There is a rumor on the Internet that most of the cars bought by Koreans are Korean cars, and when they go to South Korea, they can also find that the cars on the street, whether they are taxis, official cars, or private cars, are basically based on Korean local brands, so how high is the support of Koreans for local models? Let's take a look at the list of car sales in South Korea.
November's South Korean car sales ranking has just been released, from the data can be seen that South Korean local brands accounted for the vast majority, from the first to the twelfth place are, Hyundai, Kia, Genises, Ssangyong, Renault Samsung, BMW, Mercedes-Benz, Audi, GM Korea, Volvo, Lexus, in addition to the top four are Korean local brands, Renault Samsung and General Motors Korea, are joint venture brands of Korean local companies and foreign car brands, the rest are imported brands.
From the perspective of market share, Hyundai Motor Group occupies about 75% of the market share of South Korea, SsangYong Motors occupies 4.3% of the market share, Renault Samsung and GM South Korea also occupy 6% of the market share, only Korean local brands, occupy nearly 80% of the market share of South Korea, Koreans love to buy Korean cars, it is indeed worthy of the name.
Many people attribute that Koreans love to buy Korean cars, which is that Koreans are more patriotic, and also use this to attack Chinese no Koreans support local brands more, in fact, Koreans love to buy Korean cars, not just because of patriotism.
On the one hand, the Korean car itself is produced in South Korea, and the price advantage is obvious compared with imported models, while there are fewer joint venture car companies in South Korea, so Korean local models have become a cheap and good choice.
On the other hand, the car-making strength of Korean cars is beyond doubt, although it has suffered a sales volume in China, but Hyundai Group is after all the world's top five automobile groups, with global sales of 6.35 million vehicles in 2020, which is good in terms of technical strength and product quality, so Koreans also trust Korean local brands.
What I want to say is that it is not that we are not patriotic, but because for a long time, the performance of domestic cars has been difficult to satisfy the Chinese people, and I hope that our independent car brands can also catch up and catch up with the joint venture cars as soon as possible, and I believe that there will be more Chinese people supporting domestic cars at that time.