The event is to be held at KINTEX on the outskirts of Seoul on November 25
‘Seoul Motor Show’, the largest general automobile exhibition in Korea, is to be rebranded as the ‘Seoul Mobility Show’ in line with the trend of e-mobility and self-driving.
The Organizing Committee of Seoul Motor Show recently held a meeting at the Automobile Center in Seocho-gu, Seoul, and decided to change the name to Seoul Mobility Show.
The Organizing Committee that consists of the Korea Automobile Manufacturers Association (KAMA), the Korea Automobile Importers & Distributors Association (KAIDA), and the Korea Auto Industries Coop. Association (KAICA) has agreed to lend more weight to ‘Mobility’ in line with the trend of e-mobility and self-driving for carbon neutrality and in accordance with the expansion of urban air mobility (UAM), robots and other completed vehicle industries.
Internationale Automobil-Ausstellung (IAA), a German automobile event held in September, also changed the event name to ‘IAA Mobility 2021’ to focus on future transportation means.
The Committee is thus planning to set up the new exhibition contents, focusing on cutting-edge technologies and eco-friendly mobility including autonomous driving, IT-converged technology, ‘infortainment,’ EVs, hydrogen vehicles, etc., so as to clearly showcase the characteristics and identity of Seoul Mobility Show. Accordingly, the Committee plans to hold the Seoul Mobility Award, forums, seminars, mobility test drive events, etc., under the theme of mobility.
“We’d like to extend our thanks to those companies for participating in the event despite difficult situations arising from continued COVID-19, instable supply and demand of semiconductors used for vehicles around the world,” explained a spokesperson for the Committee, adding “We will do all we can to hold a successful Seoul Mobility Show representing a domestic mobility-specified technology exhibition ‒ as the automobile industry is focusing on self-driving, hydrogen vehicles and other future cars and new platform service providers, robots, UAM, and other new means of transportation are coming onto the market.”
Meanwhile, the Show is to be held at KINTEX in Goyang-si, Gyeonggi-do, South Korea for 11 days starting from Press Day on November 25 until December 5. Seoul Motor Show, which is the only international motor show officially recognized by International Organization of Automobile Manufacturers (OICA) in Korea, has been held biennially in every odd-numbered year since 1995.
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National University since 1995, into a specialized convention in Gwangju from 2015. The event is co-hosted by the Automobile Research Center in Chonnam National University, BK21+(National Research Foundation of Korea), University of Honam, University of Ulsan, Korea Automotive Technology Institute(KATECH), Gwangju Institute of Green-Car Advancement, Kimdaejung Convention Center, and Gwangju Convention & Visitor Bureau, and sponsored by the Gwangju Metropolitan City, Korea Tourism Organization(KTO), and the Korea Society of Automotive Engineers(KSAE).
This year, 8 electric automobile and environmental experts from the automobile research center in universities, research institutes, automobile manufacturers and automobile parts suppliers from eight countries including Korea, USA, Austria, Japan, China, Indonesia, Vietnam, and Italy will be invited to give lectures under the theme “Advanced Vehicles Technologies for the World without Fine Dust”. They will give presentation on the key technologies for EV and find dust as well as market status and propose future prospects.
A junior session is also prepared to present twelve oral-presentation and sixteen poster-presentation from researchers in industries and institutes, and graduate students who are the heroes of the future automobile industry. This conference will provide English for the professional.
“2019 ICAT is a platform that enables research on EV and environmental area of vehicles and allows industry experts to understand the development and flow of advanced technologies and to predict the future. In particular, Gwangju Metropolitan City has a plan to make the eco-friendly automobile factory for applying Gwangju-type of jobs. Critical tasks of this big project are given such as the local parts makers’ own development for its techniques, improving its researching skills, and globalization. We hope that it will bring more vitality to the eco-friendly automobile parts industries in Gwangju area by co-hosting the event with the International Green Car Korea.” explained chairman of Prof. Byungchul Choi, who is also director of the Automobile Research Center in Chonnam National University.
2019 ICAT is open to members of the public who are interested in the EV industry and environmental problems of automobile area can be accessed via the official web-site of ICAT: 
Gangwon-do plans to make this forum a sustainable and representative one, in which seeking ways in order to transform Gangwon-do into a hydrogenbased area could be fully discussable.
Moreover, a preliminary event on the theme of ‘Safe Hydrogen Society’ will be held on May 9 especially for the residents and students in Gangwon-do, together with additional events such as hydrogen industry public information, industrial tour, business agreement, and many more.
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In the last year of the exhibition, 396 companies, with 598 booths including overseas buyers’ booths, from 16 nations participated. The exhibition was visited by a total of 36, 168 visitors from 24 countries. Among them, 1,853 came from overseas. For overseas buyers, a total of 44 companies from 19 nations achieved successful business results, playing a leading role in making the exhibition a more productive venue than ever before.
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