People | 2023.08.17 19:41
Shin Hyeon-dong, former head of the Central Research Institute of Hyundai Motor Company, who led the development of the first domestic car model ‘Pony’, died at his home in Munjeong-dong, Songpa-gu, Seoul at around 3:10 am on the 17th. He is 94 years old.
The deceased was born in Andong, Gyeongsangbuk-do in December 1929. After graduating from Daegu Agriculture and Forestry School and the Army Ordnance School, he worked as a professor in the Department of Weapons Engineering for the Army for about 10 years. He introduced automobile theory to Korea by translating automobile textbooks from the US Military Academy. He moved to Hyundai Motor Company in the late 1960s and then rose through the ranks, becoming an executive (technical director) in the early 1970s.
It was in 1973 that Hyundai Motor Company began developing domestic cars, and when the Park Chung-hee government at the time pushed for a plan to nurture the unique model automobile industry, it decided to produce its own automobiles, and the deceased was in charge of the project.
Shin Hyeon-dong, former head of Hyundai Motor’s central research institute. [사진=연합뉴스]
The deceased showed off a prototype at the Turin Motor Show in Italy in 1974, and led the launch of the Pony in January 1976.
In 1983, the deceased insisted on making an independent engine (alpha engine). In September of the same year, the deceased served as the head of the engine development room, which was created at the headquarters. He was also the head of the ‘Alpha Project’. After the completion of the Mabuk-ri Research Institute in November 1984, he served as the research director. The Alpha engine was completed in January 1991, two more years after the deceased retired from Hyundai Motor Company in 1989.
In February 1991, Chung Se-young, chairman of the Hyundai Motor Group at the time, gave a plaque of merit to the deceased who insisted on developing the Alpha engine.
After retiring from Hyundai Motor Company, the deceased also operated a company called ‘Yujin Electric’ that supplied various electrical wiring for Hyundai Avante until the early 2000s.
The bereaved family consists of three sons and one daughter with his wife Bae Soon-nam: Shin Young-cheol (chaired professor at Purdue University, USA), Shin Young-hye, Shin Gyeong-cheol (former Yujin Robot Chairman), Shin Gi-cheol (former Yujin Electric Field CEO), and daughters-in-law Kim Yoon-kyung and Hyun Eun-ja (professors of the Department of Children and Adolescents at Sungkyunkwan University). ·Yuk Sera, son-in-law Jang Wook, etc. Vinso is in room 35 of the funeral hall at Asan Medical Center in Seoul, the funeral is at 4:40 am on the 19th, and the place of burial is Eden Park.
2023-08-17 10:11:00
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