SEOUL, Sept. 2 (Korea Bizwire) – Samsung Electronics Co. on Friday announced an unprecedented global recall of its Galaxy Note 7 after several of the phablets caught fire while being charged, promising to offer new replacements to all of the buyers at home and abroad. Samsung apologized for the recall in a news conference in [...]
SEOUL, Sept.1 (Korea Bizwire) – Consumers who were lucky enough to get their hands on the new Galaxy Note 7 are now anxious that they may have purchased a faulty product. According to industry watchers, at least five cases of exploding Note 7s have been reported on online message boards, including two in Korea, since [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 19 (Korea Bizwire) – Nearly 4,500 cars imported by Jaguar Land Rover Korea, the local importer of the luxury brand cars, will be recalled due to problems that include a possible fuel leak that could cause a fire, the transportation ministry said Friday. Due to a defect in the design of the engine [...]
SEOUL, July 13 (Korea Bizwire) – Following its shocking emissions scandal, Volkswagen may have settled matters with the U.S., but it still has a long way to go in South Korea. An official investigation into Volkswagen’s manipulation of emissions data is ongoing, and Korea is likely to ban the sale of 32 Volkswagen models by [...]
SEJONG, June 8 (Korea Bizwire) – Nissan Korea Co., the local unit of the Japanese carmaker, will recall a combined 4,697 units of its Altima and Maxima sedans for a defect in the passenger seat sensor, the South Korean transportation ministry said Wednesday. Due to an error in the program that detects the front-seat passenger, [...]
SEJONG, Jun. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s environment ministry said Tuesday it has again rejected Volkswagen’s plan to recall its vehicles that fabricated emissions results, saying the local unit of the German carmaker did not admit to using a defeat device to trick vehicle testing. The Ministry of Environment disapproved the plan submitted by [...]
SEJONG, June 2 (Korea Bizwire) – Mercedes-Benz Korea, the local unit of the German luxury car brand, will recall 1,135 units of E-class sedans for problems with their powertrain control system, the transportation ministry here said Thursday. An error in the model’s powertrain software may fail to transmit engine power to the automatic transmission, causing a [...]
SEOUL, June 1 (Korea Bizwire) – Prosecutors said Wednesday they have confiscated some 950 vehicles of the South Korean unit of the German carmaker Volkswagen, equipped with its new engine model, amid a probe into the company’s emissions scandal. The Seoul Central District Prosecutors’ Office said three of Audi Volkswagen Korea’s models — Audi A1, [...]
SEOUL, May 17 (Korea Bizwire) – Korean consumers are taking legal action against Nissan after the Ministry of Environment said Monday that the Japanese carmaker was found to have faked the emissions results for its Qashqai SUV. Nissan has sold more than 800 units of the compact crossover in Korea since last November. This is the [...]
SEOUL, May 16 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea’s government said Monday it will order a recall of hundreds of Nissan vehicles sold in South Korea after it found that the Japanese carmaker had fabricated emissions results. The Ministry of Environment said the Qashqai model of the Japanese automaker was found to have faked its emissions results [...]