The city of Goyang, a suburb of Seoul, is currently building a vertiport on an 18,000 square meter site near KINTEX, Goyang’s convention centre.
According to Korean news outlet Koreabizwire, Goyang is the only municipality in the Seoul metropolitan area included in the second phase of the K-UAM Grand Challenge demonstration project.
“This initiative, led by the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport, aims to verify aircraft safety and establish operational concepts and technical standards tailored to domestic conditions, with the goal of commercializing UAM by 2025. The ministry has designated Goyang as one of three major UAM hubs in the capital region, alongside Seoul’s Jamsil area and Gimpo International Airport….Once the vertiport is completed in June of next year, it is expected that passengers will be able to travel from KINTEX to Gimpo Airport in approximately 15 minutes using these “flying taxis.”
“The institute recommends that the city should “quickly develop UAM service models tailored to local characteristics, establish an integrated transportation system linked with trains, buses, and taxis, and accelerate the training of specialized personnel….“Meanwhile, the city is researching plans to renovate the Ilsan Dong-gu Office rooftop into a “smart plus building” equipped with a vertiport for disaster response and emergency patient transport.”
Urban Air Mobility News is indebted to M Usman Afzal, whose original Linkedin post ( https://www.linkedin.com/in/m-usman-afzal/) was the source for this article.
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(Image: KINTEX)