SEJONG, Feb. 15 (Korea Bizwire) – Ssangyong Motor Co., South Korea’s smallest carmaker, is voluntarily recalling 2,637 Korando C sports utility vehicles for problems in seat belt anchors, the transportation ministry said Monday. The model’s seat belt system was found to have a problem in a belt anchorage strength test conducted by the carmaker in [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 6 (Korea Bizwire) - German carmaking giant Volkswagen submitted a recall plan to the South Korean government on Wednesday for its vehicles whose emission results were found to have been faked, claiming that there will be no change in fuel efficiency and power even after removing the so-called “defeat device,” officials and industry [...]
SEJONG, Dec. 16 (Korea Bizwire) - GM Korea and Toyota will recall 1958 cars sold in South Korea for safety-related mechanical defects, the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport said Wednesday. GM Korea, the South Korean unit of U.S. automaker General Motors Co., said ignition coils on its Veritas full-size sedans have problems that could [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 1 (Korea Bizwire) — German carmaker Volkswagen is expected to recall about 120,000 vehicles sold in South Korea in connection with a deepening diesel emissions scandal, market sources said Thursday. On Wednesday, Audi Volkswagen Korea, the local unit of the German carmaker, submitted its latest sales figures, detailed information about the so-called defeat [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea will conduct fuel efficiency tests on imported Volkswagen models again amid a growing controversy over the German carmaker accused of cheating diesel engine emission test results, government and industry sources said Wednesday. Last week, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said that Volkswagen used software that activates emission [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 30 (Korea Bizwire) – Honda Motor Co., a Japanese carmaker, will voluntarily recall more than 18,690 crossover vehicles sold in South Korea due to manufacturing defects, the transportation ministry said Sunday. Subject to the recall are 18,690 CR-V vehicles produced between May 24, 2006, and March 29, 2011, according to the ministry. In [...]
SEJONG, May 29 (Korea Bizwire) – German carmaker BMW is recalling 3,488 units of its 5-series sedans due to defective rear bumper reflectors, the transportation ministry said Friday. According to the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport, the rear bumper reflectors do not reflect enough light for following vehicles to detect there is a car [...]
SEJONG, April 26 (Korea Bizwire) — Mercedes-Benz Korea, the local importer of the luxury German car brand, is recalling nearly 2,800 vehicles sold here because of an oil leak that may lead to a fire, the transportation ministry said Sunday. Due to a defective part in 10 vehicle models, including the E220, engine oil may leak, [...]