The teens from the Korean-Nigeria youth camp were hosted by Kia Nigeria, the top Korean automaker in Nigeria, in its cutting-edge, multi-billion Naira assembly factory in Isolo, Lagos.
Teenage students from Nigeria’s Hendon College in Abuja were given an exclusive tour of the assembly line and got to see what makes Kia different from other automakers.
The students appreciated the excellent learning opportunity the tour provided them, as it allowed them to observe the assembling process and see how the auto engineers roll out top-of-the-segment made in Nigeria Kia models that are built to the exact standard of the brand’s global quality. The facility has the capacity to assemble 27,000 vehicles annually.
The Korea-Nigeria Youth Camp is a program sponsored by the Korea-Africa Foundation in collaboration with the Korean Cultural Centre Nigeria and geared towards giving young Nigerian students an experience of Korean cultural and entrepreneurship activities in Nigeria, as well as fostering friendly relations between Korea and Nigeria.
One of the activities planned for this year’s camp is a visit to the Kia factory. As part of the events of the 2022 Korea-Nigeria Youth Camp, the secondary school students traveled to the assembly plant with two of their professors and four members of the Korean embassy staff.
During the visit, the students were taken through the facility’s test track to get a feel for the dependability, powerful performance, and comfortable driving experience of locally made Kia vehicles. The children saw firsthand how the facility conducts its end-to-end assembly process in addition to observing workers collaborate to produce automobiles on the assembly line.
“Experiencing the process that surrounds the assembling of the cars was really interesting,” commented Oluwafunmilayo Daniel, one of the teenage students from Hendon College on a tour of the Kia plant.
“I had never been in an automotive plant before so I enjoyed seeing how the assembly line works and watching all the car bodies and parts move overhead from one area to the next until you’ve ended up with a full-blown car.
It was easy for me to identify all the different steps of production as they were happening on the assembly line.”
The youth camp program, in tandem with Kia’s corporate socially responsive human development activities for the teeming youth, aims to foster global leaders by training young, vibrant Nigerians with simulative education tools. The camp will guide participants to apply these skill sets to build a better country.
The students’ tour is one event choice that aligns with Kia Nigeria’s objective.
Speaking at the tour, Olawale Jimoh, Marketing Manager, Kia Nigeria, expressed the company’s excitement to offer secondary school teenage students an inside look at the process of automotive engineering as well as enhance students’ classroom learning with opportunities to observe engineering functions in practice.
“The Kia plant has become a force for economic development, creating well-paying jobs, and contributing to the diversification of the nation’s economy.
As a brand, we’re proud that we can showcase this development to the young generations and help reinforce their hope in the belief that the country will be an industrial hub in no distant future.”
Destiny Eseaga 
Staff Writer