SEOUL—Kia Corp. has opened a state-of-the-art factory that will enable it to ramp up production of electric vehicles.

WEST POINT, GA—A South Korean auto parts supplier will invest more than $240 million to build a transmission assembly plant here.

PESQUERIA, Mexico—Quality and production runs are under way at Kia’s new vehicle assembly plant here, which is considered 95 percent completed. Construction and tooling of the $3 billion plant was completed in just 13 months. The factory should have an annual production capacity of 300,000 vehicles.

Less than four years after opening, Kia Motors Manufacturing Georgia Inc. (KMMG) celebrated the assembly of its one millionth vehicle on July, 11, 2013.

WEST POINT, GA—Investigators are trying to determine why an assembly line worker shot a co-worker at the Kia Motors assembly plant here.

More market share is always the goal of every automaker, whether it’s based in the United States, Europe or Asia.

WEST POINT, GA—A worker at Kia Motors’ assembly plant here was killed Oct. 7 after heavy materials fell on him in the stamping department.

MEXICO CITY—South Korean carmaker Kia is planning to build a $1 billion assembly plant in Mexico.

ATLANTA—The Georgia Supreme Court sided with Gov. Nathan Deal and Kia Motors in an open records battle over access to hiring documents from Kia's assembly plant in West Point, GA. In the lawsuit, several unemployed, union auto workers accused Kia and state officials of creating a screening and hiring process that excluded union workers.

WEST POINT, GA—Less than four years after production began, the Kia Motors assembly plant here has produced its 1 millionth vehicle.