South Korea orders recall of 125,522 Volkswagen vehicles

Testing shows the automaker intentionally manipulated a diesel emissions device in vehicles with an older engine

South Korea on Thursday said its own testing showed that Volkswagen AG intentionally manipulated a diesel emissions device in vehicles with an older engine, and ordered the recall of 125,522 cars.

In September, Europe's biggest auto manufacturer admitted that it installed software in up to 11 million diesel vehicles worldwide that vastly understated their actual emissions of smog-causing nitrogen oxides.

A spokesman for Volkswagen Korea could not be immediately reached.