Kia Corporation

Kia Corporation formerly known as Kia Motors (Korean: 기아자동차, ki.a) is a car company. The headquarters are in Seoul, South Korea. It is the second-largest automobile manufacturer in that country, after Hyundai Motor Company. Kia sold of over 1.4 million vehicles in 2010.[2] The company is partly owned by the Hyundai Motor Group. Hyoung-Keun (Hank) Lee has been president since August 2009.[3]

Kia Corporation
기아자동차
Public
Traded asKRX: 000270
IndustryAutomobile manufacturer
GenreAutomotive
FoundedDecember 11, 1944
HeadquartersSeoul, South Korea
Area served
Worldwide except for Japan and North Korea
Key people
Han-Woo Park
(President & CEO)
ProductsAutomobiles
RevenueIncrease23.26 trillion (2010)
($21.261 billion USD)
Increase₩2.254 trillion (2010)
($2.06 billion USD)
Total assetsIncrease₩18.625 trillion (2010)
($17 billion USD)
OwnerHyundai Motor Group (33.88[1])
Number of employees
52,488 (as of December 2019)
Websitewww.kia.com
Kia Corporation
Hangul기아자동차
Hanja起亞自動車
Revised Romanization<span title="Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Language/data/ISO 639 override' not found. transliteration" class="Unicode" style="white-space:normal; text-decoration: none">Gia Jadongcha
McCune–Reischauer<span title="Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Language/data/ISO 639 override' not found. transliteration" class="Unicode" style="white-space:normal; text-decoration: none">Kia Chadongch'a

The word Kia comes from Korean words meaning "to arise from Asia to the world".

Models

Passenger cars

SUVs and vans

Commercial vehicles

Kia Corporation Media

References

  1. "Common/filedown.aspx?path=AnnualReport&filename=2009AR.pdf Hyundai Motor 2009 annual report". Worldwide.hyundai.com. Archived from the original on 2009-10-19. Retrieved 2011-04-24.
  2. "보안상 차단된 페이지". Kmcir.com. Archived from the original on 2010-05-09. Retrieved 2011-04-24.
  3. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2013-01-02. Retrieved 2012-01-12.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)

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