This weekend Daegu hosted its annual motor show. Unfortunately, this seems to be somewhat of a well kept secret. I only found out about it last year after the event had taken place. This year I didnt hear till about two days before. However, it was a worthwhile and enjoyable event and I'm glad I did eventually get to see.

Daegu tourism announced the event maybe two days before on a list of upcoming events in June. There was a link to a site for the motor show. The site was entirely in Korean and I wasnt sure where to go. 

Then I asked a student to show me where the event was taking place. He found the page with the information but it had four locations shown. Also he could not find any event schedule.

A group of us headed over Saturday afternoon. The event was at Myeongdeok Station which is one stop south of Banwoldong the main interchange station of Daegu's two subway lines. At the station or at the exit there were no signs posted for where to go. 

The map I had printed from the webpage showed four locations. We went to the first one which was a university campus nearby. Nobody knew about any motor show and no events were taking place there. Then we figured this map with four locations must be visitor parking and I asked our Korean friend to read our map again.

The event was taking place back by the station and the four locations on the map were in fact places for visitors to park downtown. 

There was also a fashion show to take place, but this was not listed on the korean webpage, and only announced on facebook on friday evening. The show was in the morning from 10am-12pm and we would have missed it anyway trying to figure out where the venue was.

It was now after 5pm but the place was still busy. The venue was on Auto Parts Street which was closed to traffic and lined with a variety of cars parked down the length of the street. 

The first section was for racing cars. I was able to sit in one which was gutted on the inside and just a shell except for the drivers seat. Also when you sit you almost sink to the ground as the seat is so low so need help getting back up.

Next were the historic cars. There were cars from each decade from both the USA, UK, and Japan. There was an old british car my dad used to drive in the 70s complete with a UK road tax sticker displayed on the windscreen. 

There was a VW Beetle, a British Mini, and everyone's favourite a Lamborghini. Several of the models and costume characters from earlier were still walking by.
















They also had two promo buses, one for Samsung Galaxy, one for Nikon Cameras. Both were retrofitted inside as showrooms. 

It was quite a fun afternoon seeing so many colourful cars at a free outdoor event. Hopefully in future this will not be such a well kept secret so many more can enjoy this fun event.

This article was reprinted on the Daegu Blogsite
http://globaldaegu.blogspot.kr/2012/06/press-article-daegu-street-motor.html