"SYM" was founded in 1954. In Taipei, Chang Chi-Chun and Huang Chi-Chun. The company is headquartered in Hsinchu County, Taiwan. It has three main manufacturing bases in Taiwan, China and Vietnam, and manufactures and sells scooters, motorcycles and ATVs and their parts under the SYM brand, as well as cars and mini trucks under the Hyundai brand. Since its inception, the company has produced more than 800,000 cars and 16 million scooters and motorcycles. About 600,000 units of motorcycles are produced per year.