Hyundai Rotem delivers double-deck electric trains to AustraliaThis image, released by Hyundai Rotem Co. on Dec. 2, 2019, shows a double-deck electric train manufactured by the South Korean railway system and plant equipment maker at its plant in the southeastern city of Changwon. Hyundai Rotem has sent 20 double-deck electric trains to New South Wales’ railway authorities in Australia as the first batch of the 554 vehicles it agreed to export to the Australian state. (Yonhap)
The Seoul city government said on Tuesday that it has approved the long-delayed construction of Hyundai Motor Group’s new headquarters in the affluent district of Gangnam, which is set to be South Korea’s tallest skyscraper when completed in 2026.
The 569-meter building will break ground in the first half of 2020, Seoul city said in a statement.
The approval came more than four years after Hyundai Motor Group, South Korea’s second-largest conglomerate, offered to purchase the site with $10 billion in 2014, more than triple its market price, outbidding Samsung Electronics Co Ltd and sparking a stock sell-off.
The construction, originally scheduled to commence in 2016, was delayed partly due to security concerns raised by South Korea’s air force, which said the building would interfere with radar and military operations, a Seoul city official said.
Hydroelectric garbage truckA hydroelectric fuel cell garbage car, for export, is unveiled during a ceremony to declare a national vision for future cars at the carmaker’s Namyang R&D Center in Hwaseong, Gyeonggi Province, on Oct. 15, 2019. (Yonhap)
A man writes a message reading “No more internal combustion engines” on a billboard promoting Hyundai Motor’s Sonata sedan in front of the automaker’s headquarters in Yangjae, southern Seoul, on Monday.
Greenpeace is under police investigation for defacing an advertisement for Hyundai Motor in their war against pollution from cars.
A member of the environmental group climbed a 40-meter (131-foot) billboard for Hyundai Motor’s new Sonata sedan close to the automaker’s head office in Seoul on Monday morning and posted a message in large black hangul characters reading, “No more internal combustion engines.”
“Getting rid of internal combustion engines is a must to-do task in today’s environment,” said Lee In-sung, a climate campaigner for the local branch of the non-governmental environmental organization, which is headquartered in Amsterdam.
Site for Hyundai’s new headquartersThis aerial photo shows a construction site for Hyundai Motor Group’s new headquarters, dubbed Global Business Center, in southern Seoul. The 569-meter-tall skyscraper is set to be built by 2021. (Yonhap)
Huh Sung-moo (L), mayor of the southeastern city of Changwon, poses with a Hyundai Motor official during a ceremony to hand over the carmaker’s Nexo hydro-electric car at the city hall on Oct. 10, 2018, in this photo provided by the city. The city decided to use Hyundai’s hydro-electric cars as its official cars. (Yonhap)
Considering that Hyundai was used to help pay the original $500 million bribe to the Kim regime to secure the first Inter-Korean summit, I can understand why North Korea has fond memories of working with the former chairman Chong Mong-hun:
In this photo provided by Hyundai Group, its chairwoman Hyun Jeong-eun pays respect to late chairman Chung Mong-hun during a memorial service at Mount Kumgang on Aug. 3, 2018. (Yonhap)
A North Korean media outlet reported in detail on a South Korean firm’s devotion to inter-Korean cooperation Friday, apparently trying to create a favorable mood for resumption of the company’s now suspended tour program.
Uriminjokkiri, the North’s external propaganda website, shed light on Hyundai Group’s work and its relations with Pyongyang in time for a trip by group officials to Mount Kumgang to attend a memorial service for late chairman Chung Mong-hun.
Chung spearheaded the now suspended tour program to the North Korean mountain. His wife and current chairwoman Hyun Jeong-eun was among the visitors.
The ceremony was attended by some 20 North Korean officials and 30 Hyundai officials, according to the company.
“We have expectations to resume the tour program within this year. That’s what the North was thinking too,” Hyun told reporters after her visit.
Yet the chairwoman said she did not have detailed discussions on the possible resumption of inter-Korean projects with the North Korean officials.
During a meeting with Hyun in 2005, the website said that the North’s then leader Kim Jong-il delivered condolences for the death of Chung, emphasizing that the North began its “first love” with Hyundai in terms of improving inter-Korean relations way ahead of its cooperation with the Seoul government.
Kim also praised Chung for his devotion to advancing relations between the two Koreas, calling him a “patriotic business person” who followed in the footsteps of his late father and group founder, Chung Ju-yung, according to the website. [Yonhap]
You can read more at the link, but for those that don’t remember Chong Mong-hun committed suicide back in 2003 by jumping off of a building after he was indicted for his role in paying the bribe to North Korea.
Shown is the photo of the Genesis Essentia, a luxury grand touring electric vehicle from Genesis, provided by Hyundai Motor Group on May 28, 2018. The concept car was dislayed at the Concorso d’Eleganza di Villa d’Este exhibition in Lake Como, Italy, on May 26-27. (Yonhap)
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)
Unionized workers at Hyundai Motor Co.’s factory in Ulsan, 414 km southeast of Seoul, stage a partial strike calling for higher wages and bonuses on Dec. 5, 2017. Earlier in the day, the carmaker’s 51,000-member union declared a strike for four to six hours from Dec. 5-8 at five plants in the city. (Yonhap)
