2020-09-08
2020-08-18
Smart City, a safe City for Our Precious Children
The number of traffic accidents with child victims under the age of 12 in Korea was 112,558 in 2019, up 5.5% from 106,651 in 2018. Traffic accidents affecting children in school zones are constantly happening. On average 496 traffic accidents involving child victims within school zones take place every year.
Therefore, South Korea is making efforts to improve traffic safety through cooperation and strengthening traffic safety for children utilizing IoT. The smart crosswalk device is expected to assure traffic safety for children on the way to and from school by securing drivers’ visibility so that drivers can recognize the pedestrian crossing in advance in poor weather conditions such as rain at night, preventing pedestrians jaywalking, and improving pedestrian environment.
Fine dust (pollution) is the most worrisome environmental problem for Korean people in recent years. Not only Korea, but also many countries such as China and India are suffering from serious air pollution problems. In particular, growing children can experience more serious problems.
In order to solve this problem, South Korea has installed urban complex sensors based on IoT and collects 10 types of urban environmental data such as weather and noise as well as air quality. Based on the data, local living environment information and forecasts, including fine dust (pollution), ultraviolet rays, heat waves, etc. are provided, and damage caused by fine dust is being reduced.
In addition, south Korea is utilizing IoT to educate children. Parents are effectively managing education through early childhood education support systems and interaction of individual activity system using wearable safety tags worn by their children.
The World Smart City Expo is designed as a venue for citizens to specifically experience Smart City. You will be able to check out the current status and the future of Smart City with various features at the World Smart City Expo 2020 in October.
2020-08-11
Introduce the results of the World Smart City Expo 2019
The World Smart City Expo 2019 was held under the theme of 'Smart City: Connecting Tomorrow.' Richard Florida, a world-renowned urban economist, attended the event as a keynote speaker at the opening ceremony and discussed the value of the city as a source of growth and creativity as well as the direction to move forward.
The World Smart City Expo 2019 featured 250 companies in the 20,000-square-meter exhibition hall to showcase the latest smart city technology solutions, with a total of more than 25,000 people visiting for three days. The central and local government of Korea participated and operated an experience zone where the visitors were able to experience the smart city in person. The visitors were also able to experience the technologies of the world's smart city as 39 companies from 16 countries around the world took part in the event.
During the expo, consultations worth a total of 265.9 billion won were conducted with overseas buyers, 107.7 billion won of which was actually signed, recording a 38 percent increase from the previous year.
The 2019 World Smart City Expo also hosted civil participation events to raise public awareness of smart city.
As civil participation programs, Smart city Make A Thon, Talk Salon, Smart City Children's Drawing Contest, and Smart City Idea Contest for college students were also held. The participation programs gave us an opportunity to understand what people think about smart city.
The 2019 World Smart City Expo held conferences where smart city experts and citizens gather together and share opinions. Various smart city conferences provided an opportunity for the participants to discuss and share their opinions about smart city.
In particular, along with the conferences, this year’s event will be live-streamed on YouTube so that people will be able to enjoy a variety of programs online. Through live streaming, anyone interested in smart city can check the current status and future of smart city regardless of place at the 2020 World Smart City Expo.
More Information : http://www.worldsmartcityexpo.com/main_en.action
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The World Smart City Expo 2019 featured 250 companies in the 20,000-square-meter exhibition hall to showcase the latest smart city technology solutions, with a total of more than 25,000 people visiting for three days. The central and local government of Korea participated and operated an experience zone where the visitors were able to experience the smart city in person. The visitors were also able to experience the technologies of the world's smart city as 39 companies from 16 countries around the world took part in the event.
During the expo, consultations worth a total of 265.9 billion won were conducted with overseas buyers, 107.7 billion won of which was actually signed, recording a 38 percent increase from the previous year.
The 2019 World Smart City Expo also hosted civil participation events to raise public awareness of smart city.
As civil participation programs, Smart city Make A Thon, Talk Salon, Smart City Children's Drawing Contest, and Smart City Idea Contest for college students were also held. The participation programs gave us an opportunity to understand what people think about smart city.
The 2019 World Smart City Expo held conferences where smart city experts and citizens gather together and share opinions. Various smart city conferences provided an opportunity for the participants to discuss and share their opinions about smart city.
In particular, along with the conferences, this year’s event will be live-streamed on YouTube so that people will be able to enjoy a variety of programs online. Through live streaming, anyone interested in smart city can check the current status and future of smart city regardless of place at the 2020 World Smart City Expo.
More Information : http://www.worldsmartcityexpo.com/main_en.action
Thank you.
2020-08-04
New Move to Change Cities - About 2020 World Smart City Expo
ㅇ According to the
United Nations, the world population is forecast to increase from the current
population of 7 billion to 9 billion by 2050, and the rapid urbanization will
attract more than 2.5 billion people to cities.
ㅇ In cities where many people live together in a limited land, various problems began to arise in residential, environment, and transportation. In order to solve these problems, Korea has pushed for smart city policies from an early stage. Smart City began to be introduced as a downtown renewal solution to the urban problems caused by overpopulation, and now it is receiving worldwide attention as a future city model to live in the future.
ㅇ The global smart cities market is expected to continue to grow and reach $2 trillion by 2025. In Korea, the market is project to expand to 151 trillion won by 2021.
ㅇ In particular, Smart City has been selected as the central policy of the Korean New Deal Policy, which the government is willing to promote for the era after the COVID-19 crisis, and it is expected that the industry will develop significantly in Korea in the future. Accordingly, the World Smart City Expo is designed to improve global competitiveness by creating and spreading practical outcomes of the smart city policies. For citizens, it will be an opportunity to experience smart city in person.
ㅇ Especially, this 2020 World Smart City Expo will live stream on YouTube and you will be able to enjoy a variety of programs and check out the current status as well as the future of Smart City wherever you are.
ㆍ Date: October 28th (Wednesday) – 30th (Friday), 2020
ㆍ Venue:
KINTEX, Exhibition Hall 1
ㆍ Hosts: Ministry
of Land, Infrastructure and Transport, Ministry of Science and ICT
ㆍ Organizers:
Korea Land and Housing Corporation (LH), K-Water, KINTEX
ㆍ Slogan:
Smart City, Connecting Tomorrow
ㆍ Website : www.worldsmartcityexpo.com (info@worldsmartcityexpo.com)
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