The Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport said on the 5th that it signed a land-use memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Goyang Special City to commercialize urban air mobility (K-AUM), known as the "flying taxi."
Under the MOU, the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport (MOLIT) and Goyang City agreed to cooperate to create a K-AUM demonstration hub near KINTEX. MOLIT plans to integrate passenger handling and ground operations, the maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) environment, flight control, and facility management systems at the site to verify operating procedures and safety standards under conditions similar to actual commercial operations. The ministry plans to build a takeoff and landing site within the year and to complete permanent structures, including a passenger terminal and hangar, by next year.
The hub to be built at KINTEX will be the first case constructed reflecting the design standards for a vertiport (vertical takeoff and landing airfield). The KINTEX hub is expected to become the standard model for a Korean-style vertiport by applying not only physical facilities such as a takeoff and landing site and terminal but also systems to replicate an actual commercial operating environment.
Park Jun-hyeong, director general of the Mobility and Automobile Bureau at the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport (MOLIT), said, "We will establish an urban commercialization environment without disruption through phased infrastructure development."