News Pompidou Centre plans museums in Saudi Arabia and South Korea Paris’ Pompidou Centre for modern and contemporary art has announced plans to open branches in Saudi Arabia and South Korea. In Saudi Arabia, the centre has signed an agreement to…
News South Korea’s SGC to help Vietnam convert coal plants to biomass SGC Energy, a South Korean renewables company, is to work with Vietnamese power engineering consultant PECC1 to convert coal power plants into biomass-burning facilities, Bioenergy Insight reports.
News Samsung reveals plan to invest $230bn in Seoul chip factories over next 20 years Samsung Electronics has revealed plans to invest $230bn over the 20 years to develop the world’s largest silicon chip fabrication industry. The company, which is the world’s largest maker of…
News South Korea to work on building Thailand’s first spaceport The Republic of Korea and Thailand have agreed to work together on a Thai spaceport. The Yonhap news agency reports that Korea’s Ministry of Science has signed a deal with…
News South Korea offers to build four reactors for Turkey The Korea Electric Power Corporation (Kepco) said yesterday that it had contacted the government of Turkey to propose the construction of four reactors with a total power output of 5.6GW,…
News South Korea, UAE eye projects worth $6.1bn South Korean president Yoon Suk-yeol’s state visit to the UAE has resulted in 24 memorandums of understanding covering projects worth an estimated $6.1bn, Korea.net reports. The agreements were signed on…
News Kohn Pedersen Fox designs 50ha Seoul neighbourhood on former US military base New York architect Kohn Pedersen Fox (KPF) has unveiled its design for Parkside Seoul, a 50ha mixed-use neighbourhood located on a former US military headquarters in the centre of the…
News Korean group in line to build, operate $1.6bn Paraguayan light railway A consortium led by the Korea Overseas Infrastructure & Urban Development Corporation appears set to win a contract to build and operate a light railway in the Paraguayan capital Asunción,…
News Battery boom: Korea’s LG Chem to build $3.2bn cathode plant in Tennessee South Korea’s largest chemical company, LG Chem, plans to build a $3.2bn factory in the US state of Tennessee to make cathodes for electric vehicle (EV) batteries. It signed a…
News South Korea’s new president wants nuclear U-turn South Korea appears set to reverse its moratorium on new nuclear power stations imposed after the Fukushima Daiichi disaster of 2011.