South korea

South Korea's SMART SMR Gets a New Life

(NucNet) The government of South Korea and the King Abdullah City for Atomic and Renewable Energy in Saudi Arabia have updated their agreement to create a joint…

Kia Launches $25bn Strategy to Spearhead Shift to EVs

South Korean auto giant Kia Motors yesterday launched a long-term strategy to become a leader in electric vehicles (EVs) and mobility services, sketching out a …

Nuclear Power Plant

Expansion of Wolsong Used Fuel StoreApproved

South Korea's Nuclear Safety and Security Commission (NSSC) today approved Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power's (KHNP) application to construct additional capacity for…

Nuclear Technology

Korea, Saudi Arabia Progress with SMART Collaboration

A revised pre-project engineering contract has been signed by South Korea's Ministry of Science and ICT (MSIT) and Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah City for Atomic …

Electric Car

Uber And Hyundai Motor Plan to Jointly Develop Electric Air Taxis

U.S. ride-hailing company Uber Technologies Inc and South Korean automaker Hyundai Motor plan to jointly develop electric air taxis, they said on Tuesday, joini…

Doosan Deploying First Large-Class Gas Turbine for Korean Demonstration Project

South Korea has formally entered into the large gas turbine global competition by starting locally.

South Korea Plans to Build World’s First Hydrogen Towns

South Korea plans to build the world’s first ‘hydrogen cities’ to promote the hydrogen economy.

Fine Dust Emissions Down 36 pct on Coal Plant Capture

South Korea's fine dust emissions from coal-based power plants moved down 36 percent in the first three weeks of December from a year earlier, data showed Monda…

Nuclear Power Plant

South Korea Approves Permanent Shutdown of 2nd-oldest Reactor

Nuclear operator Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power approved last year the shutdown of the Wolsong No.1 nuclear reactor earlier than planned, as part of the country's …

Astels

ASTELS is the official representative of LS IS in the Republic of Kazakhstan and the only manufacturer of AVL-1200 vacuum circuit breakers (6/10/12 kV) under t…

Solar Technology

UNIST Create New Transparent Solar Cell for Solar Windows

South Korean scientists have transformed an opaque crystalline silicon solar cell into a transparent one by punching holes into it measuring around 100 μm in d…

Oil and Gas Technology

South Korean Biochem Company Starts Biodiesel-Petrol Mix Production

SK Chemicals, South Korea's top biofuel producer, has begun research to mix its biodiesel with petroleum-based fuels to produce low-sulfur marine oil that will …

South Korea Shuts Down 10 Coal-Fired Power Plants to Curb Pollution

The shutdown comes after the government said last month it would idle up as much as 15 coal-fired power plants between December and February, while its remainin…

Solar Power Plant

South Korea Plans World’s Largest Floating Solar Plant in Yellow Sea

The Saemangeum Investment Agency of Koreatogether with Amsterdam Capital Partners, G8 Subsea , and Saemangeum Offshore Wind Powerhave agreed to cooperate toward…

Crude

Asia Seen Adequately Prepared for Deeper OPEC Crude Output Cuts

Asia appears well prepared for OPEC's new crude production cut era as Chinese, South Korean and Japanese refiners' flexible feedstock procurement strategies wou…