{"id":144330,"date":"2021-09-15T16:30:13","date_gmt":"2021-09-15T08:30:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=144330"},"modified":"2021-09-15T16:36:13","modified_gmt":"2021-09-15T08:36:13","slug":"s-koreas-automotive-production-rises-0-7-percent-in-aug","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=144330","title":{"rendered":"S. Korea&#8217;s Automotive Production Rises 0.7 Percent In Aug"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>SEOUL, Sept 15 (NNN-YONHAP) &#8211; South Korea&#8217;s automotive production rose last month, as solid demand for environmentally-friendly vehicles offset the shortage of semiconductors used for cars, a government report showed today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The number of vehicles, manufactured in domestic plants, was 234,893 in Aug, up 0.7 percent from a year earlier, according to the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>From the previous month, the car production tumbled 21.1 percent last month, amid the lack of chips used for cars.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It was offset by robust demand for environmentally-friendly vehicles both at home and abroad.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The country&#8217;s automotive export gained 4.1 percent over the year to 135,871 units in Aug. In terms of value, the car export jumped 16.9 percent to 3.03 billion U.S. dollars.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The outbound shipment of environmentally-friendly vehicles soared 92.2 percent in Aug from a year earlier. The portion of environmentally-friendly vehicles to the total car export hit a new high of 23.3 percent last month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In domestic market, sale of environmentally-friendly vehicles more than doubled to 32,144 units in Aug, on a yearly basis. It took up 24.7 percent of the total local automotive sale.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The combined local car sale shrank 3.3 percent over the year to 130,397 vehicles in Aug.&#8211; NNN-YONHAP <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SEOUL, Sept 15 (NNN-YONHAP) &#8211; South Korea&#8217;s automotive production rose last month, as solid demand for environmentally-friendly vehicles offset the shortage of semiconductors used for cars, a government report showed today. The number of vehicles, manufactured in domestic plants, was 234,893 in Aug, up 0.7 percent from a year earlier, according to the Ministry of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":144335,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[215,300],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144330"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=144330"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144330\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/144335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=144330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=144330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=144330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}