Kia Hosts '2023 Star Awards'... "Honoring Outstanding Sellers"

The top Kia sales champions of 2022 gathered in one place.

On the 17th, Kia held the '2023 Kia Star Awards' event at the Haevichi Hotel in Jeju and announced on the 20th that 151 outstanding sales performers from last year were awarded.

The Kia Star Awards encourage the achievements of outstanding sales employees from the previous year. It is an event to reaffirm the commitment to meet customer expectations with better service.

At this year's event, Senior Auto Consultant Lee Kwang-wook from the Sangam branch, who sold 670 units last year, was honored as the Kia Sales King.

Senior Lee Kwang-wook joined Kia in 1995 and has consistently met customers on the sales front for 28 years. For his achievement of selling a cumulative total of 4,000 units, he was named the 24th Grand Master earlier this year.

Senior Lee Kwang-wook shared his acceptance speech, saying, “I believe the good results came from reflecting on many failures and trials I experienced during sales, thinking more from the customer's perspective, and continuing sincere encounters.”

The top 10 Kia Sales Kings list following Senior Lee Kwang-wook includes ▲Park Kwang-joo, Sales Director of Daechi Gallery branch ▲Lee Seon-joo, Senior of Dangjin branch ▲Jung Tae-sam, Sales Director of Jeonju branch ▲Jang In-hyuk, Senior of Sangam branch ▲Go Sang-hee, Senior of Sanggye branch ▲Shin Min-chul, Senior of Seongnam branch ▲Hong Jae-seok, Sales Director of Chungchu branch ▲Jin Yoo-seok, Senior of Shin Guro branch ▲and Lee Young-rok, Senior of Seo Jeonju branch.

Kia invited 165 family members of outstanding sales employees in conjunction with the awards ceremony, providing a dinner event and a two-day travel opportunity with their families so that they could take pride as excellent Kia salespeople and recharge with their families.

Kia operates various reward systems such as the ‘Kia Star Awards’ and the ‘Long-term Sales Honor Reward System’ to enhance the pride of sales employees and encourage healthy sales competition.

Through the Kia Star Awards, Kia confers the titles ▲‘Kia Sales King’ for the top 1 to 10 in highest sales ▲‘Kia Superstar (SUPERSTAR)’ for annual sales of 200 units or more ▲‘Kia Star (STAR)’ for annual sales of 120 units or more.

Honorary titles awarded to long-term outstanding sales performers include ▲‘Star’ upon reaching 2,000 cumulative sales ▲‘Master’ upon reaching 3,000 units ▲‘Grand Master’ upon reaching 4,000 units ▲and ‘Great Master’ upon reaching 5,000 units.

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