12 hands-on safety stations cover traffic, everyday hazards

Program expands to families; transparent umbrellas distributed

Children participate in a CPR safety education session at the Hyundai Mobis Comprehensive Safety Experience Land held in Gwangju over two days starting Friday. [Hyundai Mobis]
Children participate in a CPR safety education session at the Hyundai Mobis Comprehensive Safety Experience Land held in Gwangju over two days starting Friday. [Hyundai Mobis]

Hyundai Mobis announced Monday that about 7,000 children have participated this year in its traveling hands-on safety campaign, the Comprehensive Safety Experience Land.

The program is run in partnership with local education offices and related agencies at large venues across the country. It features 12 interactive stations covering road traffic safety, kick scooter rules, fire evacuation drills, first aid and hygiene education, giving children practical tools to prevent everyday accidents.

Following earlier stops in Ulsan and Daejeon in the first half of the year, Hyundai Mobis held the "2026 Transparent Umbrella Sharing and Comprehensive Safety Experience Land" event at the Kim Dae-jung Convention Center exhibition hall in Gwangju over two days starting Friday. About 3,000 children and family members attended.

This year, the program expanded beyond school-group visits to a family-oriented format open to all local residents. Officials from local governments, fire departments and police stations also took part, helping maintain order and promote a broader culture of safety.

Hyundai Mobis distributed transparent umbrellas to children at the event. The company has now handed out a cumulative total of about 1.6 million transparent umbrellas as part of its child traffic safety initiative.

Hyundai Mobis has run the transparent umbrella distribution program since 2010. The umbrellas are designed to keep children's sightlines clear while incorporating reflective materials that make them more visible to drivers.

Since 2024, the company has broadened the campaign's scope beyond traffic safety to promote safety awareness in everyday life more generally. The program visits communities where Hyundai Mobis plants and offices are located, with the aim of sharing hands-on safety education content — previously concentrated in the Greater Seoul area — with regional communities and fostering a safety culture for future generations.

The three events held this year in Ulsan, Daejeon and Gwangju drew a combined total of more than 7,000 participants. Over the past three years, more than 20,000 children have taken part in safety education sessions held across 11 regions nationwide.

"Safety is a core value of Hyundai Mobis's social contribution activities," a company official said. "Beyond developing technology to protect mobility users, we plan to continue our hands-on safety education programs so that all members of local communities can enjoy safe daily lives."

Hyundai Mobis also runs a junior engineering classroom program to nurture future engineering talent. The company continues to pursue a range of employee-led social contribution activities on themes including fire safety, ecological conservation and cultural heritage protection.


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