SEOUL, South Korea, March 22 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korean TV shopping network Lotte Home Shopping recently experienced firsthand the surge in the popularity of electric cars when it aired a special program last Friday featuring electric cars for lease. During the hour-long broadcast, the network saw more than five thousand customers call in to [...]
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 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 [...]
SEOUL, March 3 (Korea Bizwire) — Car Makers Launch Aggressive Marketing Push in S. Korean Automobile Market Car makers are stepping up their marketing game as they look to boost their market share in the South Korean auto market in March. Sales and marketing strategies from major car companies including Hyundai, Kia and GM Korea [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 31 (Korea Bizwire) – GM Korea Co., the South Korean unit of U.S. automaker General Motors Co., will begin to sell the Chevrolet Volt electric vehicle in the local market this week, the company said Tuesday. The Volt EV will be available at any Chevrolet dealership here from Wednesday, the company said in [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 17 (Korea Bizwire) – GM Korea Co., the South Korean unit of U.S. automaker General Motors Co., will again see domestic sales grow this year, its CEO James Kim said Tuesday, adding he was confident the company’s market share will breach the 10-percent mark for the first time in a decade. “I believe [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 10 (Korea Bizwire) – GM Korea Co., the South Korean unit of U.S. automaker General Motors Co., is set to launch its new Cruze compact car here next week, company officials said Tuesday. The Chevrolet Cruze will be unveiled at a ceremony in Seoul next Tuesday, they said. The new Cruze will mark [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 30 (Korea Bizwire) – James Kim, president and CEO of GM Korea Co., apparently sought to eradicate what is believed to be widespread corruption among many employees and labor union leaders selling job openings, urging them to come clean without facing any consequences, company officials said Friday. In a recent e-mail addressed to [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 21 (Korea Bizwire) – Ford Sales & Service Korea, the local importer and distributor of Ford vehicles, will recall certain model year Ford Explorer SUVs sold here for a problem related to the cars’ suspension, the transportation ministry said Wednesday. The recall affects 489 Explorer cars produced between Jan. 17 and May 31 [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 7 (Korea Bizwire) – Featured Wednesday at the Seoul Design Festival was the “Volcano Red” version of Chevrolet’s Camaro SS, the model often recognized as “Bumblebee” in the Transformers series (though in yellow with black stripes in the films). The hot red 453-horsepower muscle car, presented by GM Korea and spatial designer Kim [...]