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Asia Motors Industries (아시아자동차공업), was a major South Korean vehicle manufacturer, active from 1965 until 1999. Although it did build passenger cars for a short period, its real importance was in buses, trucks, military vehicles and 4x4s. Its history eventually became part of Kia.

Asia Motors was established in Gwangju on July 2, 1965, during the period when the South Korean go...

The Korando has a rather complicated genealogy because it predates SsangYong Motor itself.

Its ancestry begins with Korea’s production of Jeep-type vehicles. Ha Dong-hwan Motor was building utility vehicles in the 1960s, while Shinjin Motors became involved in licensed Jeep production with AMC. After a series of corporate changes, Keohwa (거화) took over the Jeep operation.

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Saehan is the Korean car company between GM and Daewoo.

For only a few years, the name Saehan appeared on Korean roads. But hidden inside those few years is a remarkable cross-section of Korean automotive history.

Long before Daewoo became one of Korea’s best-known automotive names, there was Shinjin.

Founded in postwar Korea in 1955, Shinjin began by rebuilding vehicles and manufacturing buses. A decade later, the company made a dramatic move into passenger-car production when it acquired the former Saenara automobile factory in Bupyeong and formed a technical partnership with Toyota.<...