10-car pileup This provided photo shows a car carrier trailer that crashed into pedestrians and cars causing a pileup involving 10 vehicles at an intersection in Yeosu, South Jeolla Province, southwestern South Korea, on July 20, 2021. Twelve people, including three in cardiac arrest, were taken to hospitals.(Yonhap)
Members of the Korean Federation of Community Credit Cooperatives, located near GM Korea’s manufacturing plant in Changwon, South Gyeongsang, attend an annual general meeting in their cars to prevent the spread of the coronavirus Monday. Around 500 members were present at the meeting. [YONHAP]
If you own a BMW you better get it checked out soon:
Two more diesel vehicles, a 730Ld model, left, and a 320d, right, caught fire on Korean highways on Thursday. The former is not included on a recall list announced by BMW Korea last month. [YONHAP]Two more BMW diesel cars caught fire Thursday morning, less than an hour apart, as Korea’s Transport Ministry mulls banning the fire-prone BMW vehicles from Korean roads.
This makes 36 cases of BMWs bursting into flames in Korea this year, eight in the last nine days.
As some of the vehicles that caught fire in recent weeks are not even included in BMW’s official recall list, industry analysts are raising new doubts about the company’s description of the cause of the fires.
On Thursday, a 730Ld model caught fire on the Namhae Expressway in South Gyeongsang.
The fire was extinguished within 15 minutes, according to the local fire station. [Joong Ang Ilbo]
You can read more at the link, but BMW is saying the fires are being caused by an exhaust gas recirculation issue.
Hyundai Motor Co.’s new hydrogen fuel-cell electric vehicle NEXO, featured in this photo from the company on March 16, 2018, will go on preorder from March 19. The automaker plans to export the vehicle overseas within this year, aiming to sell 10,000 units globally by 2022. (Yonhap)
The Busan International Motor Show bustles with visitors as it opens to the public in the South Korean port city on June 3, 2016. The auto show, held until June 12, features 232 car models from 25 local and foreign carmakers. (Yonhap)
South Korea due to its small size seems like an ideal location for the use of eco-friendly and driverless cars. It will be interesting to see how this technology develops over the next few years:
President Park Geun-hye pledged Friday to support the development of self-driving cars to ensure local carmakers won’t lag behind their global competitors.
Park said South Korea can compete with Google and other foreign rivals in developing driverless cars and eco-friendly vehicles, including electric cars, citing the technological prowess of local carmakers and information and technology companies.
South Korea is the world’s fifth-largest automobile producer and is home to Hyundai Motor Co. and its smaller affiliate, Kia Motors Corp., the two flagship units of Hyundai Motor Group.
“I think our carmakers won’t lag behind global competition and (will instead) stay ahead of it,” Park said at Hyundai’s assembly plant in Asan, about 100 kilometers south of Seoul. [Yonhap]
A model introduces the Peugeot 308 GT, a high-performance hatchback manufactured by French automaker Peugeot, during a publicity event in Seoul on Feb. 22, 2016, organized by Hanbul Motors Corp., the local importer and distributor of the French automaker. (Yonhap)
The photo dated 1965 shows a car manufacturing factory operated by Shinjin Automobiles, which produced vehicles locally with complete knockdown kits brought in from Toyota. The National Archives of Korea released it and other old photos on Nov. 11, 2015 to give a glimpse of the country’s past 70 years. (Yonhap)
