SEOUL, Jan. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — Sales of eco-friendly SUVs, including ones powered by hydrogen, jumped last year as fuel and environment-conscious customers increasingly opted for such cars, industry data showed Sunday. According to the Korea Automobile Manufacturers’ Association (KAMA), some 48,700 eco-friendly SUVs were sold here last month, accounting for 8.5 percent of the [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — Hyundai Motor Co. and its affiliate Kia Motors Corp. said Thursday their combined sales in the United States rose 4.6 percent last year, helped by robust sales of SUVs. In 2019, Hyundai and Kia sold a combined 1,304,109 vehicles in the world’s most important automobile market, up 4.6 percent [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — Sales of sport utility vehicle models in South Korea hit a record high last year as carmakers strengthened their SUV lineups to meet rising demand for recreational vehicles, industry data showed Thursday. For the whole of 2019, the country’s five automakers, including Hyundai Motor Co. and Kia Motors Corp., [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — Shinsegae Department Store, one of South Korea’s leading retailers, said Tuesday that its outlet in Gangnam, an affluent area in southern Seoul, reported 2 trillion won (US$1.7 billion) in accumulated sales last year. It marks the first time for a single department store branch to achieve the milestone, the [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — Imported car sales in South Korea fell 6.1 percent in 2019 from a year earlier as Japanese brands struggled with a boycott amid trade tensions between Seoul and Tokyo, an industry association said Monday. The number of newly registered foreign vehicles fell to 244,780 units last year from the [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — Hyundai Motor Co. said Monday that it sold over 50,000 Palisade sport utility vehicle models in the domestic market last year, helping buoy the carmaker’s annual sales. For the whole of 2019, 52,299 Palisades were sold here following its launch in January, Hyundai sales data showed. Some potential SUV [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co. said Friday it shipped more than 6.7 million Galaxy 5G smartphones last year, solidifying its top dog status in the global 5G handset market. With solid shipment performance, Samsung said it accounted for 53.9 percent of the global 5G smartphone market as of November 2019, citing [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co., the world’s largest producer of memory chips and smartphones, is expected to see its earnings improve this year after bottoming out in the fourth quarter of last year, on the back of a recovery in the global chipmaking sector and a low base effect, analysts said [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s passenger vehicle sales fell 3.8 percent last year as an economic slowdown weighed on demand for their models at home and abroad, industry data showed Thursday. For all of 2019, the five carmakers — Hyundai Motor Co., Kia Motors Corp., GM Korea Co., Renault Samsung Motors Corp. [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — The demand for luxury cars in South Korea increased sharply in 2019 from a year earlier, data showed Sunday, despite the overall decrease in the sales of imported cars here. Sales of imported luxury cars with price tags of 300 million won (US$255,972) or higher reached 360 units over [...]