SsangYong
SsangYong Motor Company is the fourth largest South Korean automobile manufacturer. SsangYong originally started out as Ha Dong-hwan Motor Co in mid-1963. After changing its name to Dong-A Motor in 1977, it was taken over by SsangYong Business Grouping 1986 and changed its name to SsangYong Motor.
The Korean SsangYong Business Group is now a large corporation with interests in cement, oil, paper and financial, information and leisure services. SsangYong bought the Ha Dong Hwan Motor Company, which had been making four wheel drives and trucks since 1954.
In 1991, SsangYong formed a partnership with Mercedes Benz. They licensed light commercial diesel and petrol engines etcetera. The SsangYong Musso has been in production since 1993 and the smaller Korando since 1997.
In 2002, production of the Rexton bgean and in late 2003 production of the Musso Sports Utility began.
SsangYong means "twin dragons". It refers to a legend in which two dragons waited 1000 years to fly to dragon heaven.