Steve Yeom is named the new Managing Director (MD) for German sales at Kumho Tire Europe GmbH, effective September since 1. Yeom will be managing all Kumho Tire stores in Germany.
He succeeds former MD, YS Kim, who will return to South Korea to work in the company’s headquatrters.
Yeom has been part of Kumho Tire since 1996 and held various positions in the company.
In 2000, he moved to Kumho Tire Australia before returning to Korea in 2006. From 2007 to 2010, he worked as a Marketing Manager in the North American Kumho headquarters in Los Angeles, as well as manager of the North American sales office in New York.
Between 2010 and 2012 Yeom became a General Manager at Kumho in Mexico, then to the corporate headquarters in Seoul before being appointed as Managing Director of Kumho Tire Europe GmbH.