Museums in South Korea

The Gyeongju World Automobile Museum aims to “continuously collect, study, preserve historically significant automobiles and pass their achievements down to the next generation.”

The Hyundai-Kia R&D Museum opened in 2007 at the R&D Research Center in Namyang, Hwaseong. It preserves and collects discontinued models from Hyundai and Kia Motors, exhibiting 20 historically valuable vehicles. Photo: autoview

Inje Speedium Resort is Korea's first motor culture space, which includes a classic car museum.

The museum presents diverse cultural values from providing information on the past, present, and future of mobility to offering various mobility attractions and leisure programs. It also serves educational purpose by raising awareness on traffic and road safety, and promotes preservation and restoration of classic vehicles as cultural heritage. Since its opening in May 1998, the museum has led the nation’s mobility culture, as over 5.09 million people have visited the museum and more than 610,000 children have completed its traffic safety education courses

Ulsan is one of the major industrial cities in South Korea, best known as the home of Hyundai. Therefore it is no wonder the museum has an industrial hall with a few Hyundai vehicles.

The World Automobile Museum has arranged its cars according to their time period to help visitors understand the flow of Korean history, making it an ideal place of education for children. Kids can even try getting a "driver's license" ... complete with an (easy) test and a driving experience in tiny 2-seater electric cars.