Last mentioned: Mar 26, 2026
PDAC Convention
Philippine delegation attends the global mining convention in Toronto to court Canadian investors.
US-Philippines Ministerial
Secretary Marco Rubio hosts Manila officials to sign critical minerals MOU in Washington.
Structural Reform Deadline
Analysts call for a fully articulated national strategy to transition to domestic processing.
South Korea State Visit
President Lee Jae Myung visits Manila to sign AI, defense, and mineral agreements.
South Korea Industrial Data
Statistics Korea reports a 1.7% drop in industrial output for January, raising concerns about Asian manufacturing demand.
STAAR Surgical Results
STAAR Surgical reports narrowed Q4 losses, mirroring the efficiency gains seen in other specialized manufacturing sectors.
Indian Market Holiday
Indian markets remain closed for Holi, pausing trading in one of the world's fastest-growing logistics hubs.
Plug Power Earnings
Plug Power announces a narrowed loss per share for the fourth quarter, boosting confidence in hydrogen logistics.
The escalating conflict in Iran has severely disrupted Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) shipments through the Strait of Hormuz, forcing major Asian economies to pivot back to coal. This shift, driven by energy security imperatives, threatens to derail regional decarbonization goals while highlighting the fragility of global maritime energy corridors.
The Philippines is aggressively pursuing international partnerships with the US, South Korea, and Canada to unlock $1 trillion in critical mineral reserves. However, analysts warn that the lack of a coherent national roadmap and structural reforms may prevent the country from transitioning to a high-value processing hub.
Plug Power reported a narrowed loss for the fourth quarter, signaling progress in the commercialization of hydrogen fuel cell technology for the logistics sector. Meanwhile, a contraction in South Korean industrial output highlights persistent volatility in the global manufacturing supply chain.
This page surfaces every story mentioning South Korea across our supply chain coverage. We track each entity's appearance over time so readers can trace how the narrative evolves — which developments are isolated incidents, which build into longer arcs, and which reframe how operators in the space think about the entity. Story selection uses the same multi-source verification gate applied across the rest of our coverage.
Read our editorial methodology for how we identify, deduplicate, and score entity references. Our glossary defines the technical terms used across stories on this page, and our trends index contextualizes individual developments against the longer-running supply chain beat. Cross-entity comparisons live on our compare view.
| What you see | What it tells you |
|---|---|
| Story count | Number of distinct stories where South Korea was a primary or referenced actor. |
| Recency clustering | Whether mentions are concentrated in a recent window (a news cycle) or distributed (a sustained arc). |
| Sentiment distribution | Aggregate sentiment of the stories mentioning this entity, weighted by impact score. |
| Cross-niche links | When the same entity surfaces in our sibling networks, we link to those views to enrich context. |