Mid-sized shipbuilder lands orders for six petrochemical carriers SEOUL, August 26 (AJP) - K Shipbuilding has signed new contracts with shipowners based in Europe and the Middle East to build six carriers for petrochemical products, the midsize shipbuilder said on Wednesday. It said the order, worth about 510 billion won includes two 50,000-ton vessels and four 74,000-ton vessels. They will be built at K Shipbuilding's shipyard in Jinhae, Changwon, South Gyeongsang Province, and delivered gradually starting in the first half of 2028. The August 26, 2026

Asian stocks tread water ahead of Nvidia results SEOUL, August 26 (AJP) — Asian stocks were mostly sidelined Wednesday as investors waited for a cluster of market-moving U.S. events, with South Korea's KOSPI and regional chip shares looking to Nvidia's earnings for their next direction. Markets are bracing for three major catalysts - the U.S. personal consumption expenditures price index, Nvidia's earnings after the bell on Wednesday and Federal Reserve Chairman Kevin Warsh's remarks at the Jackson Hole sympo August 26, 2026

South Korea offered 10 energy infrastructure projects by US SEOUL, August 26 (AJP) - The United States has invited South Korean companies to join a range of investment-development projects to build energy infrastructure and fertilizer plants on American soil, South Korea's transport ministry said. The Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport said Wednesday it would host about 40 executives from construction firms and trading houses on Thursday at a briefing to showcase the opportunities and gauge each company's appetite for tak August 26, 2026

Kia averts strike with tentative wage deal with unionized workers SEOUL, August 26 (AJP) - Unionized workers at Kia, an affiliate of automaker Hyundai Motor, have reached a tentative wage deal, avoiding a planned strike this week. According to industry sources on Wednesday, the tentative deal came after a dozen rounds of negotiations that ran until the last minute the previous day, just hours ahead of a scheduled three-day partial strike, with workers planning to stop work for two to four hours each day through Friday. Under the deal, Kia will August 26, 2026

KATSEYE lands four songs on Billboard Hot 100 SEOUL, August 26 (AJP) - International girl group KATSEYE placed four songs simultaneously on the Billboard Hot 100 this week, extending its U.S. chart breakthrough after scoring its first No. 1 on the Billboard 200 with latest EP WILD. Pre-release single "Animal" climbed six places to No. 24 on the main U.S. singles chart dated Aug. 29, according to Billboard. Title track "Hootie Frutti" debuted at No. 31, giving KATSEYE another top-40 entry. "Pinky August 26, 2026

Freedom Edge to go ahead despite rollback in Korea drills SEOUL, August 26 (AJP) -The United States is preparing to move ahead with a major trilateral military exercise with South Korea and Japan, regardless of the scaled-back annual drills with Seoul ordered by President Donald Trump as he seeks to renew rapport with Pyongyang. “In close coordination with the Japan Self-Defense Forces and the Republic of Korea Armed Forces, U.S. Pacific Command is preparing for the 2026 iteration of exercise Freedom Edge,” Lt. Cmdr. Chloe Mor August 26, 2026

LG CNS, Naver Cloud to cool Korea's biggest AI factory SEOUL, August 26 (AJP) - LG CNS announced Wednesday that it will build next-generation liquid-cooling infrastructure with Naver Cloud at its Samsong data center, moving to capture an early lead in the fast-emerging market for AI-ready computing facilities. The rollout comes as generative AI drives surging power draw and heat from high-performance graphics processing units, straining the conventional air-cooling systems that have long kept server rooms in check. To answer that August 26, 2026

LG pushes gaming monitors to 1,000Hz without sacrificing FHD resolution SEOUL, August 26 (AJP) - LG Electronics on Wednesday launched a gaming monitor capable of running at a 1,000Hz refresh rate while maintaining full-HD resolution, pushing display speeds further as competition intensifies in the premium gaming hardware market. The 25-inch UltraGear 25G590B is the world's first commercially available gaming monitor to natively support a 1,000Hz refresh rate at FHD resolution, according to LG. The company said the claim is based on gaming monitors August 26, 2026

More than half of South Koreans view US unfavorably: Pew Research SEOUL, August 26 (AJP) - More than half of South Koreans now regard the U.S. unfavorably, hitting an all-time high, a recent survey by the Pew Research Center indicates. In a survey of more than 1,000 South Korean adults conducted from March to April this year and released on Monday by the Washington-based think tank, 55 percent expressed an unfavorable view of the U.S., up 16 percentage points from a year earlier. This marked the first time the figure had exceeded 50 percent since August 26, 2026

Tashkent turns Islamic heritage into living technology TASHKENT, August 26 (AJP) -For roughly 40 minutes Tuesday night, the massive façade of Uzbekistan's new Center for Islamic Civilization became a screen for a different telling of Islamic history. Astronomers, physicians, thinkers and poets appeared across the building in light, animation and digital imagery as music accompanied a narrative tracing the contribution of scholars from present-day Uzbekistan and the wider Islamic world to science, medicine, literature August 26, 2026