Launching a war on what he called “workplaces of death”, South Korea’s new president Lee Jae Myung says companies will be fined 5% of their operating profits if they record…

Ground has broken on a hydrogen fuel cell production facility in Ulsan, South Korea for Hyundai, with a price tag of US$640m (KRW930bn). The 43,000-sq-m plant will be capable of…

Today at 3.23pm local time, a chartered Boing 747 carrying 316 South Korean engineers and technicians – who just spent six days imprisoned in a detention centre in the US state of Georgia – touched down safely at Seoul’s Incheon International Airport.

Foster + Partners has designed “IOTA Seoul I”, a mixed-use development close to Seoul Station. The three-building development includes a six-star hotel, a 34-storey office building, and a new tourism…

Volvo Construction Equipment will spend just over $260m expanding its capacity to make crawler excavators in South Korea, Sweden and the US to make the factories more self-sufficient and less…

South Korea’s Hyundai Construction Equipment has opened its new “mother plant” in Dong-gu, Ulsan after a $150m modernisation. The new factory combines two existing plants into one 235,000-sq-m facility that…

South Korea’s railway operator, Korea National Railway (KNR), has agreed to advise the company behind Poland’s national transportation upgrade – Centralny Port Komunikacyjny (CPK) – on high-speed rail. CPK will…

UK-headquartered architect Heatherwick Studio has won a design competition to renovate the façade of Seoul’s Coex convention centre, replacing the current glass structure with a “cabinet of curiosities” showcasing fun…

A fire at a Banyan Tree hotel construction site in the South Korean city of Busan today killed six people and injured 25 more, The Straits Times reports. Around 100…

Samsung C&T Engineering & Construction and Swedish energy company Kärnfull Next have signed a preliminary agreement to develop small modular reactor (SMR) projects in Sweden. The two signed a memorandum…

South Korea’s government has dismissed claims from Korean opposition politicians that its bid to build two nuclear reactors in Czechia had been underpriced and that costs would inevitably increase once work began, the Korean Herald reports.

South Korean contractor Daewoo Engineering & Construction said yesterday that it had signed an agreement in principle to team up with China State Construction Engineering Corporation (CSCEC) to bid for…

South Korean food company Nongshim is planning to invest $143m in a “K-Food hub” in the southern city of Busan. The move is part of a drive among the country’s…

UK designers Heatherwick Studio are working with South Korea’s Haeahn Architecture on a makeover of Hanwha Galleria, a twin-building department store in Seoul’s Gangnam ward of Apgujeong-dong, close to the…

Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power (KHNP) has begun negotiations with the Czech Republic to build at least two full-scale reactors. The company, along with consortium partners Doosan Enerbility and Daewoo…

A team of business people and state officials from South Korea visited Vietnam last week to discuss large-scale projects such as urban development and high-speed rail. South Korea hopes to…

The government of South Korea believes its neighbour North Korea will send a force of military engineers to do reconstruction work in the Russian occupied Ukrainian oblast of Donetsk as…

A team made up of Denmark’s 3XN and two South Korean designers, Siaplan and MDA, has won a competition for the Chungnam Art Centre in Chungcheongnam-do, South Korea. The curved…