South Korea’s offshore wind sector hopes its government's grand 'Green New Deal' ambitions, plus the momentum from a growing army of international energy giants queuing to plan projects off its coasts, will finally end what sceptical commentators brand a “decade of failure” over wind at sea.

Norway’s Equinor was just one of the global players to hail South Korea as “an important market” of the future, as it began measurement work in June for a potential 800MW floating project off the coast of Ulsan.