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By Jung Park (Bloomberg) — As if investors in Asia’s troubled corporate bond markets don’t have enough to worry about, concern is mounting about

SEOUL, Dec 10 (Reuters) – South Korean shipbuilder Hyundai Heavy Industries Co Ltd received a $650 million order to build 10 ships for Iran’s

SEOUL, Nov 15 (Reuters) – South Korea’s Hyundai Heavy Industries is being split into four companies, with its non-shipbuilding businesses being

By Jiyeun Lee, Kanga Kong and Kyunghee Park (Bloomberg) — South Korea, home to the world’s three biggest shipbuilders, plans to spend about 11

By Joyce Lee and Cynthia Kim SEOUL, Oct 31 (Reuters) – South Korea said on Monday it plans to establish a state-backed ship financing company with an

By Kyunghee Park (Bloomberg) — South Korea’s shipbuilding industry — home to the world’s top three manufacturers — has eliminated

by Jiyeun Lee (Bloomberg) Extravagant dinners with whiskey and wine, golfing weekends, pricey beef and seafood gift sets. South Korean companies are trying to

By Joyce Lee (Reuters)  South Korea’s Samsung Heavy Industries Co Ltd said on Friday its board of directors have approved a plan to raise about 1.1

by Kyunghee Park (Bloomberg) Samsung Heavy Industries Co., the world’s third-largest shipbuilder, reported a quarterly loss that was bigger than estimates as

SEOUL, June 20 (Reuters) – Two Vietnamese crewmen on a South Korean fishing vessel in the Indian Ocean have allegedly stabbed and killed the ship’s

By Christopher Langner (Bloomberg) — Now, the ship really has sailed. After kicking the can down the waterway for a few years, Korean banks will have to

High waves have forced salvage crews to delay the operation to lift the sunken Sewol ferry in South Korea until later this month. The lifting of vessel kicked

By Kyunghee Park (Bloomberg) — The world’s three biggest shipyards, battered by the deepest industry slump in at least two decades, are getting a

By Nikita Mathur and Kyunghee Park (Bloomberg) — Hyundai Merchant Marine Co., South Korea’s second-biggest shipping company, fell the most in three

SEOUL, June 1 (Reuters) – The lead creditors of two of South Korea’s biggest shipbuilders have provisionally approved plans by Hyundai Heavy

By Joyce Lee GEOJE, South Korea, June 1 (Reuters) – Geoje Island, off the southeastern tip of the Korean peninsula, appears as prosperous as ever:

By Kyunghee Park (Bloomberg) — South Korean shipbuilder STX Offshore & Shipbuilding Co. filed for court protection, the latest trouble to surface in

By Jiyeun Lee (Bloomberg) — The South Korean government’s push to restructure debt-laden companies is set to cost tens of thousands of workers their

By Christine Kim SEOUL, May 12 (Reuters) – They are South Korea’s “too-big-to-fail” firms – the world’s largest

By Kyunghee Park (Bloomberg) — Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering Co., the world’s second-biggest shipbuilder, posted a first-quarter loss