‘Smart City, Connecting Tomorrow’ - 2019 World Smart City Expo to Take Place

The largest international event in Asia-Pacific region will provide a variety of events such as conference, exhibition, civil participation events, etc.

  

□ ‘2019 World Smart City Expo (WSCE 2019)’, the largest smart city international event in Asia-Pacific region, hosted by the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport (Minister: Kim Hyun-mee) and the Ministry of Science and ICT (Minister: You Young-min) and jointly organized by LH, K-water, and KINTEX will take place in Goyang KINTEX from September 4^th to 6^th.

□ This year's event integrates the World Smart City Week and the Smart Cities Innovation Summit Asia that were held from 2017 and other Korean smart city related events and is newly named as ‘World Smart City Expo 2019’. The event is preparing for a new start as a global leading Smart City event.

 ㅇUnder the theme of 'Smart City, Connecting Tomorrow', many kinds of events will be provided not only for Korean and international city experts, related companies, governments and international organizations related to smart cities but also for citizens such as Makeathon, Idea Contest, Talk Salon, etc. 

 ㅇ The opening ceremony on September 4^th will be attended by some 350 people* from about 30 countries, including domestic and international experts, governments, business people, and mayors of overseas cities who are participating in various programs during the event.

 ㅇIn addition, a world's leading urbanists Florida Richard, a professor at the School of Management at the University of Toronto, is invited as the keynote speaker.

 ㅇ The main events will be conferences, seminars and smart city exhibitions at the KINTEX exhibition hall and conference rooms for three days from September 4^th to 6^th. The event is planning to establish itself as the largest Smart City Expo in Asia by providing better understanding the policy direction and trends for Smart City as well as opportunities for overseas export exchanges.

 ㅇ In particular, the event plans to spread public awareness and consensus on Smart City policies by sharing various ideas about Smart City with the participation of all citizens both children and adults.

□ Talk Salon, which will be held in the form of a talk show, is designed to enhance the general public’s understanding of Smart City through a humanistic interpretation and perspective on Smart City and will be open to everyone. Especially, Professor Jeong Jae-seung, the Master Planner of the Pilot Smart City of Sejong 5-1 Life Zone, which is promoted as the government’s core policy project, will lead the talk show with the theme of ‘How Much Do You Know about Smart City?’ at KINTEX on September 5^th.

□ For more information about the event and schedule, please visit the official website of ‘2019 World Smart City Expo’ (www.worldsmartcityexpo.com).

   * Inquiries: WSCE Secretariat (Phone: 031-738-4474)

□ An official at the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport said, “As the domestic and international interest in Smart City is increasing recently, the '2019 World Smart City Expo' is preparing for richer and more colorful events than last year.”

 ㅇ  The official added, “In particular, we hope that the 2019 World Smart City Expo will spread Korea’s vision and values for Smart City around the world and Smart City will become the technology that makes people happy with sustainable innovation growth and improved quality of life.”

World's First National Pilot Smart City Busan

Busan pilot city plans to build a global robot city that utilizes robots in all aspects of life.

The city plans to introduce care robots for the socially disadvantaged and 

service robots for parking and logistics, etc. and to create a robot industry 

development center.

The World's First National Pilot Smart City Sejong 5-1 Life Zone

Sejong and Busan are being promoted as national pilot smart cities. 

They are the high technology intensive future smart city built on the blank lands.

Korea is the world’s first country to create smart city demonstration complexes at the national level while the countries around the world are fiercely competing in the field of Smart City to lead the Fourth Industrial Revolution era.

Sejong now has an empty land and it is divided into 5 regions to build the smart city.

We will create the Artificial Intelligence (AI)-based city that changes citizens' daily lives with 7 areas of innovation, including mobility, and healthcare.

Sejong will function as a single large-scale hospital

For example, there is a plan to provide customized treatment immediately provided upon the arrival of patients by providing the patient’s conditions in real time on their dispatch to the hospital, while dispatching ambulances and providing rescue services in optimal paths

when emergencies occur. 

Smart City Strategy of Korea - ④ Global Networking

We will look into the Smart City Strategy of Korea following the Episode 3. 

Korea establishes smart city global networks with other countries including Netherland,

international agencies and academia to make a sustainable future for smart cities globally.

Various types of cooperation are underway ranging from policy and experience sharing

to joint projects and cross-testing of solutions. 

Furthermore, Korea plans to make the “World Smart City Expo” to be launched from this year into the largest international event in East Asia that leads global issues.

On the theme of “Smart City, Connecting Tomorrow”

the World Smart City EXPO will be held for three days from 4th September at KINTEX. 

We introduced about the Smart City Strategy of Korea.

For more  information, please visit our website (www.worldsmartcityexpo.com) or contact s via email! (info@worldsmartcityexpo.com). 

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Smart City Strategy of Korea - ③ Ecosystem for innovation

Today, we will look into the history of Korea’s Smart City following the  Smart City Strategy of Korea. 

Third, formation of an innovative ecosystem.

In Korea, the Smart City law was legislated already in 2008.

And now, we plan to adopt the “regulatory sandbox” granting temporary waivers to businesses for new technology and pilot services.

In particular, a living lab is a process and a governance for citizens

to find urban problems themselves,

and address them through smart technologies.

It is a core element to form a people-oriented smart city.

Efforts are also underway to pave the way for fostering the industry.

We plan to support youths to start up their business and find new sales channels.

Smart City Strategy of Korea - ② Infrastructure Building

Today, we will look into the history of Korea’s Smart City following the  Smart City Strategy of Korea. 

The second strategy is to establish the basic infrastructure for a smart city.

Korea is currently working on national R&D program for smart cities based on data and AI . This plan is to invest a total of 130 million dollars for five years from 2018. 

This project consists of three phases

The first one is data model and hub technologies.

And the second and third are experiments on diverse solution in two places, Daegu and Siheung based on first R&D outcomes.

For R&D project, a total of 76 universities, companies and research institutions take part

 led by the major company like SKT and KT.

The goal is to spread this basic platform to a total of 229 local governments by 2023.

There is also a plan to diversify aligned public services that are provided by using the platform.

The human resources is also important.
We will provide scholarships and internships for students majoring in smart cities

in partnership with six universities in Korea

In the next episode, we will introduce the 3rd of  Smart City Strategy of Korea in detail. 

For more information, please visit our website (www.worldsmartcityexpo.com) 

or contact us via email! (info@worldsmartcityexpo.com)

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Smart City Strategy of Korea - ① Specialized City Design

Today, we will look into the smart city strategy of  Korea.  

First strategy is special city design  

We show a national pilot city project for new city building.

The national pilot city project is a forward-looking smart city model

where various cutting-edge technologies are clustered on an empty land

There are two cities in the project: Living Zone No.5-1 in Sejong and Eco-Delta City in Busan. The master planners are Brain scientist and data specialist.

First, Sejong City.

Sejong plans to form a smart city based on the AI-based city concept

that transforms its citizens’ day-to-day life through seven innovative factors,

namely, mobility, healthcare, education, energy and others.

One of the most important services in Sejong is mobility.

In Sejong, in some areas we have plans to utilize smart mobility such as personal mobility and autonomous-driving shuttles. 

Moreover, we would also introduce a service called “MaaS” that connects all transportation such as bus, taxi, bike and PM into a single platform.

Another important service is healthcare.

Sejong will function as a single large-scale hospital

For example,

there is a plan to provide customized treatment immediately provided upon the arrival of patients by providing the patient’s conditions in real time on their dispatch to the hospital while dispatching ambulances and providing rescue services in optimal paths

when emergencies occur.

The next project is Eco Delta City national pilot project for Busan.

For Busan, a state-of-the-art waterfront city will be built based on

10 innovative factors including robots, water and energy based on the data and AR.

There is a plan to turn Busan into a world-class robotic city where robots are utilized throughout citizens’ lives such as delivery, care, and parking and robot-friendly infrastructure is installed to support developing the robotic industry.

Also important thing is water.

The latest technologies will be applied to the entire water circulation process in the city

ranging from rainwater collection to water purification and recycling.

The goal is to turn Busan into an eco-friendly city where the water can be reused 100%.

Next, we introduce to you the Smart City Challenge program for the existing cities.

This project supports for private companies to explore the creative solutions for urban 

problems.

For example,

Incheon City plans to establish the “demand-response transportation system”

that changes bus routes depending on the real-time passenger volume

in partnership with Hyundai Motors.

We will support Funding for planning & pilot project in first year

And expansion in second year after competition.

To be continued…

For more information, please visit our website (www.worldsmartcityexpo.com) or contact us via email! (info@worldsmartcityexpo.com)

Smart City Strategy of Korea

We will take a look at the implementation strategies for smart cities in Korea

based on such strengths and experiences.

Through smart cities,

Korea is committed to strengthening global cooperation by setting up an innovative ecosystem while solving urban problems and pursuing inclusive cities to embrace all citizens.

We have for strategies for these.

First, we form a customized smart city model suited to a new city and the existing one.

Second, we establish the foundation such as R&D and human resources.

Third, we implement various policies such as regulatory improvement to set up an ecosystem.

Fourth, we establish a global network to share insights and experiences with other countries.

For more information, please visit our website (www.worldsmartcityexpo.com) or contact us via email! (info@worldsmartcityexpo.com)

We will be back with more useful information.

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Current Status of Korea’s Smart City Promotion (Municipalities) Episode 2

Many local governments in Korea have formed task force teams to pursue various Smart City related projects.

As of June 2019, 78 municipalities across the country have established task force such as Smart City departments and teams, and the number is increasing rapidly in recent years. There are some 60 local governments that are promoting government funded smart city projects.

Status of Task Force: 10 in 2014 → 34 in 2018 → 78 in 2019 (17 metropolitans +61 cities)

Smart services and business types are also diversifying.

In 2014, two sectors, including crime/disaster prevention (35%), accounted for 67%. However, recently, it is diversified with 24% of crime/disaster prevention, 22% of transportation, 15% of administration, 15% of environment, energy and water resources, 8% of facility management and 7% of health and welfare.

Current Status of Korea’s Smart City Promotion (Policy Direction) Episode 1

The Korean government is committed to promote Smart City policies. Korea enacted relevant laws to support smart city development in 2008.

Based on the experiences of building U-City since the early 2000s, the Korean government has selected eight businesses to lead innovative growth with a view to preemptively responding to the 4^th Industrial Revolution and securing new growth engine for the future.

The eight industries to lead innovative growth are Smart Factory, Bio Health, Pin Tech, Future Car, Smart City, Smart Farm, Energy New Industry and Drone.

In addition, the three major strategic investment fields, such as data economy, artificial intelligence, and hydrogen economy are working on innovative talent training in cooperation with the eight leading businesses.

Korea provided a variety of exemptions by revising the relevant legistrations last year and this year in order to foster new industries such as autonomous vehicles in the pilot cities, drone and new renewable energy as well as to utilize personal information.

Moreover, Korea is promoting the introduction of ‘Smart City Regulatory Sandbox" that eliminates all of the regulations to help combining technologies and services required in the region without restrictions.

Korea's smart city policies are gradually expanding and evolving in accordance with the changing conditions.

<Source: The 3^rd Smart City Comprehensive Plan of Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport (Public Hearing for the 3rd Smart City Comprehensive Plan)  

 Presentation materials for Ministry of Land and Habitat Training Program by Inviting Public Officials>