One Big Car Crash - The Daewoo Story

At the end of the 20th century, it looked like the future belonged to Asia. Japanese electronics were second to none, as were their cars, and Korea wasn’t far behind. And one bright star was Daewoo. Founded in 1967, in just 30 years it was Korea’s second largest company. A meteoric rise then, but today its name has all but disappeared. Why did Daewoo decide to make cars, what’s its connection with General Motors and what became of it? If you'd like to support what I do, and get early access to advert-free videos and exclusive channel updates, please consider supporting the channel from just $1 or 80p a month: http://patreon.com/bigcar Support me using PayPal: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/bigcartv Big Car merch: https://teespring.com/stores/bigcartv Twitter: https://twitter.com/bigcartv My second channel - Little Car: https://www.youtube.com/littlecar Sources https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shinjin_Motors https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daewoo https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daewoo_Motors https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Daewoo_models https://www.icmrindia.org/casestudies/catalogue/Business%20Strategy1/Business%20Strategy%20The%20Fall%20of%20Daewoo%20Motors.htm https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saehan_Motors https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isuzu_Gemini https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GM_Korea https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honda_Legend https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daewoo_Motor_Sales https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daewoo_Lanos https://www.economist.com/business/1999/08/19/the-death-of-daewoo https://www.economist.com/unknown/2000/11/08/the-fall-of-the-house-that-kim-built https://www.economist.com/news-summaries/2001/02/22/business-this-week https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daewoo_Leganza https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chevrolet_Spark https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daewoo_Nubira https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GM_Korea https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chevrolet_Aveo_(T200) https://www.economist.com/special-report/2004/01/22/cadillac-comeback https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Woo-choong https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%ED%95%9C%EA%B5%AD%EC%A7%80%EC%97%A0 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Motors https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a18743309/suzuki-ends-u-s-car-sales-why-it-had-to-do-it/ https://carsalesbase.com/us-daewoo/ https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EB%8C%80%EC%9A%B0%EA%B7%B8%EB%A3%B9 #bigcar

Added 4 May 2026