Training Focused on IONIQ 5, Tucson, and Accent
Hyundai Motor Company announced on July 7 that it conducted a volunteer service for maintenance technology talent donation at the Lao-Korea Institute for Skills Development located in Vientiane, Laos, from June 30 to July 4.
The volunteer group dispatched to Laos by Hyundai Motor Company consisted of a total of 14 members, including engineers from the High-Tech Center. A total of 61 participants completed the training, including instructors from the Lao-Korea Institute for Skills Development and maintenance technicians from Hyundai's Laos dealership.
Hyundai Motor Company divided the curriculum into three subjects: diesel engines, which are in high demand locally; new technologies such as pure electric vehicles and advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS); and diagnostic training. Both theoretical and practical training were provided. In particular, the IONIQ 5, Tucson, and Accent models currently sold in Laos were used as training materials to help trainees better understand and enhance the learning effect.
Hyundai Motor Company conducted a volunteer service for maintenance technology talent donation at the Korea-Laos Vocational Skills Development Center located in Vientiane, Laos, from the 30th of last month to the 4th of this month. Photo by Hyundai Motor Company
The Lao-Korea Institute for Skills Development, where the training was conducted, is an agency under the Ministry of Labor and Social Welfare of Laos. It offers various training programs with the goal of nurturing skilled personnel necessary for Laos's economic development, and was established in 2004 with support from KOICA.
Meanwhile, since 2015, Hyundai Motor Company has been consistently conducting overseas maintenance technology talent donation activities in developing countries across Asia, such as Cambodia, Vietnam, and the Philippines, in collaboration with the international relief and development NGO Plan Korea.
A Hyundai Motor Company official stated, "Through Hyundai's world-class maintenance technology talent donation, we expect to help resolve educational opportunity disparities and create jobs in developing countries," adding, "We will continue to steadily carry out maintenance technology talent donation activities, as we have been doing since 2015."
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