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Hyundai Motor is a South Korean automaker and major global vehicle manufacturer, producing passenger cars, commercial vehicles, and EVs.
Hyundai Motor plans 320,000 vehicles a year of capacity at the former GM plant in Pune by 2030, against GM's 130,000. Getting there takes line speed from 21 vehicles an hour to 44.
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KOSPI rose 2.05% to 5,668.05 on Friday, ending a seven-day losing streak. Samsung Electronics and SK hynix, which fell 9.48% and 11.06% the session before, are still about 7% and 10% below their earlier closes.
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Kospi opened up 1.8% on Friday after a 7.57% plunge to 5,554.22 that Yonhap tied to AI-trade worries and US inflation. The chip names trailed the index while banks and defense led, so the early rebound does not show the AI worry has eased.
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Hyundai Motor's market value has fallen about 89.8 trillion won since June 1 as the share price lost 58.2%, en.sedaily.com reported. Seventh place on the KOSPI now rests on a lead of about 7.4 trillion won over KB Financial.
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Korea's 1,000 largest listed companies put renewables and robotics into 30.2% of the business lines they added to their charters this year, the FKI found. The unit counted is a business purpose written into articles of incorporation, so the shares describe stated intent.
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Renault has dropped plans to supply North America from its Busan plant and is recasting it as an export hub for Europe and Latin America. The Korea JoongAng Daily links the exit to US curbs on Chinese-linked vehicles.
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Peugeot has listed its full Korean lineup on Naver's Smart Store, the first carmaker to do so, after selling 979 vehicles in Korea last year. Buyers pay a deposit online, then finish the purchase with a dealer.
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Hyundai has sold 9,884,960 vehicles in India since 1998, SIAM data show, leaving it 115,040 short of 10 million. Its record 2024 total beat 2016's by at most a fifth, so the 150,000 units of extra Pune capacity planned for 2030 lean heavily on exports.
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LG Energy Solution expects third-quarter operating profit to rise 25.7% to 756 billion won, or 339.1 billion won without US tax credits. Analysts cited by Channel NewsAsia trace the beat to a one-off payment from an automaker that missed its purchase minimums, a sign of weak EV demand.
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KOSPI opened 1.11% lower on Wednesday despite overnight gains on Wall Street, then cut the loss to 0.27% by 9:15 a.m. Once the index was back near flat, the clearer signal from the morning was how far apart its large caps moved.
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Foreign investors sold a net 1.75 trillion won of Korean shares on Tuesday as the KOSPI fell 0.89% to 6,941.39. Chipmakers led a drop that left breadth near even, so global bond yields are steering the index until third-quarter earnings give investors company numbers to price.
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Kia sold a record 846,764 vehicles in the third quarter, up 7.8%, with three SUV models making up 37% of them. About 93% of the added volume came from abroad, while its fast-rising electric sales are concentrated in South Korea.
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Hyundai Motor will build the new Tucson hybrid in Alabama to ease US tariffs on an SUV that has sold 11.2 million units since 2004. The Tucson made up about 26% of Hyundai's US third quarter, so where its hybrid is built sets how much tariff each American sale carries.
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Seoul will cut permit time for Hyundai's 4 trillion won Ulsan EV rebuild to 12 months from 40, about half the value of a 7.9 trillion won fast-track package. The listed project figures reach that total without the chip-fab contracting change SK hynix sought, a rule Seoul plans to change next year.
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The Japanese carmaker will install 150,000 humanoids in its own plants and 250,000 at affiliates, aiming at 60 factories. The only annual build rate on the record is Tesla's 50,000 Optimus units. Hyundai's union wants a veto.
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The preferred rose 15.34% in September against 9.00% for the common, and at 219,500 won one quarter's extra yield is worth about half a percentage point. The rest of the gap prices a cancellation proposal the board decides in January.
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KAMA's seven-month count of 237,032 registrations is already past all of last year, but Tesla's 66,376 sales in Korea now put Hyundai third in EVs in its own home market, with Kia still ahead on 85,444.
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Mirae Asset lists the TIGER physical AI ETF on the Korea Exchange on the 22nd with 25% fixed to Hyundai Motor and 25% to LG Electronics, plus a standing rule to buy humanoid robot issuers at the close of the day after they list.
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Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix help design Korean university degrees that fund students for years and then hire them at ordinary entry-level pay. Applicants are queuing 13.44 and 9.14 deep for each seat.
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Jongro Academy counted a record 8,994 early applications to 13 corporate contract programs for the 2027 year, up 18.2 percent. The 297-to-1 ratio being quoted is three seats at Sogang University. Battery, down 36.2 percent, is one department.
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