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About KATRI

Purpose of Foundation and History

  • To reduce social loss
    caused by traffic accidents
  • To protect the rights of
    citizens with customer protection
  • To support technical
    information of the domestic
    automobile related industry
  • To support the government’s
    automobile related policies and to
    provide technical support
2019
  • 2019. 01. Designated as an affiliated Korea Transportation Safety Authority
  • 2019. 01. Exchange and refund arbitration enforcement
  • 2019. 03. Designated as a tower crane parts certification agency
2018
  • 2018. 02. Opened Geneva overseas office
  • 2018. 05. Completed construction equipment testing center
  • 2018. 12. Ceremony for completion of autonomous driving test city (K-City)
2017
  • 2017. 02. Secured China’s winter car testing center
  • 2017. 04. Opened self-certification support center for specialty vehicles
  • 2017. 05. Held car safety global conference to celebrate 30th anniversary Newly created autonomous driving area for the international university students creative car competition
2016
  • 2016. 02. Implemented approval task for provisional license of autonomous vehicles
  • 2016. 10. Completed tire assessment testing center and construction equipment manufacturing defect testing center
2015
  • 2015. 05. Held technical demonstration of autonomous vehicle
  • 2015. 10. Opened car safety research support center
2013
  • 2013. 05. Held the 23rd International Conference of Enhanced Safety Vehicles
  • 2013. 12. Completed up-to-date road for running tests
2011
  • 2011. 12. Changed name to Korea Automobile Testing & Research Institute
2010
  • 2010. 05. Held the 1st Green Safety Creative Car Competition Designated as exclusive institute in charge of standardization of intelligent traffic system (Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, and Transport) Completed construction equipment testing center
  • 2010. 04. Completed up-to-date future car testing center
2008
  • 2008. 12. Designated as certification institute of equipment of electronic toll collection system (Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, and Transport)
  • 2008. 05. Began construction of up-to-date future type car safety testing center
  • 2008. 01. Implemented type approval of construction equipment and verification inspection
2007
  • 2007. 01. Designated as safety testing institute for road safety facility - (Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, and Transport)
2006
  • 2006. 04. Changed name to Automobile Safety Research Institute
2005
  • 2005. 09. Held Korea/USA car cooperation meeting
  • 2005. 07. Completed engineering work of safety testing center for road safety facility
  • 2005. 02. Designated as performance testing institute for reduction device of car emission gas (Ministry of Environment)
2003
  • 2003. 04. Designated as testing institute for car noise certification (Ministry of Environment)
  • 2003. 04. Designated as safety testing institute for road safety facility - Crash barrier (for road side, for median strip, for bridge)
  • 2003. 01. Designated as safety test agent (Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, and Transport) - Manufacturing defect investigation, safety assessment and technical review
2002
  • 2002. 12. Completed 1st stage construction of driving test center
  • 2002. 05. Designated as testing institute for car emission gas certification (Ministry of Environment)
  • 2002. 04. Implemented car manufacturing defect investigation
2000
  • 2000. 12. Designated as testing institute for road safety facility - Four items such as shock absorber
1999
  • 1999. 10. Committed to conduct type registration work for two-wheeled motor vehicles (Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, and Transport)
1998
  • 1998. 01. Committed to conduct type registration work for cars (Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, and Transport)
1997
  • 1997. 09. Began construction of 1st stage construction of driving test center
  • 1997. 08. Designated as testing institute for car particulate filters (Ministry of Environment)
1996
  • 1996. 11. Completed seven internal test and research centers
1994
  • 1994. 01. Implemented extended car safety test (6→38 items)
1991
  • 1991. 03.. Began construction of internal test and research facility
1987
  • 1987. 09. Designated as car safety testing institute (Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, and Transport)
  • 1987. 05. Founded research institute of testing car safety