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No. 46 (2024.1.4)
Smart City Issue

Our neighborhood is smart with drone delivery and safe CCTV, ‘certified’ as a smart city and urban service.

2023.12.21. / Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, and Transport
Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, and Transport Seongnam City, Ulsan Metropolitan City(metropolitan city), Daegu Suseong-guㆍSeoul Gwanak-guㆍSeoul Songpa-guㆍSeoul Jongno-gu(Small and medium-sized cities) were newly certified as smart cities in 6.

Establishment of 1 smart + buildings with free access to smart technology and mobility

2023.12.19. / Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, and Transport
Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, and TransportOn Tuesday, December 19th, through architectural convergence innovation in the era of the 4th Industrial Revolution, Realizing smart happiness for the people과 Securing national growth enginesAs an innovation policy in the space field for ‘smart+Building Revitalization Roadmap'second Announcementdo.
Smart City Policy Project

Searching for innovative smart city technologies needed for national pilot smart city

2023.12.13. / Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, and Transport
soupMinistry of Transport와 Korea Agency for Infrastructure Technology Advancement (KAIA)is a program that discovers innovative technologies and services that can be introduced into national pilot smart cities and supports verification by companies.Smart city innovation서비스 Model Verification·diffusioncollusion를 12월 14(neck)It will be implemented from

23 new urban regeneration projects selected in the second half of 20

2023.12.15 / Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, and Transport
Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, and Transport My33차 Through deliberation by the Urban Regeneration Special Committee (December 12.8-14, written) 23Urban regeneration project in the second half of the yearof selectionsaid it did.
Smart City Policy Trend

To respond to the climate crisis, join forces with local governments around the world

2023.12.02. / Chungcheongnam-do 
ChungnamGovernor Kim Tae-heum, who is visiting Dubai, United Arab Emirates (UAE) to share the province's leading policy for achieving carbon neutrality with the world and expand international cooperation, attended the opening ceremony of the Local Government Climate Action Summit held at Dubai Expo City Blue Zone on the 1st (local time). attended.

Gwangju City makes strides in commercializing unmanned autonomous vehicles

2023.12.04 / Gwangju Metropolitan City
Gwangju Metropolitan City (Mayor Kang Ki-jeong) announced on the 1th that the Ministry of SMEs and Startups approved a temporary permit for the demonstration operation of an unmanned street sweeper in Uchi Park as of December 2, extending the project period by two years.

Gyeongnam Province, full-fledged operation of medical situation room without emergency patients

2023.12.06 / Gyeongsangnam-do  
Gyeongnam Province (Governor Park Wan-soo) held a signboard opening ceremony for the emergency medical situation room, which will become the control tower for emergency medical services in Gyeongnam Province, on the 6th and announced that it would begin full-scale operation for the first time in the country.

Gyeongbuk Province, building toward a greater future through digital transformation

2023.12.18. / Gyeongsangbuk-do  
Gyeongsangbuk-do held a launch ceremony for the ‘Gyeongsangbuk-do Digital Transformation Committee’ at Hwabaekdang in the provincial office on December 15 and announced the ‘Gyeongsangbuk-do Digital Transformation Basic Plan’.

Ulsan City obtains ‘National Intelligent City (Smart City) Certification’

2023.12.21 / Ulsan Metropolitan City 
Ulsan City is building and operating the 'Intelligent City (Smart City) Integrated Operation Center', which integrates the Intelligent City (Smart City) Situation Room, Disaster and Safety Alert Situation Room, and 119 Comprehensive Situation Room, and is integrated into various emergency situations such as disaster, fire, safety, and crime prevention. It was assessed that it had the necessary infrastructure to respond.

Seongnam City Obtains MOLIT Smart City Certification

2023.12.22 / Seongnam City 
Seongnam City received high scores in all three evaluation criteria: innovation, governance/system, and service technology/infrastructure. In terms of innovation, the number of venture companies and living lab operations were evaluated well, and in terms of governance and systems, the signing of smart city MOUs with various organizations was evaluated well.

Bucheon City acquires ‘2023 Smart City Re-certification’ hosted by MOLIT 

2023.12.29 / Bucheon City 
Bucheon City participated in the Smart City Certification System, which will be implemented for the first time in 2021, and obtained certification as a smart city representative. Thanks to the extensive project performance over the next two years, we were able to obtain smart city certification (level 2) by 2025.

Participating in 2024 CES… Promote startup products, technologies and smart cities around the world

2023.12.26 / Incheon Metropolitan City
Incheon Free Economic Zone Authority (hereinafter referred to as 'Incheon Free Economic Zone Authority') will run an exclusive promotional center to promote the products and technologies of companies supported by Incheon Startup Park and Incheon Free Economic Zone (IFEZ) at 'CES', the world's largest information technology (IT) exhibition, next year. Smart city promotion begins in earnest.

Jeonnam Province builds smart technology linked to urban regeneration project

2024.01.01 / Jeollanam-do
South Jeolla Province announced that Gangjin-gun and Yeongam-gun were selected for the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, and Transport's '2024 Life-friendly Urban Regeneration Smart Technology Support Project' contest and secured 10 billion won in national funding.
Smart City Special

Self-driving cars are now running everywhere in Korea! I Expansion to 17 cities and roads nationwide

2023.12.29 / Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, and Transport 
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Smart City Literature

Analysis of sustainability elements of sustainable smart cities: Focusing on research reports from domestic government-funded research institutes and Seoul City’s basic (implementation) plan for smart cities and informatization

Recently, the role of ICT-based smart cities has been emphasized as a means to realize sustainability, the main goal of cities, and the concept of sustainable smart cities has been proposed as an alternative.  
Seok-Gil Jang, Tae-Hyung Kim (Seoul National University)

Research on improving basic survey items for establishing carbon-neutral city planning

Along with the revision of planning guidelines to achieve carbon neutrality, 'carbon spatial map-based planning support technology development' is being promoted as a national R&D project. This study sought to analyze whether the current basic survey items are met to establish a carbon neutral plan and propose improvements to the legal system.
Heung-cheol Kim, Hye-seon Bang (Jeongdo UIT Co., Ltd.), Yun-soo Choi (University of Seoul), 
Smart City News
CES Consumer Electronics Expo 2024 in Las Vegas, USA

  • Date: January 2024, 1 (Tuesday) – January 9, 2024 (Friday)
  • Location: Las Vegas Convention Center, USA
  • Event keywords: AI·Robotics, Mobility, Metaverse·Web3.0, Smart Home. Digital healthcare, ESG, space tech. Food tech, startup
  • Organized by: Consumer Technology Association of America
9th Smart Cities India Expo

  • Date: January 2024, 1 (Wednesday) – January 17, 2024 (Friday)
  • Location: New Delhi, India
  • Event keywords: AR&VR, AI&robot, smart home, metaverse, technology product, space technology, mobility, MARTECH
  • Organized by: India Trade Promotion Organization, Exhibitions India Group
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