Korea to put KRW 93 billion into a ‘bridge’ programme for early-stage hydrogen technology

A report on HyBridge, a new programme planned by Korea’s Ministry of Science and ICT to carry early-stage hydrogen research through to field demonstration, with a target of KRW 93 billion over eight years. The article notes that Korean hydrogen research ranks at the top globally on measures such as paper citations, while the share of that work that reaches commercialisation outside the lab remains low. Illustrating the piece is a photograph of HydroXpand’s 2 kW AEM electrolyzer stack, captioned as “a 2 kW AEM electrolyzer stack built by the startup HydroXpand on a nickel-iron alloy catalyst.”