KIA has made tremendous strides in Ireland, and in every developed market, in the last five years or so. It has transformed itself: it was a moderately interesting and cost-effective alternative to the established European and Japanese brands.

FOR two years, I have been banging on about how the "Koreans are coming" and I’m not referring to the military strength of Kim Jong-Un’s recently inherited Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, but to the industrial strength of their hated southern neighbours in the Republic of Korea.

FOR two years, I have been banging on about how the “Koreans are coming” and I’m not referring to the military strength of Kim Jong-Un’s recently inherited Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, but to the industrial strength of their hated southern neighbours in the Republic of Korea.