A market analyst has advised just-auto that he expects development in the South Korean vehicle market to carry on in 2021.

South Korean Automakers saw a six.2% improve in January-November domestic automotive gross sales and South Korea is set to sign-up around 1.6m domestic vehicle gross sales in 2020. The country was the between the early COVID-19 hit nations but has also been foremost the market restoration.

Bakar Sadik Agwan, Senior Automotive Consulting Analyst at GlobalData, claims that even with slower exports desire this 12 months, thanks to world-wide COVID-19 impacts, domestic vehicle desire has remained solid in 2020 thanks to a amount of variables.

“There are quite a few variables that have been supporting the optimistic uptick in domestic gross sales these kinds of as the elevated need to have for personalized mobility, the availability of incentives on electrical automobiles, tax crack by the authorities, aggressive marketing strategies and the launch of new products, which has substantially fuelled the new vehicle desire,” Agwan maintains.

Agwan claims the Korean market could cross 1.six million models, which would mean maximum new vehicle gross sales whole because 12 months 2002.

South Korea’s prime 5 automakers Hyundai Motor Co., Kia Motors Corp., GM Korea Co., Renault Samsung Motors Corp. and SsangYong Motor Co. described a six.2% improve in domestic gross sales in January-November 2020. The firms bought a cumulative 1.47m models in the interval.

“At a time when exports, which account key share in Korean automaker gross sales, are declining, developing domestic desire is a key optimistic signal for domestic OEMs,” Agwan maintains.

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