South Korea’s environmental regulator has fined two foreign automakers 476m won ($US507,000) for violating the nation’s emission rules.


According to Yonhap News, the National Institute of Environmental Research, affiliated with the Ministry of Environment, imposed fines on Mercedes-Benz and Ford’s Land Rover for mistakenly installing European-compliant emission-control devices into their vehicles instead of US-compliant devices.

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