South Korea is the EU's fourth-largest non-European trading partner,responsible for some 93 billion dollars worth of trade a year.South Korea produces many high-tech products and increasingly the nation is focusing on green technologies. Some of these will be presented at the Hannover Messe later this month. And,in spite of the difficult economic climate,German companies are increasingly targeting South Korea as an export market. Manuela Kasper-Claridge examines what chance cutting-edge technology from Germany has in South Korea and what why the Korean market poses such a challenge.