Highly evolved civilizations brought many essential changes in human life, Modern life's number 1 necessity, car is one of essential changes. Thanks to the innovation of car, we can now enjoy our lives without wasting much time on the roads and broaden our one-day life zone. But, ironically cars also become a big problem to the human beings on the earth; one of the problems air pollution. Fossil fuels used by car are to blame for causing air pollution. Our nature has been highly threatened by the skyrocketing number of cars. It is no wonder that people open their eyes to more eco-friendly wats to live life. Seoul Motors Show 2011 presented to us evolutionary cars nd parts of automobiles that are designed to save the earth without giving much pain to us. People of various age groups visited the exhibition and filled the KINTEX exhibition hall with great excitement.

Seoul Motor Show

 
    Seoul Motor Show 2011 lasted 11 days from March 31at to April 10th at KINTEX located in Goyang-si Gyeonggido. Not only car manias but also young children interested in cars came to see today's and future's cars displayed. Hyundai Motors and K1A Motors, the leader of the Korean automobile industry, Ssangyoung Motors, Renault Samsung to MercedesBenz, Germany's famous automobile company with deep-rooted tradition participated in Seoul Motor Show 2011. The visitors had a great time to see from gorgeous and luxurious cats to cute and highly efficient ones in the exhibition hall whose size was as big as 8 football stadium. In front of the exhibition hall, there was a place for visitors to actually ride on the eco-friendly car. Since 1995, this exhibition has been held biennially. A biannual motor show was held successfully with different theme. The theme of this year was 'Evolution, Green Revolution on Wheels' and there were many great eco-friendly cars fitting to the theme.

Going Green Car
    Eco-friendly cars, which world guide us to a better solution to human problems, were exhibited. Volt, an electric vehicle, by Chevrolet is now available on the market (It is available only in the US market but Korean market is still under consideration). It indicated that in the near future people would drive electric automobiles. Hyundai Motors presented Blue Squared, which is hydrogen fuel cell concept car. Not only Korean vehicle companies but also many other brands like BMW presented

 
electric concept cars with great design and specification, The concept cats were only for exhibition but automobile companies; presentation of those shows the development of technology. Also, trucks and buses with eco-friendly motors, especially hybrid diesel motors, alerted the advent of the period of environmentally friendly vehicle. Many visitors seemed astounded by the design of cars. Although, specification of cars were written beside the exhibited cars, as a layman it was hard to feel how much the technology has changed.

Long Way to go
    Readers might have read many articles applauding the Seoul Motor Show 2011. However, one thing you need to remember is that in order this show to become a globally famous one, its potential power needs to be demonstrated. For the companies which attended this show and for visitors who wanted to see more than what they can seem there has to be better services and cars with high quality and creativity. I hope the Seoul Motor Show will many people's expectations in the next exhibition in 2013.

 

By So Hae-jin CP Reporter
so-hj@cnu.ac.kr

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