[Photo] Lee Seung-ro, Seongbuk-gu Mayor, Participates in 'Children's Traffic Safety' Challenge

[Asia Economy Reporter Park Jong-il] On the 14th, Lee Seung-ro, Mayor of Seongbuk-gu, Seoul, participated in the ‘Children’s Traffic Safety Relay Challenge’ promoted by the Ministry of the Interior and Safety to establish a culture of practicing traffic safety in children protection zones.

This campaign, led by the Ministry of the Interior and Safety, was launched to raise social awareness of traffic safety and establish a culture prioritizing the protection of children, following a recent increase in child fatalities in children protection zones, aiming to build a national consensus on traffic accident prevention.

Mayor Lee joined the campaign upon the nomination of Lee Jeong-hoon, Mayor of Gangdong-gu, delivering the message for practice in children protection zones: ‘Stop at 1! Look both ways at 2! Wait for 3 seconds! Prevent 4 dangers!’

Seongbuk-gu is the first local government to install the ‘Yellow Carpet,’ a representative exemplary case related to children’s traffic safety, devised through collaboration between the International Child Rights Center and residents of Gireum-dong, which now protects children’s safety at about 1,000 locations nationwide.

Since then, following the implementation of the so-called ‘Min-sik Law’ in 2020, Seongbuk-gu proactively promoted measures to strengthen children protection zones, installing unmanned traffic enforcement cameras at 20 locations in front of 17 elementary schools (about 83%), improving two high-accident children protection zones, and initiating three new children protection zone projects.

Also, this year, the district plans to continue strengthening children protection zones by achieving 100% installation of unmanned traffic enforcement cameras in front of elementary schools, expanding traffic light installations, and installing luminous LED traffic safety signs, securing safe school routes for 106 elementary schools’ children protection zones in 2021.

Mayor Lee emphasized his strong commitment to achieving ‘Zero Traffic Accidents in School Zones’ within Seongbuk-gu by establishing a meticulous children’s traffic safety network, expressing hope that “a traffic safety culture where children’s safety is prioritized above all will be established.”

Mayor Lee nominated Kim Il-young, Chairperson of Seongbuk District Council, Choi Seong-gyu, Chief of Seongbuk Police Station, and Kim Yoon-seop, Chief of Seongbuk Fire Station, as the next participants in the campaign.

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