Rolls-Royce first established a presence in South Korea in 1963, when Rolls-Royce’s engines entered into service with National Airlines. Today, more than 500 Rolls-Royce engines power 350 aircraft operated by Asiana Airlines, the Korean Armed Forces, as well as corporate jet operators.
Rolls-Royce employs over 100 personnel in South Korea across its Aerospace, Marine and Energy businesses. We also have successful partnerships with Korean companies and higher learning institutions.
Rolls-Royce Korea’s regional office is in Seoul and we also have Marine equipment manufacturing, assembly, test, marketing and maintenance services in Busan. These facilities support South Korean and Northeast Asian shipbuilders and operators.
Rolls-Royce established Asia’s first University Technology Centre (UTC) at the Pusan National University (PNU) in February 2008. Founded by grants from Rolls-Royce, Korean central government and Busan Metropolitan city, the PNU UTC is a key element of our technology research on next generation heat exchangers.
Civil Aerospace
- Asiana Airlines selected Trent 900 for its A380 and Trent XWB for its A350XWB aircraft. These aircraft will enter into service from 2014.
Defence Aerospace
- There are over 440 Rolls-Royce engines in operation in the Republic of South Korea’s three military services ranging from helicopters, transports, trainers to anti-submarine aircraft
- Rolls-Royce is working with its partners to introduce EJ200 and CTS-800 for Korean Air Force’s fighter program and Army’s light armed helicopter development.
Marine
- Roll-Royce’s AG9140 provides electric power for the Korean Navy’s KDX III AEGIS destroyers
- Rolls-Royce MT-30 is the most powerful marine gas turbine and an ideal powerplant for the next generation naval vessels with state-of-the-art hybrid propulsion technologies.
Energy
- Rolls-Royce’s aero driven gas turbine engines provide electricity generation and power the compressor equipment for the crude oil and natural gas drilling and production facilities built by Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering, Hyundai Heavy Industries and Samsung Heavy Industries in Angola, Canada, India, Indonesia, Nigeria and Thailand.
