SEOUL, Jul. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea has laid the keel for its second 3,600-ton class naval submarine, the state arms procurement agency said Friday, amid efforts to acquire advanced diesel-electric attack submarines for enhanced underwater capabilities against North Korean threats. A keel-laying ceremony for the second of three Changbogo-III Batch-II class submarines took [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — LS Cable & System Ltd., South Korea’s biggest cable company, said Tuesday it has received a 100 billion-won (US$72 million) order to supply submarine cables to an electricity grid operator in the United States. In the deal with LS Power Grid California, LS Cable will provide undersea cables for [...]
SEOUL, May 31 (Korea Bizwire) — Hanwha Ocean Co., a shipbuilding and defense industry unit of South Korea’s Hanwha Group, said Friday it has partnered with three Canadian technology firms to enhance cooperation as part of its effort to bid for Canada’s maritime procurement project. During Canada’s Global Defence & Security Trade Show in Ottawa, [...]
ULSAN, Apr. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean shipbuilder HD Hyundai Heavy Industries Co. on Thursday delivered a 3,000-ton diesel submarine to the Navy, which will serve as a key asset to deter threats posed by North Korea. The submarine, named after famous Korean independence activist Shin Chae-ho (1880-1936), was delivered to the Navy at [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean shipbuilding giant HD Hyundai Heavy Industries Co. said Wednesday it will cooperate with British defense titan Babcock to jointly develop a submarine for exports. To that end, officials of both companies recently held a meeting at HD Hyundai Heavy’s research and development center in Seongnam, south of [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 22 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korean shipbuilder Hanwha Ocean clinched a 1.1 trillion-won (US$845 million) deal Friday to build a 3,600-ton submarine for the Navy, the state procurement agency said. Hanwha Ocean signed the deal with the Defense Acquisition Program Administration (DAPA) to construct the third and last submarine under the Changbogo-III Batch-II [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — A U.S. nuclear-powered submarine arrived in South Korea on Wednesday, one day after North Korea’s latest launch of a military spy satellite. The USS Santa Fe (SSN-763), a Los Angeles-class submarine, entered the Jeju Naval Base on the southern resort island in the morning, the South Korean Navy said, [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — A 1,200-ton South Korean submarine has achieved 300,000 miles of accident-free maritime operations in a milestone underscoring the Navy’s enhanced underwater operational capabilities, the armed service said Monday. A ceremony celebrating the ROKS Park Wi’s achievement was set to take place at the Submarine Force Command in Changwon, some [...]
SEOUL, July 29 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea and the United States staged combined anti-submarine drills, involving a U.S. nuclear-powered submarine, in waters south of the Korean Peninsula on Saturday, Seoul’s Navy said, amid joint efforts to reinforce readiness against North Korean military threats. The exercise took place in waters south of the southern island [...]
BUSAN, July 19 (Korea Bizwire) — A close look at an imposing U.S. nuclear-capable strategic submarine in the southeastern city of Busan threw into sharp relief what America has billed as an “enduring” and “ironclad” commitment to South Korea in the face of growing North Korean threats. The partially submerged, pitch-black USS Kentucky, an 18,750-ton [...]