14 Facts About Hankook Tire

Hankook Tire was established by Jae Hun Chung's grandfather in 1941 as the Chosun Tire Company and was renamed to Hankook Tire Manufacturing in 1968.

Hankook Tire entered motorsports in Europe, North America, and in Asia.

Hankook Tire supplied tires for the Primetime Race Group that raced in the GT2 class of the American Le Mans Series in 2008.

In rallying, Hankook Tire are the series sponsors of the Scottish Rally Championship.

Since 2011, Hankook Tire is the official tyre partner for the Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters, one of the world's most popular touring car series.

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Hankook Tire sponsored Formula Drift driver Chris Forsberg, a three-time champion, until 2018 season.

Hankook Tire was once the major sponsor of the Melbourne Football Club in the Australian Football League.

Hankook Tire is one of the sponsors of the UEFA Europa League under the brand, Laufenn for the European markets except for the United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland.

Hankook Tire is involved in drifting sponsorship in a number of countries, most notably in North America in the Formula D championship and in Ireland in the Prodrift championship.

Hankook Tire is involved with simracing, as the main sponsor for Liga ZGT and ApexGT e-Sports, brazilians Gran Turismo Sport Simracing League.

Since 2018, Hankook has been the official tire of Major League Baseball and sponsored the 2020 MLB Wild Card Series.

Since 2019, Hankook Tire is the main sponsor of SVRT, a Gran Turismo Sport SimRacing Team.

In 2021 Hankook Tire will be sponsoring the 3DBotMaker Diecast Racing League on Youtube.

Hankook Tire received most of the awards from the German-based organizations International Forum Design and Red Dot.