Jorge Candeias describes H346 as quite dubious. Rosanoski thinks it derives from an animated flag-like appendage on the website heading: during its movement the stripes change from red-white-red-blue-white-blue to blue-white-blue-red-white-red, with the whites described as narrow. Actual photographed flags are chiefly fringed and lettered corporate or ceremonial examples.
The funnel has a cream ground and the company’s overlapping triangles. An initial sighting recorded only a green triangle, later corrected to include yellow projecting behind on the left, which can be difficult to distinguish against the funnel colour. Hyundai No. 14 and Hyundai No. 202 confirmed the arrangement. Mitchell’s black rear triangle is regarded by Rosanoski as a visibility problem against his yellow ground. The source’s first-sighting and correspondence dates are inconsistent and remain in traceability.
H442 is a gold-fringed table flag with smaller English lettering “HYUNDAI MERCHANT MARINE CO. LTD.” beneath the main script. Rosanoski describes the latter as Japanese-style, while allowing that the difference from H444’s Korean may instead be written versus printed styles. A partly visible full-sized fringed flag appears to be the same design, with a mirrored reverse.
A staff account says the flag and logo changed on 1 March 2006. The flag is a horizontal blue-orange-red tricolour with white divisions between the stripes. The logo consists of a yellow equilateral triangle partly covered by a green one, with the redesigned yellow area enlarged and a stated green-to-yellow ratio of 8.5:1. The funnel is described as white with the logo at its centre.
Rosanoski suggests that a working flag before 2006 would more likely omit corporate fringe and lettering, leaving the triangles on white, unless H346 was the earlier flag. This remains conjectural. The Cyber Customer Service Centre also displayed its own website flag.
Hyundai Merchant Marine, or HMM, began on 25 March 1976 as Asia Merchant Marine, known as the A Line. Rosanoski rejects the apparent September 1983 rename date in The Log in favour of the company website’s 9 August 1982. It also traded as Hyundai Line. Its car-carrier division became Eukor Car Carriers in a joint venture with Wallenius and Wilhelmsen. Services included the short-lived Angel Line with Sofrana-Unilines in 1986 and the New World Alliance with APL and MOL. It established a Cyber Customer Service Centre in 2001. Early ship names began with Asia or Korea.
South Korea, Seoul.
Keep the explicit scope label independent; no alias or company identity is inferred.