuesday. The South Korean refiner said in the regulatory filing that its contract with Argentine energy company, Pluspetrol, to [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 1 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea has adopted tougher measures to block the inflow of the lambda variant of the novel coronavirus as the country is struggling to contain the spread of variant cases amid the fourth wave of the pandemic, according to health authorities. The Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency (KDCA) [...]