Songpa-gu Wins Prime Minister's Award for 'Children's Safety'

Creating Safe School Routes... Leading Songpa-gu to Be Safe for Children... Promoting Songpa's Unique Eye-Level Safety Education and Expanding Security CCTV

[Asia Economy Reporter Jong-il Park] Songpa-gu (Mayor Park Seong-su) achieved the great honor of being selected for the Prime Minister's Award in the 10th Children's Safety Awards evaluation, co-hosted by the Ministry of the Interior and Safety and others.

The Children's Safety Awards have been recognizing outstanding cases of basic local governments promoting child safety environments and related policies since 2011. Songpa-gu was honored with the Ministerial Award in 2016 and this year received the Prime Minister's Award.

This year, Songpa-gu implemented various child safety policies in areas such as child eye-level safety education, creation of child-safe traffic environments, child safety measures, and establishment of safety infrastructure.

First, with its unique child safety education, Songpa-gu conducted ▲‘Disaster Safety Experience Festival’ enjoyed like a festival, and ‘Visiting Children's Safety Experience Camp’ ▲produced and distributed ‘Children's Safety Diaries’ to elementary students based on the 7 major safety education standards, encouraging children to take an interest in safety themselves through education tailored to their perspective.

In particular, Songpa-gu has continuously strived to create a traffic environment where both children and parents can feel safe while commuting.

Additionally, as the first in the nation, Songpa-gu installed a ‘Real-time Right Turn Video Alert’ system, and strengthened safety facilities in child protection zones by expanding installations of security CCTV, yellow carpets, and sign-block type yellow footprints.

Along with this, the ‘Songpa Safety Experience Education Center,’ which operates safety experience programs for over 50,000 children annually, conducted online safety experience education this year due to COVID-19, establishing infrastructure capable of providing systematic education from preschool children to adults.

Furthermore, following the creation of safe villages in Macheon 1-dong (2017) and Pungnap 1-dong (2019), this year Songpa-gu expanded safe villages to Munjeong 1-dong, Bangi 2-dong, and Jamsilbon-dong, building an environment where children can feel more secure.

Moreover, through public-private cooperation with the police station, fire station, education support office, Green Mothers' Association, and autonomous disaster prevention groups, safety policies and cooperative projects are being continuously pursued.

Park Seong-su, Mayor of Songpa-gu, said, “I am very pleased that the efforts and policies prioritizing children's safety and establishing related infrastructure since the beginning of my term have been recognized,” and added, “We will continue to do our best to create a safe environment for children.”

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