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Automobiles Korea’s KG Mobility teams up with Chery to develop mid to large SUVs

KG Mobility Corp., a South Korean automaker specializing in sport utility vehicles, said on Wednesday it joined hands with China’s fourth-larg...

Retail KT&G faces $2 bn damages suit over heated tobacco invention

KT&G Corp., the world’s fifth-largest tobacco maker, is facing a $2 billion damages suit from a former employee who claimed the South Kore...

Carbon neutrality SK Rent-a-Car to replace internal combustion engine cars with EVs

SK Rent-a-Car plans to overhaul its existing fleet of internal combustion engine vehicles in favor of electric cars. The company aims to capitalize ...

Automobiles S.Korean hybrid car market surpasses $4.56 bn in H1 2023

South Korea's hybrid car market has shown a remarkable surge, reaching 6.12 trillion won ($4.56 billion) in the first half of 2023, according to the...

Aerospace & Defense Una Stella secures $4.4 mn pre-Series A funding

South Korean start-up Una Stella announced on Monday that it has secured 5.5 billion won ($4.4 million) in pre-Series A funding, led by Strong Ventu...

Electric vehicles Hyundai Motor's compact SUV Kona gets bigger

Hyundai Motor Co. on Tuesday unveiled the new design of its compact SUV the new "all-new Kona."The all-new Kona is a second-generation model being i...

Electric vehicles GM may consider producing EVs in South Korea

CHANGWON, South Gyeongsang Province -- General Motors Co. may consider making electric vehicles in South Korea, the country manager said on Wednesda...

Corporate investment Hyundai to spend $30 bn on improving quality of combustion engine cars

Hyundai Motor Group will invest 63 trillion won ($50 billion) in its domestic businesses through 2025 to strengthen its competitiveness in electrifi...

Electric vehicles Korea automakers fret over Yoon’s policy on combustion engine cars

South Korea’s automakers were on high alert as President-elect Yoon Suk-yeol pledged to ban new registrations of internal combustion engine ca...

Hydrogen economy Hyundai Motor to start hydrogen popularization in 2040

Hyundai Motor Group, the world’s fifth-largest automaker, declared to make 2040 the first year of hydrogen energy popularizationThe group was ...

Automobiles Hyundai Motor vows carbon neutrality by 2045

South Korea’s top automaker Hyundai Motor Co. pledged to achieve carbon neutrality by 2045 as global automakers are going for broke to accompl...

Carbon neutrality Hanwha, Korea Western Power to test mixed hydrogen combustion

Hanwha General Chemical Co. and Korea Western Power Co. joined hands for the first test in the country to use mixed hydrogen combustion technologies...