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No. 37 (2023.4.5)
Smart City Issue

Participation in high-level talks to rebuild transport infrastructure in Ukraine

December 2023.03.27, XNUMX / MOLIT

 

The Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, and Transport (Minister Won Hee-ryong) announced that Lee Seong-hae, chairman of the Metropolitan Transport Committee, will attend a high-level meeting to discuss plans for rebuilding and supplying Ukraine's transport infrastructure for two days from March 3.

 

Minister Won Hee-ryong, “Seeking ways to cooperate in urban development between Korea and Oman”

December 2023.03.28, XNUMX / MOLIT

 

 Minister of Land, Infrastructure, and Transport Won Hee-ryong met Oman Housing and Urban Planning Minister Khalfan Al-Sueili, who is visiting Korea, at the Land Development Exhibition Hall on March 3 (Tue) at 28:5 pm to discuss ways to cooperate in the field of urban policy between the two countries.

 

Smart City Policy Project

Create an economic base and create jobs by introducing transportation, new industries, business, and residential functions in a complex way

December 2023.03.17, XNUMX / MOLIT

 The Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, and Transport (Minister Won Hee-ryong) is the first urban regeneration project of this year, which creates economic bases such as idle facility sites in large cities and regional hub cities, as well as 'Urban Regeneration Innovation Zones (4 locations)' and living in small residential areas. It announced that it plans to select a total of 10 places as new projects in the first half of the year, including the 'Residential Environment Improvement Project (hereafter, Saving Our Neighborhood, 14 places)' to supply close-fitting public facilities.

Discuss future innovation strategies in the field of spatial information

December 2023.03.31, XNUMX / MOLIT

The Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, and Transport (Minister Won Hee-ryong) announced that on March 3 at 31:2 pm, the Seoul Regional Headquarters of the Korea Land and Geospatial Information Corporation will hold the [Spatial Information Future Innovation Forum] involving about 20 industry, academia, research and government experts to discuss innovation strategies in the field of spatial information, which is the foundation of future industries such as autonomous vehicles and UAM.

Smart City Policy Trend

Four Japanese ICT companies set out to benchmark the smart city of Bucheon

2023.03.21. / Bucheon City

Four Japanese information and communication technology (ICT) companies visited Bucheon on the 4th to benchmark Korea's smart city business.

 This visit was made at the request of Japanese companies who respectively visited the Bucheon Smart City Exhibition Hall prepared at the Barcelona Smart City Expo World Congress (SCEWC) and the World Smart City Expo (WSCE) last year. They requested exchanges with the city of Bucheon to enhance their understanding of the smart city project.

 

Futuristic public transportation reaches all over the world
2023.03.15. / Sejong Special Self-Governing City

On the 14th (local time), the Sejong Metropolitan Autonomous City (Mayor Choi Min-ho) held the Transportation Innovation Forum jointly held by the World Bank and the World Resources Institute, and introduced Sejong City’s DRT/Demand Responsive Transport (DRT‧Demand Responsive Transport) such as Shucle, Duruta, and Nuri. The introduction of Cole received a great response.

Prior to the debate, Minho Choi, Mayor of Sejong, had a meeting with Charles Allen, head of the Transportation and Environment Committee of the Washington DC City Council, listened to the background of the Washington DC Bus Fare Free Act, and discussed closely about ways to cooperate between the two cities.

 

Gwangju City Reacquired World Health Organization Aging-Friendly City Certification

2023.03.06. / Gwangju

On the 6th, Gwangju Metropolitan City (Mayor Kang Ki-jeong) received certification from the World Health Organization (WHO) to rejoin as an 'age-friendly city'.

In order to actively cope with the problem of rapid population aging, Gwangju City started enacting the 'Ordinance on the Creation of an Aging-Friendly City' in 2019, and after collecting opinions such as expert advisory meetings, collaboration meetings with related organizations, and the Aging-Friendly City Creation Committee, the first phase in 2020 Established a 1-year (3-2020) master plan for creating an age-friendly city and joined the World Health Organization (WHO) age-friendly city network for the first time

'Changing urban policy for future generations' Focusing on living economy area 'Promoting Gyeongnam-type urban policy master plan'

2023.03.25. / Gyeongsangnam-do

As a 20-year mid-to-long-term plan to meet the needs of the times and social and economic changes such as widening the living area, population decline, and low growth, Gyeongnam-do launched the 'Gyeongnam-type Urban Policy Master Plan Establishment' service for the entire area of ​​Gyeongnam-do.

This service, which is promoted by investing 20 billion won in provincial budget, is the top-level spatial plan in the city/county planning system established in a metropolitan province for the first time in the country. It is a comprehensive plan.

Reinforcing the nation's first 'Sejong City-firefighting connection' city safety net

2023.03.01. / Sejong Special Self-Governing City
 Sejong Special Self-Governing City (Mayor Choi Min-ho) will operate the 'Integrated Trade Center (platform)' that builds and supports an intelligent (smart) city safety net and the 'Direct Link between the National Fire Agency multimedia 119 reporting system' from this month for the first time in the country.

Establishment of 『Spatial Crowd Density Analysis System』 in connection with Jeju-type integrated transportation platform

2023.03.27. / Jeju Special Self-Governing Province

 The Jeju Special Self-Governing Provincial Police Corps (Chief Koh Chang-kyung), following the Itaewon disaster that occurred last year, prepared for crowd accidents around Jeju City Hall, where there is a lot of floating population, by using Closed Circuit Television (CCTV) for traffic control. will be built for the first time in the province.

Smart City Special

2020-2023 Daejeon Smart City Challenge

2023.03.16. / Smart City Daejeon

 Introducing the Daejeon Smart City Challenge project.

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Smart City News
2023 World IT Show
2023.4.19-4.21. /COEX

✔ 2023 World IT Show

- schedule : 2023.4.19-4.21.
- Place : COEX Hall A, B, C 
– Description: World IT Show is the representative ICT exhibition in Korea that leads the next-generation high-tech industry. It is an international exhibition that contributes to the national sustainable growth engine by vitalizing ICT R&D and strives to expand the business of participating companies.

 ※ Photo source: world IT show 2023

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