Korea Society of Automotive Engineers (KSAE), a nonprofit academic institution representing automotive engineering in Korea (president Hwang Seong-ho, Sungkyunkwan University professor), announced on the 18th that it will hold the "2025 Formula Student Korea" (2025 university student self-built car competition, Formula institutional sector) from Sept. 26 for three days at the Korea Automotive Research Institute E-Mobility Research Center in Yeonggwang County, Jeollanam-do.
The "2025 university student self-built car competition," jointly hosted by the Korea Society of Automotive Engineers and the Korea Automotive Research Institute, is a contest in which university students compete with cars they built themselves. It has been held since 2007 to provide students with opportunities to learn direct automotive design and manufacturing skills and to cultivate experts for the future automotive industry.
Following last month's "Baja" institutional sector, this Formula (formula) institutional sector will be held on paved roads, and about 2,000 university students from 42 universities nationwide are expected to participate. Through stages of acceleration, skid pad, autocross-gymkhana, and endurance racing, the team that earns the highest score will be awarded the KSAE Grand Prix Formula (Korea Society of Automotive Engineers Grand Prix Formula), and the winning team will receive the Minister of Trade, Industry and Energy Award.
In addition, a "technical institutional sector" that evaluates automotive technical ideas and design will also select outstanding teams through a rigorous review.
The university student self-built car competition is held in two institutional sectors: "Baja" and "Formula." In the recent "Baja" institutional sector, Korea University of Technology and Education's team "Ja.Yeon.InEV" won the grand prize.
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