LG Electronics on Tuesday signed an agreement with Jeju Special Self-Governing Province, Jeju Development Corp and the Korea Institute of Industrial Technology to push a project to electrify cooling and heating in multi-family housing and to run a Power to Heat pilot. The company will install heat pumps at a lived-in apartment complex in Seogwipo, its first such domestic demonstration. The project combines household heat pumps with a central hot-water P2H system and aims to use operating data for wider deployment.

Baemin’s quick commerce platform is expanding its role as a sales channel for regional farms, Woowa Brothers said. Sales of domestically sourced farm and livestock products bought directly from producing areas through Baemin Bmart rose 53 percent in January to May from a year earlier, outpacing last year’s full-year growth rate of 21 percent. Fruit sales led gains, with strong increases for strawberries, melons, watermelons and blueberries.