Hyundai Motor to build academic center in Vietnam National University

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Hyundai Motor to build academic center in Vietnam National University

Published: 25 Jun. 2023, 16:46 Updated: 25 Jun. 2023, 17:55

Hyundai Motor Group Executive Chair Euisun Chung, left, and Vietnam National University President Le Quan pose for the photo after a meeting in Hanoi on Friday to discuss ways to nurture Vietnamese talent. [HYUNDAI MOTOR]

Hyundai Motor will build an academic center at Vietnam National University (VNU) in Hanoi to nurture Vietnamese talent, according to Hyundai Motor Group Executive Chair Euisun Chung.

Chung met with the university president Le Quan on Friday to promote an academic partnership with the university. Chung was visiting Vietnam as part of President Yoon Suk Yeol’s 205-member delegation which was in the country to bolster bilateral relations.

“We hope to foster future talent with VNU in the automobile industry,” said Chung. “We believe that not only Hyundai Motor but various domestic carmakers will recruit prestigious talent from Vietnam and ultimately play a critical role in strengthening of global competitiveness in the Vietnamese automobile industry.”

The center will provide good opportunities for students as the carmaker recruits renowned scholars from overseas as lecturers, according to Chung.

“VNU has a mission to attract more international students, and also to send our students overseas,” VNU's president said. “It will be a huge help to our university if such scholars can lecture the students through Hyundai Motor.”

VNU is one of Vietnam’s two national universities that were included in the QS Global Ranking of Top 150 universities under 50 years old in 2021 and are forming active partnerships with Korean companies and universities.

Hyundai Motor sold 22,903 vehicles from the beginning of this year until May in the Vietnamese market and holds the No. 1 title in sales among global carmakers. The company aims to increase its influence in the market with the completion of another manufacturing plant in Ninh Binh last year, increasing the production capacity of vehicles to over 100,000 per year.

BY LEE JAE-LIM [lee.jaelim@joongang.co.kr]