SEOUL: South Korean environmental officials questioned Volkswagen representatives Wednesday after the German auto giant was found to have cheated on US emissions tests.
The meeting at the environment ministry focused on the timing and methods for tests to be conducted in South Korea.
"We will complete our work by the end of November," a ministry official told AFP.
The scandal escalated dramatically Tuesday when the automaker revealed 11 million of its cars worldwide could be affected, a disclosure which wiped a third off its market value and threatened to topple the chief executive.
Of the five models equipped with test-cheating software in the United States, four have been imported to South Korea -- the Golf, Audi A3, Jetta and Beetle -- and about 59,000 of them are on the road.
The US Environmental Protection Agency said VW had been fitting diesel vehicles in the US with software that turns on full pollution controls only when the car is undergoing official emissions testing.
As a result, the agency said the diesel cars at other times emit greater than allowed quantities of pollution linked to smog and various health problems.
As the United States opened a criminal investigation, the automaker's chief executive Martin Winterkorn offered his "deepest apologies" for the scandal.
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