<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;"><strong><span style="color: rgb(128, 128, 128); font-family: 돋움;">- New skills training center opens in Rwanda’s Eastern Province</span><br><span style="color: rgb(128, 128, 128); font-family: 돋움;">- Center established to teach agricultural skills to young adults, to develop sustainable farms and generate greater income from <strong><span style="color: rgb(128, 128, 128); font-family: 돋움;">agriculture</span><br><span style="color: rgb(128, 128, 128); font-family: 돋움;">- Tenth site opened by Kia under ‘Green Light Project’ corporate social responsibility program since 2012</span><br><span style="color: rgb(128, 128, 128); font-family: 돋움;">- Green Light Project aims to improve self-sufficiency and social mobility</span></strong></span></strong></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;"><strong>(SEOUL) March 28, 2018 -</strong> Kia Motors has opened a new ‘Green Light Project’ (GLP) Vocational Training Center in Rwanda, aimed primarily <span style="color: rgb(128, 128, 128); font-family: 돋움;">at teaching agricultural skills to young adults. The new GLP Vocational Training Center is located in the densely populated Gahengeri <span style="color: rgb(128, 128, 128); font-family: 돋움;">Sector of the Rwamagana district in Rwanda’s Eastern Province.</span></span></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;">By setting up the new GLP training facility, Kia hopes to foster greater self-sufficiency throughout the region, helping local <span style="color: rgb(128, 128, 128); font-family: 돋움;">communities generate sustainable income from agricultural sales.</span></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;">The local economy is heavily dependent on agriculture, with farmers making up 90 percent of the Gahengeri Sector’s working population. </span></p><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;">However, there are typically low levels of productivity due to the dense population and mountainous nature of the region. A lack of <span style="color: rgb(128, 128, 128); font-family: 돋움;">skills and machinery, as well as poor storage facilities and an inadequate infrastructure, also pose challenges.</span></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;">Kia’s GLP Vocational Training Center will not only act as a job training facility - it will also provide an agricultural machinery <span style="color: rgb(128, 128, 128); font-family: 돋움;">rental service and incubation program to local farmers, supporting new and existing farms with harvesting, sales and distribution. </span></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;"> “The aim of the Green Light Project is to improve social mobility and enable communities to become more self-sufficient,” said <span style="color: rgb(128, 128, 128); font-family: 돋움;">Kyehwan Roh, head of CSR Management Team at Kia Motors. “The new center in Rwanda will help people across this region overcome a range <span style="color: rgb(128, 128, 128); font-family: 돋움;">of obstacles and challenges they face in developing a livelihood from agriculture.”</span></span></span></p><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;"> </span><br><span style="color: rgb(128, 128, 128); font-family: 돋움;"><strong>The Green Light Project</strong></span><br><span style="color: rgb(128, 128, 128); font-family: 돋움;">The Rwanda GLP vocational training center is the latest stage in Kia’s ongoing ‘Green Light Project’ global corporate social <span style="color: rgb(128, 128, 128); font-family: 돋움;">responsibility (CSR) program. The Green Light Project strives to improve access to healthcare, education and employment for <span style="color: rgb(128, 128, 128); font-family: 돋움;">disadvantaged children and young adults in some of the most underdeveloped regions in the world. The program seeks to ‘turn the red <span style="color: rgb(128, 128, 128); font-family: 돋움;">light to green’ for individuals and communities, empowering them with the skills and opportunities they need to improve their lives.</span></span></span></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;">With the establishment of each Green Light Project facility, Kia’s final goal is to hand over full control to a local community.</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;">The Rwanda center is the tenth GLP project that Kia has established across seven different African nations since 2012. The opening <span style="color: rgb(128, 128, 128); font-family: 돋움;">ceremony was attended by local residents and a host of dignitaries, including Mr. Rajab Mbonyumuvunyi, mayor of Rwamagana District; Mr. <span style="color: rgb(128, 128, 128); font-family: 돋움;">Fred Mufurukye, governor of Rwanda’s Eastern Province; South Korean Ambassador to Rwanda Eung Joong Kim; and Mr. Byung Hwa Lee, Korea <span style="color: rgb(128, 128, 128); font-family: 돋움;">International Cooperation Agency (KOICA) Rwanda Director. Also present were Han-yoon So, Director of Merry Year International, and Mr. <span style="color: rgb(128, 128, 128); font-family: 돋움;">Kyehwan Roh, of Kia’s CSR Management Team, which oversees the Green Light Project.</span></span></span></span></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;">At present, Kia's Green Light Project is working with local people on projects in six other neighboring African countries - Tanzania, <span style="color: rgb(128, 128, 128); font-family: 돋움;">Mozambique, Malawi, Kenya, Uganda and Ethiopia. Kia plans to expand its project continuously throughout other developing countries in <span style="color: rgb(128, 128, 128); font-family: 돋움;">Africa and around the world. </span></span></span></p>?
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