Hyundai Oilbank Opens Premium Self-Service Car Wash at Gas Stations for Nighttime Use

Use Without Waiting Time Through Advance Reservation and Payment

Hyundai Oilbank has opened a garage-type premium self-service car wash at Bukak Self Gas Station in Seongbuk-gu, Seoul. (Photo by Hyundai Oilbank)

[Asia Economy Reporter Moon Chaeseok] Hyundai Oilbank is entering the indoor self-car wash market by utilizing idle spaces at gas stations.

On the 27th, Hyundai Oilbank announced that it has opened a garage-type premium self-car wash at Bukak Self Gas Station in Seongbuk-gu, Seoul, in collaboration with 'Team Wiper,' the number one car wash reservation platform company in Korea.

Hyundai Oilbank noted that the culture of 'detailing,' where mainly young people wash and polish their cars themselves, is spreading. The car wash industry estimates the self-car wash market size to be about 360 billion KRW, with approximately 2 million users annually. Among self-car washes, demand for garage-type self-car washes, which can be used regardless of season or weather and without concern for onlookers, is increasing.

The indoor car wash business model developed by Hyundai Oilbank started from a change in perspective regarding gas station spaces. They focused on the fact that the automatic car wash, which occupies a large space in gas stations, operates only during the day, and that installing an automatic door at the exit of the tunnel-type automatic car wash can create an independent space.

Hyundai Oilbank's garage-type indoor self-car wash service can be used without waiting time through a reservation and payment system during nighttime hours after the automatic car wash operation ends. Inside the indoor car wash, facilities for self-car washing such as high-pressure washers, foam guns, air guns, lighting, and heating/cooling systems are equipped, allowing unlimited use within the reserved time.

Park Ki-chul, Head of Sales at Hyundai Oilbank, said, "We plan to expand the garage-type self-car wash business model mainly at directly operated gas stations nationwide, and once the business stabilizes, we will consider expanding the model to independently operated gas stations and spaces outside gas stations as a franchise business." He added, "We are considering ways to combine various new business models with existing gas station spaces based on the nation's largest directly operated gas station network."

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