Sales of Japanese cars are growing in South Korea’s import car market.

Data by the Korea Automobile Importers and Distributors Association show Japanese automakers Lexus, Toyota, Honda, Nissan and Infiniti accounted for 17-point-two percent of the country's import car market in May.

The figure represents an increase of about six percentage points from 2014, a year before German automaker Volkswagen's massive emissions scandal.

Honda placed third in the import car sales rankings after BMW and Mercedes-Benz. Lexus and Toyota came in sixth and seventh, respectively.