SEOUL, June 8 (Korea Bizwire) – Thousands of Volkswagen owners plan to ask South Korea’s environment ministry to order the local unit of the German carmaker to refund the cost of their cars, a lawyer said Wednesday. Jason Ha, who represents about 4,400 Volkswagen owners at Barun Law, said he will formally file the petition [...]
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 7 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s government on Tuesday ordered Nissan Korea Co., the local unit of the Japanese carmaker, to recall hundreds of its SUVs sold here and banned sales of vehicles cited as fabricating emissions results. The Ministry of Environment slapped 340 million won (US$286,000) in fines on Nissan Korea and [...]
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 20 (Korea Bizwire) – Volkswagen AG, the German automaker, recently initiated a set of compensatory measures in the U.S. and Japan for customers whose vehicles provided manipulated, erroneous emissions data. South Korean customers, however, seem to be left out of said measures, industry sources said on Friday. According to the Korea Automobile Manufacturers’ Association [...]
SEJONG, March 31 (Korea Bizwire) – BMW Korea Co., the local unit of the German carmaker, will recall a combined 3,296 of the 3 series and 5 series sedans for problems with their airbags as part of the company’s worldwide recall plan, the South Korean transportation ministry said Thursday. The models’ airbags, produced by Japan’s Takata Corp., [...]
SEOUL, March 18 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korean prosecutors raided Volkswagen AG’s vehicle inspection center Friday as authorities crack down on the German automaker’s tardiness in recalling cars that faked emission tests, officials said. The Seoul Central District Prosecutors’ Office said computer hard drives and documents on Volkswagen vehicles’ emissions results have been confiscated from [...]
SEOUL, March 8 (Korea Bizwire) – After going under a seize and search for faking emissions results for some of its diesel models, Volkswagen once again pulled out their extreme discount plan in the Korean market. Industry watchers see Volkswagen’s move to be a desperate countermeasure against their dropping sales due to their tarnished brand image [...]
SEOUL, March 3 (Korea Bizwire) – Volkswagen and its luxury brand Audi plan to start the recall process for their emissions-faked vehicles sold in South Korea in late April following a delay caused by the Seoul government rejecting the companies’ measures to fix the problem for being insufficient, industry sources said Thursday. The two German [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 25 (Korea Bizwire) - Major foreign brands selling cars in South Korea have decided not to offer any refunds to their customers despite the government’s recent tax cut, claiming that it has already been reflected in their ramped-up sales promotions, company officials said Thursday. The government ended a 1.5-percentage-point excise tax cut at the [...]