Gimcheon City Attracts 'UniCamp' Camping Specialty Vehicle Manufacturing Plant... 15 Billion KRW Investment

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[Asia Economy Yeongnam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Dongwook Park] On the afternoon of the 5th, Gimcheon City signed a memorandum of understanding for investment to produce special vehicles for camping in the city hall conference room, attended by about 20 people including Mayor Kim Choong-seop, City Council Chairman Lee Woo-cheong, and Unicamp Co., Ltd. CEO Oh Wan-gon.

This is the result of Mayor Kim Choong-seop's visit on the 12th of last month to the headquarters of Unicamp Co., Ltd., located in Gimje, Jeonbuk, the number one domestic camping car company, as part of attracting related companies following the establishment of a tuning car performance and safety test center and an automobile service complex in the Gimcheon General Industrial Complex.

Through this investment agreement, Unicamp plans to invest a total of 15 billion KRW on about 8,000 pyeong of land in the Gimcheon General Industrial Complex (Phase 3) to produce special vehicles for camping and create more than 50 new jobs.

Unicamp, which produces camping cars and mobile office vehicles using small and medium-sized vans, showed rapid growth recently as 'car camping' has become a travel trend in line with the untact culture due to COVID-19, with sales of 13 billion KRW and a market share of 34% as of 2019.

Mayor Kim Choong-seop of Gimcheon said, "I hope that Unicamp, the top domestic company in the camping car sector, will grow into a global company in the Gimcheon General Industrial Complex, which has the optimal automobile tuning industry infrastructure," and added, "I hope the day will come soon when people camp using camping cars directly produced by Unicamp, which has settled in our city."

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