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Hyundai Marine
Hyundai is a South Korean industrial conglomerate (" chaebol"), which was restructured into the following groups: * Hyundai Group, parts of the former conglomerate which have not been divested ** Hyundai Mobis, Korean car parts company ** Hyundai Asan, a real estate construction and civil engineering company * Hyundai Motor Group, the automotive part of the former conglomerate ** Hyundai Motor Company, an automobile manufacturer ** Hyundai N *** Hyundai Motorsport, a racing team *** Hyundai Motor India ** Hyundai Rotem, a manufacturer of railway vehicles, defense systems, and factory equipment ** Hyundai Engineering & Construction, a construction company * Hyundai Heavy Industries Group, the heavy industry part of the former conglomerate ** Hyundai Heavy Industries, the primary company representing the group ** Hyundai Corporation, a trading and industrial investment company ** Hyundai Mipo Dockyard, a shipbuilding company ** Hyundai Oilbank, a petroleum refinery company ** Hyun ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Automotive Industry In South Korea
The automotive industry in South Korea is the fifth-largest in the world as measured by automobile unit production and also the sixth-largest by automobile export volume. While its initial operations were merely the assembling of parts imported from foreign companies, South Korea is today among the most advanced automobile-producing countries in the world. Annual domestic output first exceeded one million units in 1988. In the 1990s, the industry manufactured numerous in-house models, demonstrating not only its capabilities in terms of design, performance, and technology, but also signalling its coming of age. History Origins The history of the Korean automotive industry began in August 1955, when Choi Mu-seong, a Korean businessman, and two of his brothers (Choi Hae-seong and Choi Soon-seong), mounted a modified and localized jeep engine on a US military jeep-style car body made with the sheet metal from a junk oil drum can and military junk Jeep parts to manufacture its f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
