Honda Korea Opens 'Honda Education Center' for Korea's Largest Motorcycle Safe Driving
Mar 04, 2025
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Honda is one of the global visions and aims to achieve zero traffic fatalities related to Honda cars and motorcycles worldwide by 2050. Since the establishment of the Safe Driving Supply Headquarters in Japan in 1970, it has been operating safe driving centers and various safe driving supply activities at bases around the world, including Asia, based on its global safety vision.
As part of this global vision, the Honda Education Center was launched as the 43rd global hub for Honda safe driving activities under the slogan "Safety For Everyone" on the road, including vehicle drivers and pedestrians. It is meaningful to prevent accidents caused by motorcycles and expand the base of mature safety awareness and motorcycle culture by providing domestic consumers with a correct, safe, and enjoyable way to ride motorcycles.
Honda Education Center has been certified as a certified academy facility that provides motorcycle safe driving education as the first imported car brand in Korea and the largest in Korea. It is located in Sujeong-ri, Bubal-eup, Icheon-si, Gyeonggi-do, and has access to arrive within an hour from Seoul and other metropolitan areas. The total area is about 2,400 pyeong, including about 1,200 pyeong of outdoor education sites and about 550 pyeong of two-story buildings, and it boasts the largest motorcycle safety driving education facility in Korea.
The first floor consists of a pleasant customer reception, convenience facilities such as customer lounges, fitting zones, and locker rooms, as well as a space to store educational motorcycles of more than 60 units from low to high exhaust. Trainees visiting the Honda Education Center can rent all safety gear of various sizes, including helmets, protectors, and boots, free of charge, and can comfortably wear cleanly managed safety gear in the fitting zone on the first floor. On the second floor, there is a shower room for customer convenience, and there are five expansive classrooms that provide theoretical training for trainees on various safety knowledge and educational content before the start of practical training.
Honda Education Center provides step-by-step systematic education based on the proven education curriculum of Global Honda under the guidance of four experienced Korean instructors who have completed and obtained relevant qualifications for Honda Safety Instructor Training in Japan.
Education consists of a total of five courses. The introductory course, the ▲ Beginner Scooter course, is suitable for customers who are not familiar with basic driving, and the ▲ Beginner Manual course provides basic training for manual motorcycle riding, such as vehicle inspection/riding posture/rotation/brake practice, for customers who are not familiar with starting, stopping and gear shifting.
The ▲ Town Rider course, an elementary and intermediate course, teaches customers who are proficient in starting, stopping, and gear shifting about basic riding techniques such as warm-up, slalom, and low-speed balance. The ▲ Tour Rider course and the ▲ Technical Rider course, which are intermediate and advanced courses, can be taken by customers who have completed the sub-course and provide training to deepen riding techniques and complete accurate and delicate riding for more active and skillful driving.
Honda Education Center is open five days a week from Wednesday to Sunday every week, and its operating hours are from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.Applications for safe driving training are available through a dedicated website, and the cost of training is the same at 270,000 won for the entire course. For the convenience of customers using public transportation, shuttle vehicles are also operated from Bubal Station on the Kyeonggang Line to Honda Education Center.
Honda Korea, meanwhile, established the Honda Training Center, which was located in Pyeongtaek, Gyeonggi-do, and integrated and relocated its existing Honda Training Center with new facilities. Honda Training Center will be operated in synergy with Honda Education Center for overwhelming customer satisfaction by conducting technical training, technology training, and service advisor training for Honda's official automobile and motorcycle service center technology and service advisor in Korea.
Honda Korea CEO Lee Ji-hong said, "Honda's sincerity in safety began with the basic idea of respecting human beings and three joys. In particular, the idea of respecting human beings can be said to be the origin of safe driving activities that focus only on people, from the development of safe products to delivering safety knowledge and how to ride correctly to customers." In addition, he said, "We will do our best to help Honda Korea contribute to the sustainable growth of the domestic motorcycle culture, aiming to realize zero traffic deaths worldwide through the Honda Education Center."
Editor Kim Tae-jin, tj.kim@carguy.kr
This article was translated by Naver AI translator.
