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.  

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…

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…

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,…

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…

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…

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,…

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…

South Korea appears set to reverse its moratorium on new nuclear power stations imposed after the Fukushima Daiichi disaster of 2011.