Korean car encyclopedia
Everything about cars,
made simple.
Chajaengi explains how cars actually work — from the difference between petrol and diesel to turbochargers, dual-clutch gearboxes, service intervals and every warning light on your dashboard. Built around a searchable database of 75 models sold in Korea, with calculators for running costs and road tax.
- Reference pages
- 30
- Models in database
- 75
- Detailed model pages
- 63
- Interactive tools
- 6
About this English edition
- The navigation, this page and our legal pages are fully translated and reviewed by a human. The in-depth articles are being translated one at a time rather than run through machine translation, because a car guide that gets a technical term wrong is worse than no guide at all. Until each article is ready, the links below open the Korean original — your browser can translate those pages on demand.
What you will find here.
Six sections people come back to most often
Model spec database
75 cars sold in Korea with power, torque, fuel economy, transmission, drivetrain and price — filterable by segment, origin and fuel type, with 63 of them expanded into full detail pages.
Korean originalDashboard warning lights
What each symbol means, why it came on, and whether you should pull over immediately or book a garage next week. Sorted by colour, because red and amber are not the same thing.
Korean originalEngine bay, photographed
Real photographs of five engine bays — petrol, diesel, hybrid and electric — with each component labelled on the image. Open the bonnet and actually know what you are looking at.
Korean originalDIY maintenance
13 jobs broken into 82 steps with 43 photographs. Washer fluid, wipers, filters, bulbs, battery, coolant, fuses, tyres and oil — with difficulty, time, DIY cost versus garage cost, and a clear note on when to stop and call a professional.
Korean originalRunning cost simulator
Fuel, tax, insurance, servicing and depreciation combined into a five-year total cost of ownership, plotted as a graph. Useful for comparing a hybrid against a diesel honestly.
Korean originalGlossary
Torque, compression ratio, DCT, ADAS, LSD, turbo lag. Searchable, grouped by field, and cross-linked from the articles so you never hit a term you cannot look up.
Korean originalWhy a Korean car site is worth reading.
Even if you never drive in Korea
Hyundai and Kia, from the home market
Korean-market trims, generation codes and engine options often differ from the export versions. If you own a Tucson, Sportage, Ioniq or EV6, the domestic spec sheets are the ones the engineering was built around.
Technology explained, not marketed
Manufacturer brochures describe what a feature is called. These pages describe what it does, when it fails, and what it costs to fix — which is the part you actually need.
Maintenance is universal
An oil filter, a brake pad and a cabin filter behave the same everywhere. The service intervals, wear symptoms and DIY procedures here apply regardless of which country registered your car.
Languages.
Three editions, one site
- Korean is the original and complete edition — all 30 reference pages plus 63 model detail pages.
- English and German currently cover the full interface, this landing page, the privacy policy and the terms of use. Articles are added as they are translated and checked.
- You can switch language at any time from the globe button in the header, or from the buttons at the bottom of every page. Your choice is reflected in the URL, so links you share keep the language.
Legal.
Fully translated and current
Privacy Policy
What data is processed, how advertising cookies work, how to opt out of personalised ads, and what rights you have. Includes the disclosures required by the Google AdSense programme policies.
Terms of Use
The conditions of use, the limits of the information provided, liability, copyright and how to request removal of an image.
Start anywhere.
Search works across every page in Korean and English keywords — try "turbo", "DCT", "warning light" or a model name.