SEJONG, Nov. 10 (Korea Bizwire) – Over the past three months, large business groups boasting assets exceeding 5 trillion won have expanded their influence in the automotive and transportation sectors. The Korea Fair Trade Commission recently unveiled the “Status of Changes in Companies Belonging to Large Business Groups (August-October),” revealing that as of November 1, the [...]
SEOUL, April 11 (Korea Bizwire) — Automotive sales channels that have been limited to offline dealers are now expanding towards retail industries, including large discount stores and online malls, amid a shift in the automotive retail paradigm. Large discount store chains E-Mart Inc. and Homeplus Co. each set up a showroom for Hyundai Motor Co.’s [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co., a major electronics parts maker in South Korea, on Thursday said it has developed two types of automotive multi-layer ceramic capacitors (MLCCs) that can be used for the advanced drive assist system (ADAS) as the company targets the future mobility market. Samsung Electro-Mechanics unveiled the 0603-size [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 1 (Korea Bizwire) — Vehicle sales of South Korea’s five carmakers fell 5.5 percent last month from a year earlier on weak overseas demand, corporate data showed Friday. The five carmakers — Hyundai Motor Co., Kia Motors Corp., GM Korea Co., Renault Samsung Motors Corp. and SsangYong Motor Co. — sold a combined [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 31 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s three listed carmakers are betting big on sport-utility vehicles (SUVs) to bolster sales in 2019 after posting lower-than-expected earnings results last year. With ongoing trade friction between the United States and China and the global economy slowing down, Hyundai Motor Co., Kia Motors Corp. and SsangYong Motor [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea will “significantly” ease regulations involving autonomous and hydrogen vehicles as part of its broad emission-control policies, the transport ministry said Friday. In a meeting with auto industry associations and car manufacturers, officials from the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport said the government will further ease regulations [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — Hyundai Motor Co. said Thursday it shifted to a net loss for the October-December quarter as a strong Korean currency and weak sales in major markets cut into its bottomline. For the three months that ended on Dec. 31, Hyundai swung to a net loss of 203.3 billion won [...]
SEJONG, Jan. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s finance minister called Friday for an exemption from U.S. tariffs on South Korean automobiles as he expressed deep concerns about an ongoing U.S. probe. Hong Nam-ki, the minister of economy and finance, made the appeal in a meeting with U.S. Ambassador to South Korea Harry Harris at [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of sport utility vehicles (SUVs) sold in South Korea in 2018 shot up 12.7 percent on-year — growing faster than any other type of automobile — to hit a record-high level, data showed Sunday. According to the data based on figures from five South Korean car manufacturers, [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — LG Chem Ltd. said Tuesday that it will invest 2.1 trillion won (US$1.8 billion) by 2023 to build electric vehicle batteries in China in the latest move to meet growing demand for batteries for zero-emissions cars. South Korea’s top chemical company said it has broken ground for a three-story [...]