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South Korean government ministry overseeing trade policy, industrial strategy, and energy supply, including trade negotiations and energy security.
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South Korea named Changwon a national aircraft-engine hub backed by a 773.1 billion won plan to lift core-part localization from 22% to 90% by 2035. Orders for local parts makers still depend on a national engine program whose main phase is due to launch in 2028.
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South Korea's Board of Audit and Inspection says the trade ministry called the compressed schedule unworkable and produced it anyway, and it priced the rushed rig charter at 4.3 billion won. Saturation came in at 6.3%.
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WTI at about $102 has widened the gap between Singapore product prices and the capped price Korean refiners may charge at home. The industry puts its losses at 5 trillion won. No first settlement has been completed.
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The trade ministry summoned Korea's four refiners on the 14th to weigh paying more of the freight gap on crude from the Americas, Africa and Southeast Asia. September and October cargoes are already more than 90% secured.
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Hyundai's 9 trillion won of committed capital at Saemangeum has a groundbreaking date, a GPU count and a robot output target. Who buys the robots is still being worked out between the agency and the trade ministry.
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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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A single large US reactor runs about $15bn, so eight would absorb $120bn of the $200bn Korea pledged to secure lower tariffs. The framework being signed fixes two units, and an LNG plant in Encinal, Texas goes first.
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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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The Korea Fabless Industry Association's chairman says R&D money cannot buy a reference customer, and asks the state to be the first buyer instead. One unnamed official backs concentrating the cash.
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The National Police Agency is reassigning 79 officers into overseas-leak units and doubling the dedicated teams in Seoul and southern Gyeonggi. Insiders were the source in 60 of 68 cases through July.
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The final enforcement decree of Korea's semiconductor competitiveness act deletes the clause that would have barred the capital region from applying, and softens four more non-capital preferences.
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Hypermarket share of Korean retail fell 13.6 points since 2018 while online passed half of all sales. New research finds neighbouring shops gain when the malls open.
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Yeo Han-koo was abruptly removed as head of Korea's trade negotiations office with no stated reason, while, opposition parties say, Washington presses Seoul to accelerate a $350 billion investment pledge.
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