99%
Korean domestics’ car sales share in 2001

15%
Importers car sales share during June 2014

As recently as the millennium change, in 2001 Korea’s domestic carmakers still accounted for 99 per cent of the cars sold in their home patch. 

Importers, after years of strenuous and largely fruitless efforts took less than 1 per cent of Korea’s car market in 2001, rising thereafter to a still under whelming 4.3 per cent a handful of years later.

Just 40,530 imported cars found Korean buyers during the whole of 2006...more