Tour of HD HHI Shipyard in Ulsan, South Korea

Naval News takes you on an exclusive tour of the HD Hyundai Heavy Industries (HHI) shipyard in Ulsan, South Korea. Established in 1972, HD HHI's Ulsan shipyard today is one of the largest shipbuilding facility in the world. The yard spans across 6.8 km² and employs close to 63,000 workers.

During our visit to the Naval and Special Ship unit, we could tour ROKS Jeongjo the Great (the first KDX III Batch II destroyer), ROKS Chungnam (the first FFX Batch III frigate) and the area dedicated to the production and maintenance of submarines.

The visit took place in late November 2024.

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00:24 - Introduction on HD HHI Ulsan shipyard
02:40 - Transition to HD HHI Naval and Special Ship unit
03:58 - ROKS Jeongjo the Great (the first KDX III Batch II destroyer)
06:16 - HD HHI Naval shipbuilding capabilities
09:17 - ROKS Chungnam (the first FFX Batch III frigate)
13:37 - Production and maintenance of submarines
15:45 - Overview of HD HHI's ongoing and future projects

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[MrTagahuron]

South Korea, your shipbuilding is very impressive!

[MrYogidoo]

Nice to see this arsenal of democracy.

[jclulu]

Korean shipbuilders including HHI, Hanwha Ocean and Samsung Heavy Industries are the world's largest with most advanced technologies. Thanks Naval News for sharing a wonderful video.

[Lukas-gcwn]

Damn, thats impressive. I wish we had that kind of shipbuilding here in Germany. Greetings

[glm]

Greetings from Philippines HHI HD 🇵🇭🇰🇷

[victolee]

I thank the countries that helped in the Korean War. Thanks to you, Korea has been honored.

[robbullaag]

Nice, Xavier. Your report is as impressive as the HHI Ship Building Facility itself.

[nxstriggergaming]

Great shipyard. Greetings from Pakistan ❤️🇵🇰

[댕댕이-xb]

SOUTH KOREA IS GOOD PARTNER FOR US NAVY

[phil_nebula]

It's such a massive shipyard! Building 2 of 3 KDX-2 Batch II aegis destroyer, 1 of 6, and FFX-Batch III frigate for the ROKN, while for export 2 Miguel Malvar-class frigate, 6 unammed 2, 400 tons offshore patrol vessel for the Philippine Navy, and soon will assist Peru to built one New 3, 400-ton frigate at SEMA shipyard, along with one 2, 200-ton OPV, and one Logistics Support Vessel (LSV), along witg follow-on orders!

[bombbange]

South Korea's shipbuilding industry will be a great partner for the U.S. Navy. We are the only U.S. ally that still maintains an awesome military industry. We will be of great help to the new Pacific military strategy envisioned by the U.S. We hope that South Korea and the U.S. will cooperate a lot. Just like the U.S. helped South Korea a lot 70 years ago! We will stand against China together

[ernestty]

Excellent Exclusive access once again!

[lipshaha]

I’m very proud of my city, Ulsan. We can make excellent naval shields for democracy.

[joniscoboloski]

Amazing that Korea can build a better and cheaper destroyer than the original designers of the US of A!

[ekstensivelightssounds]

Excellent Experience and 63, 000 Employee that Massive❤❤❤

[php]

This shipyard is currently working on the <redacted> submarines for the <redacted> navy. I am surprised this guy was allowed to get so close to one of those <redacted> class submarines.

[denault]

Very impressive ships, looks like the Jeongjo the Great destroyer class is superior to the US Arleigh Burke's, it even has 96 missle tubes like Chinese ships.
Maybe the US should be buying Korean ships, I bet there delivered on time, on budget and work correctly.

[_joapa]

Besides the massive shipyard, you can clearly see how massive Jeongjo the Great is compared to Chungnam class frigate. The DDG makes it look so tiny!

[ysh]

Hyundai makes everything from cars to tanks

[Nainara]

This is the part where I think US industrial policy is misfiring. The DoD should leverage Korean and Japanese construction capacity for merchant marine and surface combatants instead of trying to replicate it domestically without the benefit of commercial shipbuilding economies of scale. The Jones act also needs an update to include vessels from strategically aligned nations.