The ‘3 Seoul Mobility Show’, Korea’s largest mobility industry exhibition held at KINTEX Exhibition Hall 31 in Goyang-si, Gyeonggi-do from Friday, March 4st to Sunday, April 9th, ended successfully.
This year’s exhibition was attended by 2021 companies and institutions from 60 countries around the world, an increase of approximately 12% compared to 163, and the exhibition size more than doubled. There was significant growth in quantitative terms, with the cumulative number of visitors over a total of 2 days more than doubling to 51 (provisional figure).
Kang Nam-hoon, chairman of the Seoul Mobility Show organizing committee and president of the Korea Automobile Industry Association, said, “Our country’s mobility industry is still in desperate need of fostering and support, and the Seoul Mobility Show is no different. As the convergence of the mobility industry deepens, related exhibitions are also expected to grow, so the next exhibition can be reborn as a global mobility show that can show the diversity of future mobility by expanding the exhibition items and fields, including participating companies and institutions, products and technologies. “I will try my best to do so,” he said.
At this Seoul Mobility Show, 12 auto brands, including ▲Kia ▲Renault Korea Motors ▲Mercedes-Benz ▲Mini ▲BMW ▲Alpha Motor ▲Genesis ▲Chabot Motors (Ineos) ▲KG Mobility ▲Tesla ▲Porsche ▲Hyundai Motors, participated to represent the world. About 8 types of vehicles were exhibited, including 4 new cars, including 9 Premiers, 21 Asia Premieres, and 10 Korea Premieres, and 90 concept cars.
In addition, in the field of New Mobility, which showcases future mobility such as robotics, UAM, and PAV, 9 companies including ▲Ghostrobotics Technology ▲SK Telecom ▲VSpace participated, and the organizing committee decided to collaborate with the Aerospace Industry-Academia Convergence Institute (Director Chang-kyung Yoo). For the first time, a special air mobility pavilion was established.
In addition, Hyundai Motor Company set up a separate ‘Mobility House’, a robotics demonstration space, and exhibited ▲automatic charging robot for electric vehicles ▲delivery robot ▲personal mobility ▲MobED ▲SPOT, etc., while Tesla introduced a humanoid robot, ‘ Automakers also showed efforts to expand their exhibition items into the mobility field, such as by exhibiting ‘Teslabot’.
Following the 2021 Seoul Mobility Show, this year too, a wealth of side events were prepared for technological innovation in the mobility industry.
First, the Seoul Mobility Awards, now in its 2nd year, expanded its participation to three categories: mobility-related ▲hardware ▲software ▲tech. This year, the ‘Fixed 3D Lidar’ of SOS Lab Co., Ltd. (CEO Jeong Ji-seong) received the grand prize, the grand prize in the hardware category went to ‘a3z Robo Shuttle’ of Autonomous A2G Co., Ltd. (CEO Ji-hyung Han), and the grand prize in the mobility software category went to Co., Ltd. Wemit Mobility (CEO Kang Gwi-seon)’s ‘ROOUTY’ and ▲Bestella Lab (CEO Jeong Sang-soo)’s ‘Zero Cruising – V2I Navigation System for Smart City and Self-Driving Cars’ were selected as the grand prize winners in the mobility tech category, respectively.
In addition, the organizing committee will share trends in the mobility industry focusing on technology during the exhibition period and present a future blueprint: ▲Display-Mobility Day ▲Future Air Mobility Conference ▲Mobility Innovation, CES 2023 ▲ITS Business and Policy, and Future Vision Various conferences and forums, including seminars, were held and received great response from visitors.
In addition, the organizing committee introduced the Metaverse platform for the first time, which allows visitors to view the exhibition in a 3D virtual space through a dedicated app, enabling online viewing for visitors who cannot visit the exhibition hall, and an e-mobility (e-mobility) platform where visitors can experience real mobility. An e-Mobility (e-Mobility) test drive event and an outdoor test drive event where you could drive a branded car were also operated throughout the exhibition period.
The Seoul Mobility Show is hosted by the Seoul Mobility Show Organizing Committee, sponsored by the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy, Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport, Ministry of Environment, and Goyang Special City, and is Korea’s only international mobility show accredited by the International Association of Automotive Industries (OICA), first held in 1995. Starting with , it is held every other year in odd-numbered years.
Meanwhile, the 2023 Seoul Mobility Show was held in Halls 9 to 1 of KINTEX Exhibition Hall 1 in Goyang-si, Gyeonggi-do until Sunday the 5th. The total exhibition size was 53,541㎡, more than twice the size of the previous event (26,310㎡), and over 2 companies and organizations from 12 countries around the world participated to showcase various future mobility.