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Daejeon, Gimhae and Bucheon Become Korean-Style Smart Cities... 6 Billion KRW Funding
- Pursuing smart city ‘themed special complex establishment project’
□ MOLIT (Minister Kim Hyun-mee) announced that it had selected three places – Daejeon Metropolitan City, Gimhae-si of Gyeongsangnam-do, Bucheon-si of Gyeonggi-do – were selected to support the 2019 ‘Themed Special Complex Establishment Project*’.
* Project that applies various smart services in existing cities to improve living convenience such as transportation, energy, crime-prevention, etc. to strengthen the unique local industrial and cultural competitiveness to support the creation of outstanding smart city cases
** Categorized into the first stage project planning support (2018) and second stage establishment support (’209) to support building costs by selecting (3 places) as outstanding cases among local governments that established general plans last year
ㅇ The selected local governments will receive a total of 6 billion KRW (approximately 2 billion KRW per local government) in national funding to support the establishment of services. The local governments will set aside an equal amount to the supported national funding with provincial budgets to pursue the project at a total cost of 12 billion KRW.
□ Meanwhile, the selected local governments propose smart city service utilization plans suitable to the features of the existing urban areas in the regions, so it is expected that various types of Korean-style smart city models will be created.
ㅇ Daejeon Metropolitan City will pursue the establishment of the ‘Re-New Science Village’ that offers life-friendly smart services surrounding the old Daedeok R&D Special District.
- Wireless charging electric buses developed by KAIST will be introduced in new public transportation services and bus rest areas will be installed that offers heating and cooling and a variety of convenience facilities. A safe citizen’s rest area will be built around Tandong-cheon (Riv.) and will include smart street lights, etc. with heightened crime prevention.
- In addition, it will establish six technology experience halls through inter-research agency cooperation and operate tour programs so that citizens can easily experience the latest fourth industry technologies.
Chemical Playgound, Energy Racing, What`s in the ground, IoT Experience Center, AR Experience, Monthly Science Theme in Kiosk
- In the future an open platform-type integrated management center will be constructed by developing the cooperation system among research agencies in its plans to expand smart city services so that it can be reborn as a global research complex that shares and utilizes research facilities in the special district, promotes research collaboration, etc.
ㅇ Gimhae is planning to attract tourists by establishing the ‘Go Go Gaya Smart Tourism Service’ that finds new local tourism industries by utilizing historical experience items using augmented reality (AR), virtual reality (VR) and holograms and by providing tourism conveniences based on constructing a smart mobility.
- In particular, it was proposed to install public WiFi servers to 130 areas around the project site to offer conveniences to tourists, while also proposing smart services that analyze public WiFi utilization information. Systematic management of relevant information such as floating population per tourism facility will be used for improving tourism promotion policies and to activate local businesses.
ㅇ Bucheon City proposed the ‘Microdust Clean Special Complex’ that links big data analysis with microdust reduction services. It plans to install microdust measurement stations in each neighborhood to provide reliable information on microdust, while utilizing the collected information to use for establishing microdust countermeasures suitable to Bucheon City through AI-based analysis.
- It will identify the features of microdust occurring in Bucheon through big data analysis, and with the assistance of this, it will predict the occurrence of microdust in advance to preemptively conduct reduction measures before citizens feel the discomfort.
- The microdust reduction service will first be provided in areas of community interest such as the surroundings of ready-made concrete plants, urban school commuting routes, subway stations, etc., and the city announced that it will use smart reduction devices, smart sprinkler trucks, etc. linked to the big data system.
□ Support for the ‘Themed Special Complex Project’ will first support the establishment of general plans for various types of special complexes in a total of 12 local governments by 2021, and it is planning to provide support for the actual establishment of about two complexes every year.
□ MOLIT Urban Economy Division Manager Lee Jung-hee said, “By linking the various smart services discovered during the general plan establishment process to its actual establishment, we hope to create outstanding cases that the citizens can actually feel and experience and we expect that it will help spread the Korean-style smart cities.”
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