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South Korea Says FU To Diesel Cheating While Tesla Model 3 Customers Form Long Lines

August 22, 2019 admin Audi, batteries, cars, clean transport, cleantechnica, cleantechnica exclusive, consumer technology, electric cars, Electric vehicles, Energy Storage, green economy, Hyundai, Kia, lithium-ion batteries, Manufacturing, policy & politics, porsche, South korea, tesla, tesla south korea, Volkswagen, volkswagen group

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2019 04:07:25 +0000

South Korea is an interesting case in “Electric Vehicle World.” LG Chem, probably the most notable EV battery company not connected to Tesla, is based there. It seems like LG Chem has battery contracts with every single automaker (it might be more like 60%). SK Innovation and Samsung SDI, medium-sized battery producers, also call Korea home. And then there are Hyundai and Kia, or Hyundai–Kia if you combine them due to their intertwined investment structure. These large automakers have produced highly acclaimed electric vehicles, but they struggle to produce a large number of them — or just don’t care to do so

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S. Korea says N. Korea has fired 2 more projectiles into sea

August 16, 2019 admin international news, Latest News Stories, Missile, North korea, South korea, weapons tests, World, World News

Credit to Author: jvicente| Date: Fri, 16 Aug 2019 06:42:29 +0000

SEOUL, South Korea — South Korea’s military said North Korea fired two projectiles into the sea Friday to extend a recent streak of weapons tests believed to be aimed at pressuring Washington and Seoul over slow nuclear diplomacy. South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff said the projectiles launched from the North’s eastern coast flew about […]

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Japan’s Abe sends offering to controversial Yasukuni shrine

August 14, 2019 admin China, History, Japan, Latest News Stories, South korea, World, ww ii, yasukuni

Credit to Author: mfrialde| Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2019 02:39:50 +0000

TOKYO — Japan’s premier sent a ritual cash offering to a controversial Tokyo war shrine to mark the end of World War II Thursday but did not visit in person amid heightened tensions with South Korea. Abe Shinzo sent an aide to Yasukuni Shrine, seen by Asian neighbors as a symbol of Japan’s military past, […]

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S. Korea to acquire more anti-missile radars, interceptors to counter NK threats

August 14, 2019 admin anti-missile radars, Asia, Latest News Stories, North korea, South korea, World

Credit to Author: hniitsu| Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2019 08:11:09 +0000

SEOUL — South Korea plans to add two more ground-based anti-missile early warning radars and build three Aegis-equipped destroyers in the next five years in an effort to better detect and intercept incoming missiles from North Korea, the defense ministry said Wednesday. The plan was one of the key projects that the ministry unveiled in its five-year […]

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Searching for lost land: S. Korea seeks to retrieve property seized by Japan

August 14, 2019 admin Asia, Diplomacy, Japan, land, Latest News Stories, Property, South korea, World

Credit to Author: hniitsu| Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2019 07:58:45 +0000

SEOUL — When Korea was under Japan’s colonial rule from 1910 to 1945, many Koreans lost their houses and land to the Japanese. A significant portion of Korean property was forcefully taken by the Japanese military and sold cheaply to its residents. The fledging Korean government, established in 1948, pledged to retrieve the property from the Japanese […]

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Pyongyang lambasts Seoul over military exercise with US

August 11, 2019 admin Asia, Diplomacy, Latest News Stories, military exercise, North korea, politics, South korea, US, World

Credit to Author: cmiranda| Date: Sun, 11 Aug 2019 10:31:03 +0000

SEOUL — North Korea has slammed South Korea for the latter’s combined military exercise with the United States, which kicked off Sunday, saying it will not interact with the South until there is a plausible explanation for the “war exercise.” In a Foreign Ministry statement, released a day after it launched what are believed to be short-range […]

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Trash shipment readied for return to South Korea

August 9, 2019 admin Headlines, john simon, mindanao container terminal subport collector, Misamis Oriental, plastic garbage, Regions, South korea

Credit to Author: clopez| Date: Fri, 09 Aug 2019 21:10:34 +0000

CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY—The remaining 5,177 metric tons of mostly plastic garbage from South Korea that arrived in Misamis Oriental province last year would be sent back to that country soon, a Bureau of Customs (BOC) official here said on Thursday. But John Simon, Mindanao Container Terminal subport collector, said the BOC Northern Mindanao regional […]

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S. Korea, China, Japan top envoys to gather in Beijing to discuss N. Korean missile tests

August 7, 2019 admin Asia, Diplomacy, Foreign affairs, international relations, Japan, Latest News Stories, North korea, South korea, World

Credit to Author: hniitsu| Date: Thu, 08 Aug 2019 02:36:58 +0000

Discussions are underway for a foreign ministers’ meeting later this month in Beijing, where South Korea, China and Japan can discuss issues concerning Northeast Asia ahead of a trilateral summit expected to take place before the end of the year.

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North Korea fires projectiles twice into sea, says South Korea

August 5, 2019 admin Kim Jong Un, Latest News Stories, missiles, North korea, projectiles, South korea, World, World News

Credit to Author: ggaviola| Date: Tue, 06 Aug 2019 00:30:16 +0000

SEOUL, South Korea – North Korea on Tuesday continued to ramp up its weapons demonstrations by firing unidentified projectiles twice into the sea while lashing out at the United States and South Korea for continuing their joint military exercises that the North says could derail fragile nuclear diplomacy.

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Koreans hold candlelight vigil to protest Abe government

August 4, 2019 admin Asia, Foreign relations, Japan, Latest News Stories, protest, South korea, trade war, World

Credit to Author: cmiranda| Date: Sun, 04 Aug 2019 11:33:05 +0000

SEOUL — Some 680 civic groups held a candlelight vigil over the weekend in protest of the Japanese government’s decision to take South Korea off a list of preferred trading partners and to call on Tokyo to apologize for war crimes it committed in World War II.

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