Renault Korea won a Prime Minister's Award and Minister's Award on the '22nd Automobile Day' with three executives and employees
May 22, 2025
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Kim Soo-taek, director of production technology at Renault Korea, was highly praised for contributing to improving the competitiveness and securing sustainability of the Busan plant by establishing production facilities so that new platforms and electric vehicles can be produced in the existing single common line. In January, facility reinforcement was carried out to upgrade the existing hybrid production line to a line that can digest electric vehicles, and through this, Renault Korea's Busan plant will establish a system that can produce both internal combustion locomotives and electric vehicles in a single production line for the first time in the domestic automobile industry.
In addition, through collaboration with domestic companies, it successfully led the localization development of production facilities and contributed to the efficiency of investment costs. At the time of the development of Grand Corleos, it achieved the shortest development period within Renault Group by improving the construction method and contributed to the Busan plant's status as a global core base.
Based on consumer analysis in the early stages of the Grand Corleos development, director Kim Woo-sang set comprehensive performance goals such as fuel efficiency, driving, steering safety, brake performance, and driving stability, and played an important role in developing competitive vehicles through optimal testing and evaluation. Through this, we implemented the highest level of performance of Grand Coleos in KNCAP Grade 1, handling, fuel consumption, NVH, driving stability and durability.
In addition, Director Kim Woo-sang serves as a control tower for overall R&D activities, such as attracting a number of projects by informing Renault Korea Research Institute's competitiveness within the Renault Group. Renault Korea led the development of powertrains mounted on all vehicles released at home and abroad, and recently, it also oversaw the development and certification of Grand Corleos export-specification vehicles, contributing greatly to domestic sales and exports.
Lee Joo-hyung, the quality director of Renault Korea, is considered to have played a key role in strengthening quality competitiveness across the company. It has been carrying out quality-related work for the past 29 years and successfully launched Nissan Rogue in the North American market in 2013, achieving superior market quality than Nissan's Japanese Kyushu and Sumana plants, which supply the same vehicles.
In addition, last year, it confirmed the development quality roadmap of the Aurora project based on abundant new car and mass production quality experiences, and led the stable launch of Grand Colleos through various evaluations, improvement activities, and initial mass production quality management. In addition, Renault Korea's quality competitiveness is continuously being enhanced through data-based in-depth analysis and organic cooperation and improvement activities between sectors.
Editor Song Moon-cheol mc.song@carguy.kr
This article was translated by Naver AI translator.
