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11 unusual facts about Daewoo


Daewoo

He graduated from the Kyonggi High School, then finished with an Economics Degree at Yonsei University in Seoul.

She invited 3000 guests to the opening, including Russian President Vladimir Putin.

The field is located at blocks A-1 and A-3 at the Shwe field, about 100 km off Sittwe in Rakhine State.

Daewoo Precision Industries USAS-12

It turned out that the only maker that agreed to produce this weapon was the South Korean company Daewoo Precision Industries, a part of the high-tech Daewoo conglomerate.

The Daewoo Precision Industries USAS-12 (Universal Sports Automatic Shotgun 12 gauge) is an automatic shotgun designed as a combat shotgun manufactured in South Korea by Daewoo Precision Industries during the 1980s.

Henry Odein Ajumogobia

In this role, he began serious talks with rebel groups in the oil-producing area, including the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta, and in June 2007 played a key role in negotiating the release of kidnapped workers of the South Korean contracting company Daewoo.

Lahore Ring Road

At that time, Daewoo and other foreign companies had signed a memorandum of understanding with the LDA.

Petroplus

In 1997, it acquired the Antwerp N.V. Refinery from the Daewoo Group.

Shirur, Maharashtra

Many manufactures have set up facilities here, among them Apollo Tyres; Whirlpool India, making refrigerators; LG Electronics, making televisions and mobile handsets; Daewoo Electronics, making refrigerators; Wheels India; Bajaj Electricals; Frito-Lay of Pepsico Holdings, manufacturing Lays potato chips; Fiat automobiles; Kirloskar; Swarovski; and Ohsung, a Korean company manufacturing electronics parts.

TagAZ

Construction of the Taganrog Automotive Plant began in Spring 1997, under license and technology of South Korean Daewoo Motors, and was fully financed by Doninvest Finance & Industry Group, with investment volumes surpassing US$ 260 million.

Wiesbaden-Nordenstadt

Its population is approximately 8,500 and it hosted the first corporate headquarter of Daewoo Germany in the early 1990s.


Afro-Asian Club Championship

The finals were always held between the African Champions' Cup winners from the earlier calendar year (given year minus 1) and the Asian Champions' Cup winners who won the title in the previous season (given year minus 1/given year), e.g. the inaugural 1986 final was held between 1985 African Champions' Cup winners FAR Rabat and the 1985–86 Asian Club Championship winners Daewoo Royals.

Captiva

Chevrolet Captiva, a concept vehicle developed by GM Daewoo and now in production

Convection microwave

Companies such as Wolf, GE, Sharp, Samsung,Panasonic and Daewoo all currently produce convection microwaves.

Daewoo Motors

In August 1992, Daewoo set up UzDaewooAuto, a joint venture in Asaka, Uzbekistan, leveraging the presence of a large local ethnic Korean minority.

Daewoo Precision Industries K3

Daewoo Precision Industries K3 was the third indigenous firearm developed in Republic of Korea by the Agency for Defense Development, following the Daewoo Precision Industries K1 submachine gun and Daewoo Precision Industries K2 assault rifle.

Daewoo Securities

Daewoo Securities was founded in 1970 as part of the Daewoo Corporation, the second largest conglomerate in Korea after Hyundai.

GM Korea

The end of the same year, GM Daewoo introduced the Winstorm, its first proper sport utility vehicle (SUV), which was, as the Lacetti, sold worldwide under different marques and names including Opel, Chevrolet, GMC and Holden, and previously Saturn before the demise of that brand in 2010.

Gunsan

In the domestic market vehicles are sold under Daewoo brand however Tata brandname is used for export due to the dilution of Daewoo brand.

KeeLoq

KeeLoq is or was used in many remote keyless entry systems by such companies as Chrysler, Daewoo, Fiat, GM, Honda, Toyota, Volvo, Volkswagen Group, Clifford, Shurlok, Jaguar, etc.

Lada Riva

The Riva was still selling well in the United Kingdom and many other western markets in the early 1990s, but the next few years saw a raft of new models come from budget competitors such as Daewoo, Hyundai, Kia and Proton, pushing Lada sales into terminal decline.

Orchard Towers

After the murders, the bodies of the two deceased were left inside a silver Daewoo Chairman 400 which was abandoned on the 6th story of the Orchard Towers car park.

Pontiac LeMans

The Pontiac/Daewoo Lemans was a rebadged variant of the Opel Kadett; Opel Kadett Combo (European markets); Vauxhall Astra Mark 2, Vauxhall Belmont, Bedford Astravan, Bedford Astramax (Britain); Chevrolet Kadett(1989) (in Brazil); and the UzDaewooAuto Nexia (in Uzbekistan).

Premier Padmini

The Padmini was never able to compete with the more modern, value-for-money and fuel-efficient cars manufactured by Ford, GM, Daewoo, Honda and Hyundai.

S-TEC

Daewoo S-TEC engine, low-displacement engine codeveloped by Suzuki and Daewoo Motors

Silver Nano

In 2005 the South Korean Consumer Protection Board concluded Samsung's Silver Wash technology was exaggerated in advertisements, due to test results which showed 99.9% removal of germs by similar drum-type washers of LG Electronics, Daewoo Electronics, and Whirlpool.

ZF 4HP14 transmission

Introduced in 1987, and produced through 2001, it was used in Citroën, Peugeot, and Daewoo front-wheel drive cars.