SEOUL, March 27 (Korea Bizwire) – Kia Motors Corp., South Korea’s second-biggest carmaker by sales, said Monday it will domestically launch its Stinger sports sedan in May in a move to strengthen its premium lineup. In the domestic market, the high-performance car will be the carmaker’s first sedan which will carry an independent Stinger badge [...]
SEOUL, Mar. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — A mid-size South Korean alloy maker has decided to withdraw from the U.S. market after being slapped with prohibitively heavy anti-dumping duty over its exports to the U.S., the trade ministry said Sunday. The U.S. Department of Commerce has recently sealed its decision to levy a 54.69 percent anti-dumping [...]
SEJONG, March 23 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea’s top economic policymaker said Thursday that the government will offer liquidity to cash-strapped Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering Co. in a timely manner if all stakeholders shoulder losses. “Creditors of Daewoo Shipbuilding have closely looked into all options, which includes the company’s backlogs,” Finance Minister Yoo Il-ho [...]
SEOUL, March 21 (Korea Bizwire) – Commodity prices continued to move up in recent weeks amid rising crude oil prices and the outbreak of the avian influenza, industry sources said Tuesday. Consumer prices rose 1.9 percent in February from a year earlier with comparable figures for January standing at 2 percent. The Bank of Korea [...]
SEOUL, March 21 (Korea Bizwire) – Stocks of Doosan Infracore Co. traded at a yearly high Tuesday as investors scooped up the country’s leading construction equipment maker on hopes for an improved business performance. Doosan Infracore was changing hands at 10,100 won (US$9) on the Seoul bourse as of 1:30 p.m., up 1 percent from [...]
SEOUL, March 20 (Korea Bizwire) – Each and every one of 400 Bolt EV cars set to be delivered here next month was sold in just the first few hours of taking orders, GM Korea Co. said Saturday, reflecting an apparently high interest by local consumers in the new electric car. The company began taking preorders for the Chevrolet Bolt EV on Friday. “All 400 units in the first shipment were gone in just two hours,” said an official from the South Korean unit [...]
SEOUL, March 20 (Korea Bizwire) – While Lotte is suffering the most from China’s retaliatory measures over South Korea’s deployment of a THAAD missle system – with almost 90 of 99 Lotte Mart outlets in China temporarily closed – other firms exporting to the country are struggling with customs clearance procedures that have become overly [...]
SEOUL, March 20 (Korea Bizwire) – Diesel cars are locked in a tight race with gasoline-powered models for a bigger slice of South Korea’s imported vehicle market as diesel cars increasingly lose favor with local motorists following “dieselgate” in 2015, data showed Monday. According to the industry data, 8,058 imported gasoline cars were sold in [...]
SEOUL, March 17 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea’s agency handling trade remedies said Friday that it has decided to extend the current anti-dumping tariffs imposed on some foreign stainless steel products by three additional years. The Korea Trade Commission said it will ask the finance ministry to continue to slap anti-dumping tariffs of 3.56 to [...]
SEOUL, March 17 (Korea Bizwire) – GM Korea Co., the South Korean unit of U.S. automaker General Motors Co., will recall over 66,000 cars sold here for engine and software issues that will also lead to over 1 billion won in penalties, the transportation ministry said Friday. The Next Spark minicar was found to have [...]