<html><head><meta name="GENERATOR" content="TAGFREE Active Designer"><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><title></title></head><body><p style="line-height: 1.5; font-family: gulim; font-size: 9pt; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="color: rgb(128, 128, 128); font-family: 돋움;">Hyundai Motor Company, South Korea’s largest automaker, announced today its intention to pay out interim dividends for the first time in history.</span></p><p style="line-height: 1.5; font-family: gulim; font-size: 9pt; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><br><span style="color: rgb(128, 128, 128); font-family: 돋움;">Dividend payments, if approved by the Board of Directors (“Board”), will be made to those shareholders on record at the close of business on June 30, 2015.</span></p><p style="line-height: 1.5; font-family: gulim; font-size: 9pt; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><br><span style="color: rgb(128, 128, 128); font-family: 돋움;">Final approval on the interim dividend amount and the payout ratio will be determined at the next scheduled Board meeting.</span></p><p style="line-height: 1.5; font-family: gulim; font-size: 9pt; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><br><span style="color: rgb(128, 128, 128); font-family: 돋움;">In April 2015, Hyundai Motor established an independent ‘Corporate Governance & Communication Committee’ comprised of four outside directors as part of a sub-committee of the Board to enhance communications with its shareholders and promote shareholders’ rights.</span></p><p style="line-height: 1.5; font-family: gulim; font-size: 9pt; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><br><span style="color: rgb(128, 128, 128); font-family: 돋움;">Today’s announcement of a first-ever interim dividend marks another step forward by Hyundai Motor in an effort to maximize shareholders’ interest.</span></p></body></html>