KIEV, Feb. 3 ??“ Bohdan Corp., an automobile manufacturing arm of Ukrprominvest Group, plans to boost assembling KIA cars to 8,000 next year, Oleh Svynarchuk, the president of Bohdan, said Friday.

"Recently, we started to assemble KIA cars at Lutsk Car Plant, and we are planning to increase KIA car output and sales in response to the growth in demand for the cars, and we are in talks on launching KIA car production," Svynarchuk said.