State spending on strategic industries to surge 43% next year SEOUL, Sept. 1 (Yonhap) -- Top executives of the Samsung and SK groups are expected to visit Britain and Japan this month to promote South Korea's bid to host the 2030 World Expo in the southern city of Busan, sources said Thursday. Samsung Electronics Vice

State spending on strategic industries to surge 43% next year SEOUL, Aug. 31 (Yonhap) -- South Korea will lift its current pre-travel COVID-19 test requirement for inbound travelers later this week, an official said Wednesday, as the government believes the recent virus wave has passed its peak and the spread of omicron could slow down.

State spending on strategic industries to surge 43% next year Samsung SDS headquarters in Seoul South Korean IT solutions provider Samsung SDS said Thursday it has signed a new partnership with cloud giant Amazon Web Services to bolster bilateral ties and strengthen their corporate cloud business. Under the renewed partnership, Samsung SDS is also joining

State spending on strategic industries to surge 43% next year Former US Ambassador to South Korea Mark Lippert Samsung Electronics America said Wednesday it has hired former US Ambassador to South Korea Mark Lippert as its public relations chief, in an apparent move to better respond to uncertainties surrounding policy changes in the US, especially

State spending on strategic industries to surge 43% next year (Yonhap) Dutch pension fund APG said Thursday it has urged Samsung Electronics Co. and nine other South Korean companies that it has invested in to intensify efforts to reduce carbon emissions. APG, the largest pension fund in the Netherlands, said it has sent a letter

State spending on strategic industries to surge 43% next year SEOUL, Feb. 17 (Yonhap) -- LG Energy Solution Ltd. (LGES) said Thursday it has acquired a U.S.-based energy storage system (ESS) solutions provider as part of efforts to expand its portfolio into all-round energy management services LGES took over a 100 percent stake in NEC

State spending on strategic industries to surge 43% next year SEOUL, Jan. 11 (Yonhap) -- LG Chem Ltd., South Korea's leading chemical materials producer, said Tuesday it will build a new factory in South Korea to produce high-nickel cathode materials for electric vehicle (EV) batteries as it further pushes to upgrade the key battery component

State spending on strategic industries to surge 43% next year By Kim Eun-jung SEOUL, Jan. 11 (Yonhap) -- A South Korean passenger jet that has been grounded in Kazakhstan amid an anti-government protest is expected to return home later this week once the Central Asian nation's largest airport resumes operations, the foreign ministry said Tuesday.

State spending on strategic industries to surge 43% next year SEOUL, Jan. 7 (Yonhap) -- Lotte Chemical Corp., the petrochemical unit of South Korean conglomerate Lotte Group, said Friday it is spending US$3.9 billion over the next three years to build a petrochemical complex in Indonesia. Lotte Chemical signed a preliminary deal with Indonesia's Ministry

State spending on strategic industries to surge 43% next year SEOUL, Jan. 7 (Yonhap) -- Trade volume between South Korea and Britain grew 33 percent for about one year after the implementation of a bilateral free trade deal, the industry ministry said Friday. Seoul and London clinched the bilateral free trade agreement (FTA) in August