Gwangju City to Implement Citizen Safety Insurance Starting This Year

Anyone Who Is a Citizen Is Automatically Enrolled

[Asia Economy Honam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Park Seon-gang] Gwangju Metropolitan City announced on the 5th that it has been implementing the "Gwangju Metropolitan City Citizen Safety Insurance" since the 21st of last month to ensure the prompt stabilization of the lives of citizens affected by various accidents or disasters that may occur in daily life.

The Citizen Safety Insurance is a system where the city fully covers the insurance premiums, contracts directly with insurance companies, and pays insurance benefits to citizens who suffer from aftereffects or death due to various natural disasters, accidents, or crime damage.

Anyone who is registered as a Gwangju citizen on their resident registration or a registered foreigner who has declared Gwangju as their place of stay is automatically enrolled without any separate procedures. The coverage period is one year, from the 21st of last month to February 20th of next year.

The coverage items include death caused by natural disasters, injury death and aftereffects caused by explosion, fire, collapse, landslide, injury death and aftereffects while using public transportation, injury death and aftereffects from robbery, school zone traffic accident treatment expenses, among 11 items in total, with a maximum coverage amount of 10 million KRW per item.

Coverage is provided 365 days a year regardless of the accident location or time, and insurance benefits can be received regardless of other insurance subscriptions.

For detailed information such as insurance claim procedures, please refer to the city website under Sector Information/Disaster & Safety/Citizen Safety Insurance Introduction, or contact the City Safety Policy Office or the insurance agency Korea Local Finance Association call center.

Jung Min-gon, Director of the City Citizen Safety Office, said, "Citizen Safety Insurance is an advanced safety welfare system that helps citizens quickly return to daily life from unexpected disasters or accidents," and added, "We will continue to promote safety policies closely connected to citizens' daily lives that they can feel."

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