Pyeonghwa Motor Plant
평화 자동차 공사 Pyeonghwa Motors Corporation |
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legal form | Corporation |
founding | 1994 (unofficial) April 15, 1998 (official) |
Seat | Seoul , South Korea |
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Number of employees | 3,406 (as of November 2009) |
sales | 630,035,000 원 (as of 2008) |
Branch | Automobile production |
Website | pmcgroup.co.kr |
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Korean alphabet : | 평화 자동차 |
Hanja : | 平和 自動 車 |
Revised Romanization : | Pyeonghwa |
McCune-Reischauer : | P'yŏnghwa |
Pyeonghwa Motor Plant is a Korean automobile manufacturer with headquarters in South Korea and factories in North Korea . It is a joint venture between Pyeonghwa Motors from Seoul , a company of the "Federation for World Peace" owned by the Unification Church , and the North Korean state-owned Ryonbong Group , which was only officially founded in 1998 as an automobile company.
Pyeonghwa ( 평화 ) means "peace".
description
Although the company initially only existed on paper, it launched a mid-range sedan called the Pyeonghwa 410 in its first year (1994) . The vehicle parts came from German Mercedes-Benz production and were assembled as CKD kits by the Chinese China FAW Group . Only very few units actually came from Pyeonghwa assembly. In April 2002, the plant near the city of Namp'o was built with government support, and since then vehicles have been built under license from Fiat . In addition, utility vehicles are manufactured by the Chinese manufacturer Liaoning SG Automotive . Production is expected to be over 10,000 cars a year. Due to the high price (approx. US $ 10,000) for the local area, they are practically unaffordable for the majority of the locals. However, an improvement in the economic situation in North Korea has ensured increasing sales of vehicles since 2008. The March 2010 issue of The Korea Times magazine even called for better mutual understanding and economic unification as equal partners regarding this economic improvement. Among other things, this was alluding to developments which can be carried out much cheaper in South Korea and which also target PMC's products. Currently (as of February 2017), the belts of the North Korean factory should be empty; the vehicles should come from China.
Pyeonghwa Motors has monopolistically controlled car imports and used car trading in North Korea since 2002 . The vehicles are sold by the sales organization Pyeonghwa Motor Corporation .
Up to 10,000 vehicles could be assembled annually; however, production has probably been idle since November 2012.
Model overview
model | construction time | status | construction | class | Country of production |
410 | 1994 to 2002 | only import and conversion | Notchback | Middle class | D ⇒ KP / PRC |
Huiparam | since 2002 | Serial production | Notchback | Middle class | KP |
Huiparam II | since 2005 | import | Notchback | Middle class | PRC |
Huiparam III | since 2011 | import | Notchback | Middle class | PRC |
Junma | 2006 | Concept vehicle | Notchback | Middle class | KP |
Junma | 2008 to 2009 | Serial production | Notchback | Middle class | KP |
Paso 990 | since 2011 | Serial production | Light utility truck with flatbed | VNM | |
Ppeokkugi | since 2002 | Serial production | High roof combination | Lower middle class | KP |
Ppeokkugi II | since 2004 | Serial production | Sports utility vehicle | upper middle class | KP |
Ppeokkugi III | since 2004 | Serial production | Sports utility vehicle pick-up | Middle class | KP |
Ppeokkugi 4WD-A | since 2009 | Serial production | Sports utility vehicle | Middle class | KP |
Ppeokkugi 4WD-B | since 2009 | Serial production | Sports utility vehicle | Middle class | CZ / ROK |
Ppeokkugi 4WD-C | since 2009 | Serial production | Sports utility vehicle pick-up | Middle class | VNM |
Premio DX | 2004 to 2009 | Serial production | Sports utility vehicle pick-up | Middle class | VNM |
Premio DX II | since 2009 | Serial production | Sports utility vehicle pick-up | Middle class | VNM |
Premio MAX | since 2004 | Serial production | Sports utility vehicle pick-up | Middle class | VNM |
Pronto DX | 2004 to 2009 | Serial production | Sports utility vehicle | Middle class | VNM |
Pronto GS | since 2009 | Serial production | Sports utility vehicle | Middle class | VNM |
Samchunri | since 2005 | import | Panel Van Van |
Middle class | PRC |
Zunma | since 2008 | Serial production | Notchback | Middle class | KP |
Zunma 1606 | since 2013 (?) | Serial production | Notchback | Lower middle class | KP |
Zunma 2008 | since 2013 (?) | Serial production | Notchback | Middle class | KP |
distribution
- North Korea ⇒ Pyeonghwa Motor Corporation
- South Korea ⇒ Pyeonghwa Motor Corporation
- Czech Republic ⇒ through independent dealers, conversion necessary
- Vietnam ⇒ Mekong Auto Corporation
- People's Republic of China ⇒ via independent dealers
Probably since 2014 there have been a total of five advertising posters in the urban area of Pyongyang , which is a specialty in North Korea. At the Kwangbok Street currently the only known is dealership of Pyeonghwa.
Sales in North Korea
- 2002: 137 units
- 2007: 300 units +
- 2008: 650 units
- 2009: 1300 units
- 2011: 1820 units
Web links
- Official website of the Pyeonghwa Motors Plant (Korean)
- Official website of the Mekong Auto Company (English, Vietnamese)
- Article National / Politics (English)
- Article Choson (digest) (Spanish)
- DPR Korea ( Memento of February 6, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 1.37 MB)
Individual evidence
- ^ North Korea's broken car dream. Handelsblatt.de, accessed on February 13, 2017 .
- ↑ a b Pyeonghwa Motors. North Korea's broken car dream. In: http://www.wiwo.de . WirtschaftsWoche, February 12, 2017, accessed on February 13, 2017 (original source: Handelsblatt Online).
- ↑ Pyeonghwa Motor Dealership - Koryo Tours Blog. January 22, 2014. Retrieved August 4, 2016 (American English).