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Hyundai Motor Company Headquarters & offices · Seoul, South Korea
Hyundai Motor Company · Seoul, South Korea
A headquarters lobby rebuilt as an “Agora” across five floors — with a library, a 50-meter pool and robots that water the plants and deliver the coffee.
The renovated Yangjae headquarters, the benefits Hyundai lists for its people in Korea and 58 years of history — then the business. Every number from Hyundai's newsroom, careers site, the architect and its DART filings.
- ≈ 36,000 m²of shared space renovated, 2024–2026
- 50 mswimming pool under the lobby
- 15.8 yrsaverage tenure in Korea (2025)
- 72,598employees in Korea (2025)
Sources: Hyundai Motor Group newsroom (May 14–15, 2026) · STUDIOS Architecture project page · DART business report FY2025 · talent.hyundai.com
Companies / South Korea / Automobiles / Hyundai Motor Company
THE HEADQUARTERS · YANGJAE, SEOUL · RENOVATED 2026
A lobby turned into a public square, built for people and robots
Hyundai has run its headquarters from the Yangjae building in Seoul since December 2000. From May 2024 the Group rebuilt the shared floors, from the basement to the fourth floor, around the “Agora”, a stepped lounge modelled on the ancient Greek public square. STUDIOS Architecture removed the tall walls beside the atrium and raised the ceilings so people can see each other across floors. Around it: a café, 17 meeting rooms, a library curated by Japan's Culture Convenience Club, a grand hall, a rooftop garden and, downstairs, a dining street inspired by Paris's Marais, a 50-meter pool, a gym and an arcade. The renovated lobby opened in early March 2026.
- ≈ 36,000 m² (≈ 387,500 sq ft), 5 floors
- Design: STUDIOS Architecture
- Indoor landscape: Jung Young-sun (Seoahn)
- 17 meeting rooms
- 50 m swimming pool
- Robots for coffee, plants and security
The rebuilt Yangjae lobby
STUDIOS Architecture turned the lower floors of the Yangjae headquarters into a public “Agora” with cafés, a library, an auditorium and classic cars (2024–26).
Facts: Hyundai Motor Group newsroom, “Executive Chair Outlines Vision for Collaboration and Innovation at Transformed Seoul HQ” (May 14, 2026) and “Inside Hyundai Motor Group's Renovated HQ” (May 15, 2026) · hyundaimotorgroup.com story “From a lobby people pass through to a plaza where they stay” (May 21, 2026) · STUDIOS Architecture project page “Hyundai Headquarters”.
Yangjae, Ulsan and the future GBC
| Building | Address |
|---|---|
| Headquarters (Yangjae building) | 12 Heolleung-ro, Seocho-gu, Seoul |
| Ulsan Plant | 700 Yeompo-ro, Buk-gu, Ulsan |
| Former KEPCO site (future GBC) | 512 Yeongdong-daero, Gangnam-gu, Seoul |
Source: DART business report FY2025 (head office; KEPCO site) · hyundai.com/kr, head office and Ulsan plant pages · See them on the map ↓
Source: Hyundai Motor Group newsroom (May 14, 2026) · hyundaimotorgroup.com story (May 21, 2026) · hyundai.com/kr. STUDIOS Architecture's own page gives 40,000 m² for the five-level podium.
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Benefits (South Korea)
90 days for women and 10 days for men when a child is born.
Up to two years of parental leave per child.
Three days of leave a year for employees going through infertility treatment.
Three weeks of paid leave on promotion to senior employee.
Five summer days to use freely, plus up to 10 days of family-event leave.
Choose your own hours around the core time; 8 “H-Work Station” remote offices in the Seoul area.
Discounts on the price and repairs of a car bought in your own name, plus self-maintenance stations.
Long-term housing loans, and company housing or dormitories where needed.
Source: talent.hyundai.com, “Culture – Benefit” (Work, Refresh, Life, Family). Benefits for employees in Korea.
Why people stay: what Hyundai itself reports
The average length of service at Hyundai Motor Company in Korea at the end of 2025.
Employees who used the selective working-hours system in 2025.
Employees who used remote work, including working from home, in 2025.
Employees who took parental leave in 2025, 551 of them men — up from 639 in 2024.
About 12,000 self-study courses on the “Learning Lounge” platform, plus company-funded Learning Labs.
An in-house job posting system and overseas assignments open to all employees.
Source: DART business report FY2025 (tenure, flexible work, parental leave) · talent.hyundai.com (Career, Life)
Who works here
employees of Hyundai Motor Company in Korea
average tenure (men 16.2, women 11.3)
fathers took spouse childbirth leave in 2025
people work at the Ulsan plant
Source: DART business report FY2025, Section VIII (employees) · hyundai.com/kr, Ulsan plant page. Gender shares calculated by eciffo.
Office history: from the Ulsan plant to Yangjae — and next, the GBC
- 1967 Hyundai Motor Company is founded
Hyundai Motor Company was incorporated on December 29, 1967.
Source: DART business report FY2025 · hyundai.com history
No free-to-use photo found yet.Have one? We’d love to add it. - 1968 The Ulsan assembly plant
The Ulsan assembly plant was completed and mass production of the Cortina began.
Source: hyundai.com history, 1967–2000
Hyundai car factory, Ulsan, 2006 · User: Anonyme / CC BY 2.5 · Wikimedia Commons - 1975–76 Ulsan grows into a full car plant — and the Pony
The Ulsan integrated car plant was completed in 1975 to build the Pony, the first Korean passenger car, launched and first exported to Ecuador in 1976. Today the Ulsan plant covers about 5,000,000 m² and employs about 34,000 people.
Source: hyundai.com/kr history (1990–1967) · Ulsan plant page
No free-to-use photo found yet.Have one? We’d love to add it. - 2000 Headquarters moves to Yangjae
In December 2000 Hyundai and Kia moved their headquarters to the Yangjae building, at the entrance to the Gyeongbu Expressway in southern Seoul. Its address is 12 Heolleung-ro, Seocho-gu.
Source: hyundai.com/kr, head office page and history 2000 · DART business report FY2025
The Yangjae headquarters towers, 2010 · HappyMidnight / CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons - 2014 Land for a new Group headquarters
On September 26, 2014 a Hyundai Motor Group consortium including Hyundai Motor signed a contract with KEPCO to buy its former site at 512 Yeongdong-daero, Gangnam, to set up an integrated control tower for the Group.
Source: DART business report FY2025, major contracts
No free-to-use photo found yet.Have one? We’d love to add it. - 2016 The GBC plan
Hyundai listed the GBC (Global Business Complex) as a plan to build a sustainable landmark for Korea.
Source: hyundai.com/kr history, 2016
No free-to-use photo found yet.Have one? We’d love to add it. - 2024–26 Yangjae rebuilt around the Agora
Renovation of the Yangjae lobby began in May 2024 and the new space opened in early March 2026, after 1 year and 11 months. Executive Chair Euisun Chung held a company-wide town hall there on May 14, 2026.
Source: hyundaimotorgroup.com story (May 21, 2026) · Hyundai newsroom (May 14, 2026)
No free-to-use photo found yet.Have one? We’d love to add it. - 2032 Planned: a science museum in the GBC
Hyundai Motor Group and the Exploratorium plan an experiential science museum inside the forthcoming GBC in Seoul, set to open in 2032.
Source: Hyundai newsroom, “Hyundai Motor Group and Exploratorium Partner…” (2026)
No free-to-use photo found yet.Have one? We’d love to add it.
Map: how the headquarters moved
Hyundai's story starts at the Ulsan plant on Korea's southeast coast. Since 2000 the headquarters has been in Yangjae, southern Seoul; the Group's next home, the GBC, is planned about 6 km to the north on the former KEPCO site.
- 1 · 1968Ulsan Plant — 700 Yeompo-ro, Buk-gu, Ulsan — the first assembly plant, completed in 1968
- 2 · 2014Former KEPCO site (future GBC) — 512 Yeongdong-daero, Gangnam-gu, Seoul — bought by a Group consortium in 2014
- 3 · 2000 – todayYangjae headquarters — 12 Heolleung-ro, Seocho-gu, Seoul — headquarters since December 2000
Addresses: DART business report FY2025 · hyundai.com/kr head office and Ulsan plant pages · Locations: OpenStreetMap
What Hyundai Motor Company does
Hyundai Motor Company makes Hyundai and Genesis cars and SUVs, and is part of Hyundai Motor Group with Kia. It now describes itself as moving beyond carmaking to become a mobility solution provider, with robotics built into its own headquarters.
DART filings report a manufacturing (vehicles) business and a financial services business.
Where the money came from · vehicles sold, 2025
Source: Hyundai Motor 2025 Annual and Q4 Business Results (Jan 29, 2026)
Source: Hyundai Motor 2025 Annual and Q4 Business Results (Jan 29, 2026), consolidated, K-IFRS
Growth: revenue vs. people
₩96.8T → ₩186.3T
69,402 → 72,598
Calendar years. Revenue: consolidated (K-IFRS), from Hyundai's annual business results releases (2019 as restated in the 2020 release). Employees: Hyundai Motor Company in Korea only, from DART business reports FY2018–FY2025. Multiples calculated by eciffo.
Chief executives
President and CEO (representative director). Previously Hyundai's Global COO and head of North America (2019–2024).
Hyundai Motor Company was incorporated on December 29, 1967. Executive Chair: Euisun Chung (chairman since 2020).
Source: DART business report FY2025, Section VIII (directors) · hyundai.com history 2021–2025
Hear it from the CEO
Hyundai Motor Company: questions people ask
Where is Hyundai Motor Company's headquarters?
In the Yangjae building at 12 Heolleung-ro, Seocho-gu, Seoul, South Korea. Hyundai and Kia moved their headquarters there in December 2000.
Source: DART business report FY2025 · hyundai.com/kr head office page
Who designed the renovated Hyundai headquarters lobby?
STUDIOS Architecture designed the new shared spaces together with Hyundai Motor Group's in-house Space Design team. The indoor landscape was done with landscape architect Jung Young-sun (Seoahn), and the library was curated by Japan's Culture Convenience Club.
Source: Hyundai newsroom (May 14, 2026) · hyundaimotorgroup.com story (May 21, 2026) · STUDIOS Architecture
How big is the renovated space?
About 36,000 m² (≈ 387,500 sq ft) across five floors, from basement level 1 to the fourth floor — roughly five football fields. STUDIOS Architecture describes the five-level podium as 40,000 m².
Source: Hyundai newsroom (May 14, 2026) · STUDIOS Architecture project page
What is inside Hyundai's headquarters?
A stepped lounge called the Agora, a café, 17 meeting rooms with focus rooms and co-working lounges, a library, a language learning center, a grand hall and a rooftop garden on the fourth floor. Downstairs are a dining hall, a 50-meter swimming pool, a gym and an arcade.
Source: Hyundai newsroom (May 14, 2026)
Are there robots at Hyundai's headquarters?
Yes. DAL-e Gardener waters the lobby plants, DAL-e Delivery brings drinks from the café to employees on the first three floors using face recognition, and a Spot-based security robot patrols at night.
Source: Hyundai newsroom, “Inside Hyundai Motor Group's Renovated HQ” (May 15, 2026)
Can you visit Hyundai?
Hyundai's Korean website has a plant-tour reservation page, and the Ulsan plant lists a phone line for tour enquiries. The sources used here do not say the Yangjae headquarters is open to the public.
Source: hyundai.com/kr, plant tour and Ulsan plant pages
What benefits does Hyundai offer in Korea?
90 days of childbirth leave for women and 10 for men, up to two years of parental leave per child, three weeks of paid leave on promotion to senior employee, car and repair discounts, low-interest housing loans and on-site childcare centers.
Source: talent.hyundai.com, Benefit
Does Hyundai allow flexible or remote work?
Yes. Employees choose their hours around a 10am–4pm core time and can use 8 remote “H-Work Station” offices in the Seoul area or work from home. In 2025, 30,673 employees used selective hours and 18,168 used remote work.
Source: talent.hyundai.com · DART business report FY2025
How many people work at Hyundai Motor Company?
72,598 employees in Korea at the end of 2025, with an average tenure of 15.8 years. Their average annual pay was KRW 131 million.
Source: DART business report FY2025
Who is Hyundai's CEO?
José Muñoz, President and CEO since 2025. Euisun Chung is Executive Chair of Hyundai Motor Group.
Source: DART business report FY2025 · Hyundai newsroom
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