SEOUL, Nov. 8 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea’s top automaker Hyundai Motor Co. and its smaller affiliate Kia Motors Corp. continue to dominate the local market despite a recent drop in their sales here as they together hold nine of the 10 best-selling cars, data showed Tuesday. The two carmakers form Hyundai Motor Group, the [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 12 (Korea Bizwire) – Local industry leader Hyundai Motor Co. and two other carmakers will recall over 30,000 cars sold here for problems with various vehicle parts, the transportation ministry said Monday. According to the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport, Hyundai Motor will recall 10,912 units of the Grandeur passenger cars for [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 29 (Korea Bizwire) – Local carmakers’ business outlook for the year is increasingly dim as they are struggling with a protracted labor dispute and a fall in demand in emerging markets, industry sources said Sunday. According to the sources, workers at South Korea’s leading carmaker Hyundai Motor Co. have voted down a tentative [...]
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.20 (Korea Bizwire) – SsangYong Motor announced that it will be launching the ‘Kaiser’, a special version of its Chairman W luxury sedan. Officials at Ssangyong Motor commented that they will be releasing the special trim of the Chairman W model during the first half of the year as a strategy to compete against [...]
SEJONG, Jan. 18 (Korea Bizwire) – The number of registered vehicles in South Korea rose 4.3 percent in 2015 from a year earlier on the back of the government’s tax-cut programs and solid demand for foreign-made cars, government data showed Sunday. Car registration stood at 20,989,885 units, up 4.3 percent or some 872,000 vehicles from [...]
SEOUL, Mar. 31 (Korea Bizwire) — Ssangyong Motor Co. started exporting its Tivoli sport utility vehicle on Tuesday as it hopes to repeat its strong performance here in overseas markets, industry sources said. Ssangyong Motor began shipments of the Tivoli SUV toward Europe and Latin American countries, with more than 2,000 units bound for the [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — Ssangyong Motor Co. has sold more than 8,000 Tivoli compact sport utility vehicles in less than a month after its debut, possibly making it one of the biggest hit models for this year, market data showed Wednesday. Ssangyong Motor, the smallest carmaker in South Korea, started to sell the [...]
“We haven’t received any official offer from Lee Hyori for appearing on the Tivoli commercial and we haven’t rejected the offer either. We have already finished the filming of the commercial two weeks ago. As we have to complete the filming in time for the launching on January 13, 2015, the time was too short [...]
![[Photo] Ssangyong Motor Unveils Rendering Image for Its New XIV Series](http://koreabizwire.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/ss1.jpg "[Photo] Ssangyong Motor Unveils Rendering Image for Its New XIV Series")
SEOUL, Sep. 11 (Korea Bizwire) – The rendering images of XIV-Air and XIV-Adventure, final versions of Ssangyong Motor Company’s XIV series were unveiled for the first time today. The concept sport utility vehicles will be making their debut at the 2014 Paris Motor Show slated for next month. The company said “The two concepts will [...]