In March 2015, KAERI signed an agreement with Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah City for Nuclear and Renewable Energy KA-CARE to assess the potential for building at least two South Korean SMART reactors in that country.
The kingdom has no industrial nuclear power plants, but has big plans for developing nuclear energy.
During the nuclear talks between Iran and P5+1 group of countries - the five permanent members of the UN Security Council plus Germany - in mid-2015, Saudi Arabia signed agreements with France, Russia and South Korea for the construction of nuclear facilities.