As part of the future growth strategy outlined at the end of 2021, General Motors announced the ongoing work as part of a significant investment to manufacture next-generation global products at the GM Bupyeong plant in South Korea.
The automaker stated that it would invest 200 billion Won (about $160 million at current exchange rates) in Plant 1 of the Bupyeong complex, where it will manufacture new global products starting next year, in addition to the Chevy Trailblazer and Buick Encore GX that are currently being built. The automaker hinted that one of those future vehicles will also be built simultaneously at the GM Changwon plant.
“The next-generation global product that will be manufactured in Changwon and Bupyeong is one of the key models to accelerate the business turnaround of Korea operations,” said GM Korea’s President and CEO, Roberto Rempel. “The global product launched next year is a model that has integrated all the capabilities of GM Korea’s plants – from product design to engineering to production. We will do our absolute best to ensure a successful launch,” he added.
According to the company, this investment at the Bupyeong plant has been underway since the end of 2021 and continues the commitment to renew its infrastructure in South Korea to manufacture next-generation crossovers. In conjunction with the renovated Changwon Plant, the upgraded Bupyeong plant 1 will achieve the production capacity of 500,000 vehicles per year that GM promised in 2018.
Thanks to this investment, the Bupyeong plant will have new body shops, assembly shops, and new press shops equipped with new robots capable of handling the production of vehicles of different sizes and manufacturing two models simultaneously.
The next model GM Korea will build at the Bupyeong plant starting in 2023 could be Chevrolet’s upcoming global compact crossover announced earlier for the Changwon plant. As GM Authority reported last month, that vehicle could be either the next leaked Chevy Seeker in China or the next-generation Chevy Trax that GM recently announced.
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Was bailed out from bankruptcy in 2009 to ‘keep good paying jobs in America.”
Since then they have been offshoring more and more products.
Wonder if Mary Barra flies a Korean flag from her front porch.
Cool, more foreign built crossovers. Just what everyone has been clamoring for.
USA build it here
Better to build vehicles in Korea then to be held hostage by UAW labor policies
The way it’s going GM will cease making the ICE and will be making EV’s in the US. So from the looks of it if we want an ICE vehicle, we will be driving one that’s made in Korea, only if they import them
Wow GM! You've created the perfect storm. You blame UAW for your incapable highly overrated paid management that purposely threw a proposal at the very people that want to be working and supporting a family and a future in both USA and Canada. It is become disgraceful that you offshore then expect the buying public to purchase vehicles that are over rated like you in management and apply for federal grants to line your pockets, yes all of you, line your pockets BIG time with bonuses!
Try to purchase a vehicle now and you get nothing but nonsense and oh yes order one you might get it in a year or so. Really! Send a ship out of Korea to North America to find out that Vancouver dock is unable to accept the vehicles NOW sit out on the Ocean for weeks on end then through the Panama and eventually around to Boston to unload (11 MONTHS). FANTASTIC now your new cars will rust to death before the warranty is up. HAHAHA shameful!
Maybe if you assemble the vehicle in plants in, hmmm say Detroit, Windsor, Oshawa, etc. NORTH AMERICA, a truck can transport to dealer with the help of rail service as well, then dealerships could thrive, people can buy and enjoy a NORTH American produced WITH PRIDE all the while creating a economy that no other can match!
Remember when we had a thriving economy. The big 3 weren't looking for hand outs from the feds and folks had decent incomes and futures with the BIG 3.
You can blame everyone else for your purposeful shameful tactics but the greatest source of your bonus is the the handouts and payoffs from the feds. In the meantime hard working patriots sit idle with no future for them or there families in the auto industry. Perhaps its time to adjust your way of thinking. GM is a people business. Without people you have nothing! No sales, no repeat customers, no employees, no nothing. Sad!
SHAKE UP GM! Then shape up. Its a mess.
Good morning,
I have beed searcing for the controler card that goes into my left side head lamp for a chevrolet Captiva LTZ Diesel with no luck, the vin Number for my car is: KL1FC6C65JB025395, It is a Korean made auto, and the agents here in Honduras will not help in finding me this part, they will only offer the whole unit wich is very costly, LP. 40,000 in dolar it is equivalent to $1,626.00 the light is not damage, all works when testing with a scaner but the led part stopped working due to the fault in the electrical controller card inside this light, if there is anyway you can help me find this part in your company, I will greatly appreciate it, attached is a picture of my light.
Regards,
Luis Dixon