Quick Start’s Kia Georgia Training Center set ‘Global Benchmark’ for automotive training
On March 25, 2008, the 70,000-square-foot Kia Georgia Training Center became the first building in the Kia complex to officially open for business. Flashbulbs on cameras from around the world popped as Gov. Sonny Perdue and Euisun Chung, president of Kia Motors Corporation, cut the ribbon on this international icon of training excellence.
In 2006, Kia Motors chose West Point, Georgia, as the home of its first North American automobile assembly facility. In 2008, the first “Open for Business” sign came out — at the Kia Georgia Training Center.
Designed with the future in mind, the Kia Georgia Training Center has the capacity to present the full scope of advanced manufacturing training, and the flexibility to adapt to Kia’s future training needs. This sophisticated facility is the result of a partnership between Kia and Georgia Quick Start designed to ensure that Kia’s team members are ready to perform at their best in one of the most highly developed advanced manufacturing facilities in the world.
West Point, Georgia
Movement that inspires
This represents Kia’s aim to change the future for the better and not only be a respected company but a company that people feel inspired by and want to work for.
West Georgia Technical College
Quick Start’s Kia Georgia Training Center site in 2006.
True efficiency means that every detail contributes to the goal. Design of the structure was determined by its integration with the rolling topography.
The building design made the opening statement. Stylized elements from Eastern traditions and the Southern vernacular shaped space into place.
The grand opening of the KGTC in March of 2008.
Then-Georgia Gov. Sonny Perdue with Euisun Chung, then-president of Kia Motors Corporation, and currently Executive Chair of Hyundai Motor Group.
The harmony of form and function creates a mutability that allows easy adaptation to technological change.
Aerial view of Quick Start’s Kia Georgia Training Center in 2024.
