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Zyle Daewoo Bus

company

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 15, 2026
Entity authorityQ292225
Source-derived summary

Zyle Daewoo Bus, formerly "Zyle Daewoo Commercial Vehicle" is a South Korean manufacturer of buses and is majority owned by Young-An Hat Company, based in Busan. It was established in 2002 as a successor to previous merger, Daewoo Motor Company. These buses are primarily used for public transportation. Daewoo Bus has been in a partnership in 2006 with GM Daewoo (now GM Korea).

Operations

Current Production

Daewoo Bus' principal subsidiaries and partners are:

Zyle Daewoo Bus Corporation (Ulsan, South Korea)

Shanghai Wanxiang Daewoo Bus (Shanghai, China)

Guilin Daewoo (Guilin, China)

Daewoo Bus Costa Rica S.A. (San José, Costa Rica)

Daewoo Bus Vietnam (Vĩnh Phúc, Vietnam)

Daewoo Bus Kazakhstan (Semey, Kazakhstan)

Daewoo Pak Motors (Pvt.) Ltd. (Karachi, Pakistan)

Columbian Manufacturing Corporation (Santa Rosa, Laguna, Philippines)

Master Transportation Bus Manufacturing Ltd. (Taiwan)

Daewoo Bus Myanmar (Yangon, Myanmar)

Former Production

Daewoo Bus Busan Plant.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Zyle Daewoo Bus” is company. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Zyle, Daewoo and company, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA useful synthesis for locating the documentary relationships between formal authority, participants and affected communities. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2002, 2006—that can be checked directly. The authority record carries competing date values—2002, 2002-08-30—which should remain separate until their references and qualifiers are resolved. For this dossier, Zyle, Daewoo and company is the immediate research focus.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The phrase “company” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

Chronology, provenance and viewpoint should be read together before a broad social or political interpretation is accepted. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 15, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q292225. 3 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 1 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2002 and 2006.

Critical limits

Official terminology may obscure informal participation, dissent or communities documented only indirectly. The source lead contains qualifying language; that uncertainty should survive quotation, summary and reuse. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

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Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Zyle Daewoo Bus”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Zyle Daewoo Bus primary sources, Zyle Daewoo Bus archive and Zyle research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Zyle Daewoo Bus”?
  2. Which voices are present, absent or mediated by the institution?
  3. Who created the surviving record, and for what administrative purpose?
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This entry incorporates text from Zyle Daewoo Bus” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.