Seungmo Lim: “Car design must evoke human emotions”
By Car Design News2025-04-01T10:00:00
Seungmo Lim, head of Kia design China, on balancing AI with human creativity and ensuring brand differentiation
Kia has had a presence in China for a long time. Kia Future Design China, was established in 2012 in Yantai, where we also have a big R&D centre. It’s between Beijing and Shanghai on a peninsula extending towards Korea. So Yantai is very close to South Korea, just about an hour and a half by plane.
From Shanghai to Yantai is also similar. Our Shanghai Kia Future Design China studio was established in 2012, but moved to Xintiandi in 2021.