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No. 15 (2021.03.31.)

Smart City Issue

Create a smart city in the middle of the desert Korea changed the map of Dubai!

December 2021.03.30, XNUMX / MOLIT

  Build a smart city in the desert. Is this possible? There is nothing impossible for domestic construction companies that they can make water without water!
Using seawater desalination technology that draws water from the sea, domestic construction companies are constructing infrastructure such as buildings, water supply and sewage facilities, and bridges in the Middle East. 
  The construction of a new city designed by the Kuwaiti government at the urban level is supported by the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, and Transport of Korea, and is planned by the Korea Land and Housing Corporation. This new city is being built as Kuwait's first eco-friendly smart city, and Solar Farm and Smart Farm will be built on the R&D site.
  The Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, and Transport selected 23 cities nationwide as targets for the smart challenge solution expansion project to spread and distribute smart city solutions not only overseas but also domestically. A total of 7 smart city solutions, including smart poles, smart bus stops, smart crosswalks, and electrical safety monitoring, will be distributed to the selected cities. Each project will be provided as a new type of smart city service through demonstration projects in some areas designated as smart regulatory innovation districts.. This Korean smart city has been rumored, and Korean smart cities are being exported all over the world. 
Smart City Policy Project
Selected in 6 regions for the main business of Smart Challenge

December 2021.03.18, XNUMX / MOLIT
 
  The Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, and Transport announced that, through the evaluation of the ``Smart Challenge Main Project'' in 2021, 1 cities with excellent performance among 11 local governments that performed preliminary projects for one year were finally selected as target sites for the project.  
<Smart City Challenge>
①(Busan City) barrier-free traffic environment
②(Jeju Island) Smart Hub
③(Gangneung City) Small and medium-sized MaaS

<Smart Town Challenge>

① (Gwangyang City) Creation of a smart eco-town for resource circulation
②(Seosan City) Industrial Complex-Village Smart Safety Model ③(Wonju City) University-Local Community Traffic·Security Service
  The City Challenge is a project that implements a comprehensive solution for smartization across the city based on the ideas of private companies, and supports a project cost of 215 billion won per city. After carrying out a preliminary project for establishing a plan for a year and demonstrating a solution (1 billion won/site), if selected as the main project, 15 billion won (2% local cost) will be supported for two years to promote the expansion project.
Town Challenge is worth 1 billion won per city when it is selected as the main project after a one-year plan establishment period (government expenditure of 3 million won/location) to derive local community problems and seek solutions through a living lab in which citizens participate. 40% matching) for one year.

Campus Challenge8 universities, Town Challenge4 cities Business selection

December 2021.03.30, XNUMX / MOLIT
 
  The Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, and Transport is the 2021 ``Smart Challenge'' project to innovatively solve urban problems, in the field of campus challenges for universities, to discover and demonstrate smart services suitable for 8 universities and small and medium-sized cities. Four cities were finally selected in the Town Challenge area.

<Campus Challenge>

Hanshin University, Anyang University, Yonsei University, Korea National University of Transportation,
Keimyung University, Sungshin Women's University, Dong-A University, Gongju University

<Town Challenge>

Gimcheon-si, Gyeongbuk, Gwacheon-si, Gyeonggi-do,
Yangyang-gun, Gangwon-do, Osan-si, Gyeonggi-do
  The Campus Challenge is a smart solution demonstration project that connects to commercialization, such as starting up a sprout company, and experimenting with innovative ideas in the campus, nearby shopping malls, and downtown areas through the participation of companies and local governments. Promote. Town Challenge is a project that receives and proceeds with local-specific smart solutions such as transportation and environment led by residents and regions through the operation of citizen-participating living labs, and 11 billion won (15% local cost) is invested per city.
Smart City Special
[Smart City Global Journal 2021] SMART CITY TOP Agenda
MOLITsoilTransportation Science and Technology Promotion Agency

  A smart city global expert journal containing the thoughts of smart city experts from around the world has been published. Eleven domestic and foreign experts answered the question about'the role of smart cities in the future society'. Let's hear the direction of a sustainable future city from experts in various fields. In particular, it contains suggestions on the role of smart cities in daily life that will change after Corona 11 and the resulting changes and visions for cities.
“Digital Twin” to cope with infectious diseases
December 2021.03.30, XNUMX / MOLIT

Smart City Policy Trend

NAACC promotes the application of digital reproduction technology to urban planning

2021.03.28. /NAACC

 The National Agency for Administrative City Construction and the Korea Land and Housing Corporation announced that they would complete the establishment of the digital reproduction system (phase 1) and use it for the establishment of urban planning for a multifunctional administrative city. Digital reproduction is a technology that implements a city similar to the real one in a virtual space and minimizes trial and error in policy making by simulating all processes from city planning to construction and operation. NAACC and LH have been promoting the development of a digital reproduction system that can be used for the establishment of urban planning for the 5th and 6th living zones, which are undeveloped areas of Happy City, since 20. The digital reproduction system developed this time has the function of systematically verifying various factors such as building arrangement, landscape analysis, sunlight right analysis, site-to-building ratio, floor area ratio, and floor height when establishing urban planning.

Sejong City, head-to-head for electric kickboard activation and safety measures

 2021.03.14. / Sejong City


 Sejong Special Self-Governing City will join hands with related organizations and companies to promote the use of personal mobility devices (PMs) called'electric kickboards' and set out safety measures. Electric kickboards are rapidly increasing in use as a personal means of transportation due to the corona 19 effect, while problems such as reckless parking and stopping, accidents due to inexperienced driving, boarding for two, and driving under the influence of alcohol are also causing problems. In particular, the current electric kickboard related laws have not been enacted, and as the competition is overheated due to the pursuit of business feasibility of shared electric kickboard companies, it is urgent to prepare citizen safety devices for electric kickboards. Accordingly, on the 2th, the city signed a'Smart Demonstration Project Linkage Agreement' with Korea Transportation Safety Authority, Road Traffic Authority, and Mass Asia Co., Ltd. to seek ways to promote safety and activation of electric scooters specialized in Sejong City. 

Seoul completes the first construction of 26'smart poles'

2021.03.10. / Seoul City

 The Seoul Metropolitan Government has built 6'smart poles' in six locations, including Seoul Plaza, Sungnyemun, and Cheonggyecheon. It is the core infrastructure of a smart city that integrates road facilities such as streetlights and traffic lights that are complexly installed all over the road, and combines ICT technologies such as public Wi-Fi and intelligent CCTV. These 26 smart poles were completed for the first time by the Seoul Metropolitan Government. Based on these cases, the city has prepared 26'smart pole standard models' and construction and operation guidelines to be applied to smart poles in the future. It can be customized according to various urban environments and road conditions. The city will expand the installation area to Guro-gu and Dongjak-gu this year, and at the end of the year, promote a pilot project to enhance the functions of smart poles.

Chungbuk Province, Introduction of smart bus stop

 2021.03.04. / Chung-cheong bukdo


 Chungcheongbuk-do was selected as the “Chungju City Smart Bus Station Installation Project” for the 2021 smart city solution expansion contest conducted by the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, and Transport, and received government funding of 10 billion won. The “Smart City Solution Spreading Competition” is a project for local governments to spread and distribute excellent smart city solutions with proven effectiveness to solve urban problems. The smart bus stop installation project selected this time is the use of cutting-edge technology in 10 urban areas and 10 places with a large population outside the city, taking into account the socially disadvantaged and the extreme climate such as heat waves, cold weather, and fine dust. It is a business to install a bus stop.

Smart City News
"2021 K-City Network” International Competition Announcement
 
  The Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, and Transport is promoting the K-City Network global cooperation program to discover intergovernmental (G2G) smart city cooperation projects and to support Korean companies' overseas expansion.  
Smart City Literature
A Study on the Development Direction of Smart City in Gangwon-do

Gwangmin Ham, Jonghyun Ryu

Journal of the Environmental Sciences Vol.30, No.1, pp.11-17(2021)
Singapore Smart Nation Analysis and Implications: Focusing on the practical means of smart city initiatives

Myunghee Kim
Convergence Information Journal Vol.11, No.1, pp.1-11(2021)
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