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On top of Dave's point that we weren't at war with South Korea, it's worth noting that KIA has spent something like $1.5 billion building facilities in North America and is just completing a major expansion of their assembly plant at West Point Ga. Should be building 2 models this year (Sportage and Optima IIRC) and the folks in West Georgia/East Alabama appreciate the jobs (somewhere around 4000 at this point between the plant and suppliers) all because North American demand for their vehicles meant it made more sense to start building some of them here.
When you breakdown what you spent on a car.. .yep some of the money makes it to South Korea. Your dealer gets to stay in business though cause he kept part of it... the US trucker that delivered kept his job another week... and a longshoreman somewhere got to buy Christmas presents. You're helping drive the economy, don't sweat where the $$ went... and realize if you'd bought something similar from the big three the $$ would have flowed somewhere other that strictly US too (at a minimum parts would have come from overseas... final assembly on a lot of things aren't stateside either).
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