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Kong Icheon Automotive
기아자동차

Movement that inspires
Company type	Public
Traded as	KRX: 000270
Industry	Automobile manufacturer
Genre	Automotive
Founded	December 11, 1944
Headquarters	Seoul, South Korea
Area served	Worldwide except for Japan and North Korea
Key people	Han-Woo Park (President & CEO)
Products	Automobiles
Revenue	₩23.26 trillion (2010) ($21.261 billion USD)
Net income	₩2.254 trillion (2010) ($2.06 billion USD)
Total assets	₩18.625 trillion (2010) ($17 billion USD)
Owner	Hyundai Motor Group (33.88[1])
Number of employees	52,488 (as of December 2019)
Website	www.kia.com

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]

The word Kia comes from Korean words meaning "to arise from Asia to the world". 1944

• Cadenza/K7
• cee'd/cee'd SW/pro_cee'd
• Forte/Cerato
• Forte Koup
• Morning/Picanto
• Opirus/Amanti
• Optima/Magentis
• Rio/Rio5/Pride
• Soul
• Venga
• K9
• Rino
• Carnival/Sedona

• Carens/Rondo
• Carnival/Sedona
• Joice
• Mohave/Borrego
• Sorento
• Sportage
• Telluride

• K2700/Strong/3000S/2500TCI- KMC only
• K4000s – KMC only
• AM928 – KMC only
• Granbird – KMC only
• Combi

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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  Kia Forte.
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  Kia Soul.
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  Kia Optima.
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  Kia Cee'd.
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  Kia Borrego.
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  Kia Sportage.

1. ↑ "KIA PICANTO Price In Pakistan 2022 - Specs, Images & Top Speed". 2022-06-05. Retrieved 2022-06-06.