SEOUL, Jan. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — Kim Jae-hyung, who works at Pixar Animation Studios as a character animator, had a distinguished past career back in South Korea. He was an incipient doctor who graduated from Seoul’s elite Yonsei University, with a promising and lucrative future on the horizon. But the rosy outlook did not satisfy [...]
SEOUL, May 2 (Korea Bizwire) – Kia Motors Corp. on Tuesday launched the latest version of the Soul electric vehicle (EV) with an extended range, a move aimed at adding more fuel-efficient models to its lineup. The 2018 Soul EV can travel an average of 180 kilometers on a single charge using its 30-kilowatt-per-hour battery, [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 9 (Korea Bizwire) – Kia’s latest autonomous EV made a surprise appearance at a KBO baseball match between the Kia Tigers and NC Dinos on Thursday. The Kia Soul EV drove into stadium from the left gate by the outfield with Korean actress and singer Lee Hae-in, who threw the ceremonial first pitch, [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 12 (Korea Bizwire) – The Soul box-type vehicle emerged as the best-selling car in overseas markets for South Korea’s No. 2 carmaker Kia Motors Corp. this year, industry data showed Thursday. According to the data, Kia Motors sold a cumulative 177,457 units of the Soul overseas during the January-October period of the year, [...]
SEOUL, July 8 (Korea Bizwire) South Korea’s top carmaker Hyundai Motor Co. and its sister affiliate Kia Motors Corp. said Wednesday that their models have won satisfaction awards from a U.S. automotive research company. Hyundai’s Sonata ranked No. 1 among different midsize sedan brands to win the AutoPacific Vehicle Satisfaction Award, and Kia’s Soul city car and the [...]
LAS VEGAS, Nov. 4 (Korea Bizwire) – Kia Motors America (KMA) today brought the sights and sounds of the race track to the opening day of the 2014 Specialty Equipment Market Association (SEMA) Show. Just five years after the brand boldly announced its intention to enter professional motorsports in the U.S. at the 2009 SEMA Show, [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 20 (Korea Bizwire) – Kia Motors’ “Soul” which was rated “poor” in a collision test last year drastically improved its crash-safety rating this year with new Soul 2015 model to “good.” The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) of the U.S. announced on September 16 the recent result of the small overlap test of [...]
IRVINE, Calif., August 21, 2014 – Since bursting on the scene in 2009 as “a new way to roll,” the funky Soul urban passenger vehicle – and an accompanying trio of music-loving hamsters – has become a genuine phenomenon, with U.S. sales of the iconic people mover increasing every year. Now, with “geek chic” newly [...]
IRVINE, Calif., Aug. 8 (Korea Bizwire) – Coming off a record-breaking sales performance in the first half of 2014, the Kia Soul has been named to the list of 10 Best Back-to-School Cars by Kelley Blue Book’s KBB.com. All new for the 2014 model year, the Soul sold an individual nameplate record 74,999 units in [...]
IRVINE, Calif., Jul. 17 (Korea Bizwire) – Kia Motors has built a reputation for world-class design over the last several years, and recently, the Industrial Designers Society of America (IDSA) has added to the Korean brand’s renown with a pair of prestigious design awards. Kia received International Design Excellence Awards (IDEA) in the transportation category [...]