Sedan cars in Korea have seen their weakest sales in 12 years,... amid the soaring popularity of sports utility vehicles.
According to the Korea Automobile Manufacturers Association, 694-thousand sedans were sold in the country last year,... down by seven-point-seven percent from 2017.
The figure also represents the first time since 2006 that the number of sales has dropped below 700-thousand.
And the market share held by sedans has fallen by more than 20 percentage points compared to 2010,... hitting 53-point-four percent last year.
Meanwhile, SUV sales have grown consistently,... doubling from 256-thousand sold in 2012 to nearly 520-thousand vehicles in 2018.
