Here's some blurbs from the Kukje Website:
</font><font color="blue" class="small">( December 1980 Signed technical cooperation agreement on agricultural machinery with Yanmar Co. in Japan
October 1987 Signed the technical cooperation agreement on tractor manufacturing with John Deere Co. and Selected as the representative office of Korea )</font>
Kukje Product Line
Green Kukje
Now why are there JD's on the Daedong site? It seems odd that one company would make the 6X10 serires and another the 6X20 series. Maybe JD has changed their Korean partner. I don't know have any answers here, just some observations/conjectures.
It isn't too uncommon for manufacturers to have licensing for production of their product locally or regionally around the world. General Dynamics (now Lockheed Martin) in Fort Worth, Texas, the home of the Fighting Falcon, the F-16, has had licensing agreements for the manufacture of F-16's in Korea, Turkey, as well Belgium, Norway & Netherlands for use in their own countries. American fighter planes built in Korea? Technically they are American designed fighter planes built in Korea for the Korean Air Force and only the Korean Air Force. I've given tours in the U.S. factory many times, so I know that exists, but my wife has been in the F-16 factory in Turkey, so I know that one exists also.
BTW, I'm not bashing JD in anyway. Heres a couple of Korean New Hollands that I found:
New Holland Daedong
New Hollan LG
One point for Green Pride: The Koreans aren't taking JD's and painting them Orange or Red to be sold under their own label.
</font><font color="blue" class="small">( December 1980 Signed technical cooperation agreement on agricultural machinery with Yanmar Co. in Japan
October 1987 Signed the technical cooperation agreement on tractor manufacturing with John Deere Co. and Selected as the representative office of Korea )</font>
Kukje Product Line
Green Kukje
Now why are there JD's on the Daedong site? It seems odd that one company would make the 6X10 serires and another the 6X20 series. Maybe JD has changed their Korean partner. I don't know have any answers here, just some observations/conjectures.
It isn't too uncommon for manufacturers to have licensing for production of their product locally or regionally around the world. General Dynamics (now Lockheed Martin) in Fort Worth, Texas, the home of the Fighting Falcon, the F-16, has had licensing agreements for the manufacture of F-16's in Korea, Turkey, as well Belgium, Norway & Netherlands for use in their own countries. American fighter planes built in Korea? Technically they are American designed fighter planes built in Korea for the Korean Air Force and only the Korean Air Force. I've given tours in the U.S. factory many times, so I know that exists, but my wife has been in the F-16 factory in Turkey, so I know that one exists also.
BTW, I'm not bashing JD in anyway. Heres a couple of Korean New Hollands that I found:
New Holland Daedong
New Hollan LG
One point for Green Pride: The Koreans aren't taking JD's and painting them Orange or Red to be sold under their own label.
