South Korean carmaker Hyundai Motor bucked a sluggish industry trend in Europe and China and boosted sales in a recovering U.S. market to push up quarterly net profit by almost a third to $2.15 billio

South Korea's top automaker Hyundai Motor said on Sunday that its chairman would give $462 million to charity, partly fulfilling a pledge made in 2006 while being investigated for corruption.

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