5 Policy Measures to Establish Safety Cities
Myoengsoo Kim Director

□ (Safety as a core value of urban management) With the rapid economic growth and urbanization, Korea achieved quantitative development but it still remains many problems when it comes to safety. 
 ￭ As the lack of safety awareness and investment and aging infrastructure cause safety accidents, it needs to focus on safety as the first priority in urban management.
 ￭ There are 5 key issues to be improved: sharing urban safety information, integrating and linking urban safety policies, correlating urban safety plans, strengthening cooperation between urban safety entities and promoting participation of community.

□ (Problems) Information gathering of responsible organizations is not consistent and preventive function is not well working under confusing planning system. Also central agencies are not cooperative and safe awareness and public participation is lacking.
 ￭ It is important to establish cooperative system between public and private sectors by sharing information and strengthening capacity of community.