Worldwide (except Japan, North Korea, Cuba, Afghanistan)
Key people
Chung Eui-sun (chairman)
Song Ho-Sung (president & CEO)
Karim Habib (chief design officer)
Products
Automobiles
Commercial vehicles
Production output
2.6 million (2021)
Revenue
₩86.559trillion[2] (2022)
Operating income
₩7.2331trillion[2] (2022)
Net income
₩5.409trillion[2] (2022)
Total assets
₩73.711trillion[2] (2022)
Total equity
₩39.3431trillion[2] (2022)
Owner
Hyundai Motor Company (33.88%)[3]
National Pension Service (6.91%)[3]
Chung Eui-sun (1.74%)[3]
Number of employees
51,975 (2021)
Subsidiaries
Kia America
Kia Canada
Kia India
Kia Central & South America
Kia Middle East/Iran
Kia Europe
Kia Mexico
Website
kia.com
Footnotes / references [4][5]
For other uses, see Kia (disambiguation).
Not to be confused with the kea bird.
Kia
Hangul
기아
Hanja
起亞
Revised Romanization
Gia
McCune–Reischauer
Kia
Kia Corporation (Korean: 기아, IPA:[ki.a], formerly known as Kyungsung Precision Industry (京城精密工業) and Kia Motors Corporation) is a South Korean multinational automobile manufacturer headquartered in Seoul, South Korea. It is South Korea's second largest automobile manufacturer, after its parent company, Hyundai Motor Company, with sales of over 2.8 million vehicles in 2019. As of 2015,[update] Kia is owned by Hyundai, which holds a 33.88% stake valued at just over US$6 billion. Kia in turn is a minority owner of more than twenty Hyundai subsidiaries ranging from 4.9% up to 45.37%, totaling more than US$8.3 billion.
^"Kia History". kia.com. Retrieved July 15, 2016.
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^ abc"Kia Sustainability Report 2023" (PDF). Kia.
^"Kia | Board of Directors". Kia. September 7, 2022.
^"Kia | Employees". Kia. Retrieved September 7, 2022.
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