An urban air mobility (UAM) aircraft developed with domestic technology will be publicly unveiled at Incheon National University on Wednesday.
The Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport will hold the "K-UAM Flight Showcase" at the INU Innovation Center at Incheon National University at 10 a.m. Wednesday, ahead of the opening of the 2026 Korea Drone·UAM Expo, which runs Wednesday through Friday at Songdo Convensia in Incheon. The event will mark the first public unveiling of a UAM aircraft developed by a domestic company.
The aircraft being developed by Sambo Motors Group will be among the highlights. The showcase is notable in that the craft will not only be revealed to the public for the first time but will also perform a flight demonstration.
The Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport said the showcase is a symbolic event to share the current state of K-UAM, which the government and private sector have been developing together, and to confirm its future potential. The event also demonstrates that Korean private companies are entering the future UAM industry at a time when leading nations such as the United States and the United Kingdom are actively advancing UAM aircraft development and commercialization, largely driven by private firms.
The government has been building the foundation for K-UAM commercialization — covering vertiports, flight operations systems, traffic management systems, communications and air traffic control, and the establishment of demonstration programs and regulatory frameworks — while private companies have continued developing aircraft based on their own technology.
The showcase will feature flight demonstrations and static displays of domestically developed UAM aircraft, along with various on-site programs bringing together developers and attendees.
Before the flight demonstration begins, the minister of Land, Infrastructure and Transport and the mayor of Incheon are scheduled to exchange views on the significance and future of the domestic UAM industry.
"Under the goal of commercializing UAM by 2028, we will lead the way with safety as the top priority, conducting thorough step-by-step verification from simple to complex operations," Minister Kim Yun-deok said. "I hope that our companies' first steps toward future mobility will develop into a mode of transportation that transforms the daily lives of the public in the not-too-distant future."
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