DUSHANBE, June 9, 0211, Asia-Plus  -- In the framework of its visit to Korea, Tajik parliamentary delegation, headed by the Majlisi Namoyandagon (Tajikistan’s lower chamber of parliament) head Shukurjon Zuhurov, yesterday visited GM Korea Company.

Muhammadato Sultonov, a spokesman for the Majlisi Namoyandagon, says Tajik MPs met with Vice President of Sales, Service and Marketing Ankush Arora and engineering personnel of the company.

During the meeting, Shukurjon Zuhurov expressed gratitude to the GM Korea Company management for a US$3 million grant awarded for construction of several small hydropower plants in Vanj district, Gorno Badakhshan, Sultonov said.

GM Korea Company (former GM Daewoo Auto and Technology Company or GM DAT) is the third largest South-Korean automobile manufacturer, member and part of the General Motors Company.

GM Korea roots go back to the former Daewoo Group which went bankrupt in 1999.  It has five manufacturing facilities in Korea as well as an assembly facility in Vietnam.  In addition, GM Korea provides market and brand-specific vehicle kits for assembly at GM facilities in China, Thailand, India, Colombia and Venezuela.  In 2008, GM Daewoo sold in Korea and exported more than 1.9 million units, including CKD products.  GM Korea now produces vehicles and kits for Chevrolet, Opel/Vauxhall, Holden and Suzuki that are offered in more than 150 markets on six continents.  On January 20, 2011, General Motors announced that GM Daewoo would be renamed GM Korea Co. "to reflect its heightened status in global operations of GM," effective March 2011.  Most of the vehicles will be rechristened as Chevrolets, with plans for GM in South Korea to establish either Opel or Buick there.