SEOUL, Apr. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — Having bagged a crucial win at home, South Korean champions Ulsan HD FC will now visit Japanese foes Yokohama F. Marinos this week as they chase their first Asian club football title in four years. Ulsan and Yokohama will square off in the second leg of the semifinals of [...]
SEOUL, Apr. 16 (Korea Bizwire) – Two-time reigning South Korean champions Ulsan HD FC will battle Japanese side Yokohama F. Marinos this month for a spot in the final of the top Asian club football tournament. The two teams will clash in the two-legged semifinals of the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) Champions League, with Ulsan [...]
SEJONG, Jan. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — In South Korea, Ulsan has emerged as the city with the highest average salary for office workers, significantly outpacing other regions including Jeju, which has the lowest wages among the 17 cities and provinces. This disparity was highlighted in a report by Yang Kyung-sook, a member of the National Assembly’s [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — Korea Electric Power Corp. (KEPCO) on Thursday issued a public apology over a massive power outage that hit the southeastern industrial city of Ulsan the previous day. The blackout occurred at around 3:37 p.m. in a southern residential district of Ulsan, about 300 kilometers southeast of Seoul, due to a malfunctioning [...]
ULSAN, Nov. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — Hyundai Motor Co., South Korea’s largest automaker, held a groundbreaking ceremony Monday for a dedicated electrical vehicle (EV) manufacturing plant in the country’s southeastern industrial city of Ulsan, with a goal of producing 200,000 vehicles annually, starting in 2026. Hyundai will spend 2 trillion won ($1.51 billion) to build [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 18 (Korea Bizwire) – The SK Geocentric Ulsan ARC (Advanced Recycling Cluster), which is expected to be built near the Ulsan Complex (CLX) petrochemical complex, is gaining attention as Ulsan’s ‘urban oil field.’ The Ulsan ARC is the world’s first plastic waste recycling complex, conceived by SK Innovation subsidiary SK Geocentric with an investment [...]
ULSAN, Sept. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — SK Group plans to invest 8 trillion won (US$6.02 billion) to transform its main refinery and chemical complex in the country’s southeast into eco-friendly businesses, its chief has said. Chey Tae-won, chairman of SK Group, made the announcement as he reinforced the company’s commitment to shifting its key areas [...]
ULSAN, May 15 (Korea Bizwire) — The Ulsan Metropolitan Government said Sunday it has been selected by the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy for a project aimed at ensuring the performance and safety of primary components for electric and hydrogen cars. This project facilitates collaboration between local governments specializing in hydrogen and electric vehicle [...]
ULSAN, April 24 (Korea Bizwire) — The southeastern coastal city of Ulsan is setting up artificial bass spawning grounds around Samho Island in the Taehwa River to eradicate the bass, a fish species that has been invasive to the local ecosystem. The bass eggs found in the artificial spawning grounds will be removed by city [...]
ULSAN, Feb. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — So-called “special contributors” from Afghanistan delivered their thanks to the local community in a variety of ways, one year after settling in the southeastern city of Ulsan after fleeing their country taken over by the Taliban. On behalf of about 150 Afghan special contributors and their families settling in [...]