More than half of Korean-brand vehicles sold in Korea in the first six months of the year were diesel-powered... as drivers sought out cars with better fuel efficiency... and that run on cheaper fuel.
According to industry data released on Tuesday, five local automakers, including Hyundai Motor and Kia Motors,… sold nearly 900-thousand vehicles from January to the end of June.
Of those, over 466-thousand, or nearly 52 percent, were diesel cars.
Out of the ten best-selling models, six were diesel-powered like Hyundai's Porter truck and Kia's Carnival.
The ratio of imported diesel-powered cars has been on a sharp rise as well... topping the 50 percent mark in 2012.

Title: Obama unveils Clean Power Plan in line with worrying climate data
"빙하 역대 최고 빠른 속도로 녹아내리는 중"
A recent global study shows the world's glaciers are melting at an unprecedented rate.
The release of the worrying report coincided with U.S. President Barack Obama announcing his plans to tackle climate change by slashing carbon emissions over the next 15 years.
Sohn Jung-in has the details.

Glaciers worldwide are melting at a faster rate than ever before.
According to a new study by the World Glacier Monitoring Service, glaciers are currently losing between 50 to 100 centimeters of thickness every year.
That means they are melting two to three times quicker than the corresponding average recorded during the 20th century.
The study,... published on Monday,... is based on data collected from more than 30 countries over the past 120 years.

Coincidentally, on the same day the worrying statistics were released, U.S. President Barack Obama unveiled his Clean Power Plan, one of the key pillars of his administration's plans to tackle man-made climate change.
Under the plan, the United States will reduce carbon pollution from power plants by 32 percent from 2005 levels by 2030.
Speaking at the White House on Monday, a few months before international climate talks in Paris,... Obama said the world may not be abl