South Korean government ministry overseeing national climate policy, energy supply and the power grid, and environmental regulation.
South Korea will put 1,000 trillion won of fiscal and financial support into its K-GX green plan through 2035, alongside 220 trillion won of private projects. Spread over ten years, that is 100 trillion won a year from the state against 22 trillion won from companies.
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Bank of Korea official Kim Dong-sup said the bank has no plan for a retail CBDC and only banks can hold Project Hangang's digital money. Commercial banks keep the customer in a pilot already used for a government EV-charger subsidy.
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Korea's climate ministry targets commercial tandem solar cells by 2028 in a roadmap that will shape the country's 2028 national R&D investment standards. Superconducting grids go to a new advisory committee that will study the state's role over 10 to 20 years.
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Korea Rural Community Corporation says it could owe 1.3 trillion won in fines if assigned 1 gigawatt of renewables a year and it builds none. The estimate lands as the agriculture ministry fights to keep a farm-water agency out of Korea's renewable quota.
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Korean refiners lost 5 trillion won under the government's oil price cap through June, above the 4.2 trillion won in contingency funds allocated for it. Whether the state budget or the refiners' own books carry the 800 billion won shortfall decides if the cap is a fiscal problem or an earnings one.
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SK Innovation E&S and Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners built 96 megawatts off Shinan for 870 billion won. The 800 megawatts planned next door carry a stated minimum budget of 3.6 trillion won for each 399-megawatt half.
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The Ministry of Climate, Energy and Environment will spend about three months asking a citizen panel how much nuclear power Korea should build. Until that answer lands, the generation mix to 2040 stays unsettled.
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KICT has put radar-based detection of quasi-stationary rainbands and sudden downpours into the Han River Flood Control Office's platform, now piloted in two Seoul districts. The two-hour forecast comes later.
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KEPCO KDN and the Korea Racing Authority had agreed to offer 29.99% of YTN so that large companies could bid. After the Communications Commission and the trade ministry intervened they offered all 30.95%, and three bidders turned up, none of them large.
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Seoul will take cash equity in KEPCO for the first time since its 1989 listing, because a utility carrying 210.7 trillion won of debt cannot borrow fast enough to wire the fabs.
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