Kia Motors facts for kids

Quick facts for kids
Kia Motors
기아자동차

Type	Public
Traded as	KRX: 000270
Industry	Automobile manufacturer
Founded	June 9, 1944
Headquarters	Seoul, South Korea
Area served	Worldwide
Key people	Hyoung-Keun Lee (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 Kia Automotive Group (49.2%)
Number of employees	42,000 (as of November 2009)

Kia Motors 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. The company is partly owned by the Hyundai Motor Group. Hyoung-Keun (Hank) Lee has been president since August 2009.

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

Models

Passenger cars

• 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

SUVs and vans

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

Commercial vehicles

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

Images for kids

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  Kia Motors' South Korean factory

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  Kia Sportage

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  Kia K5

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  Kia Sorento

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  Kia Stinger

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  Kia Forte/Cerato

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  Kia Telluride

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  Ukrainian Bogdan Group produced KM-450

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  Kia KM420

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  2018 fleet of electric and hybrid-electric vehicles

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  UEFA Euro 2012