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South Korean shipbuilder (329180.KS) building naval vessels, offshore substations, and large engines, including capacity for AI data centers.
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Hyundai Glovis signed an MOU on Sept. 30 with Liberty Global Logistics to test whether small-reactor car carriers are viable on Korea-US routes. The agreement moves the reactor ship from engineering approval into the regulatory and commercial questions that decide whether anyone orders one.
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HD Hyundai Heavy Industries will engineer, build, install and commission the offshore substation for a 500MW wind farm off Taean, South Korea. That gives its in-house substation design a paying reference project, and the next test is whether developers outside the buyer's three owners will buy it.
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South Korea launched the Daeho Kim Jong-seo at HD Hyundai Heavy Industries' Ulsan yard, the sixth and last ship of its 19-year Aegis destroyer program. President Lee Jae-myung named nuclear-powered submarines as the Navy's next core asset, so the yard's next multi-year naval order depends on that pledge becoming a funded program.
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The Ulsan memorandum splits more than 1 trillion won between a HiMSEN power engine plant sized at 3 gigawatts and a line for small modular reactor components. The city's contribution is faster permits.
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Strip out seniority step increases and the Ulsan shipbuilder is offering 63,000 won against a 149,600 won demand, with 33 hours of walkouts booked through the 18th and five working days left before Chuseok.
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The company told investors that engine order inflow has already passed what its plant can handle. The expansion is a bet that generation capacity, not compute, is the scarce asset.
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The KOSPI closed up 0.88% on the 21st while the KOSDAQ fell 4.63%. That gap is not risk appetite. It is two chip names promising to hand cash back.
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