Daegu City Receives Final Approval from Ministry of Land for 'Smart City Plan'... 586.9 Billion KRW Invested by 2025

Announcement of Plans in 6 Areas: Traffic, Safety, Environment, Welfare, Economy, and Administration on Daegu City Website

Xi Jinping on March 31st at the National Daegu Science Museum exhibition hall in Dalseong-gun, Daegu, where staff members are disinfecting the facilities. [Image source=Yonhap News]

[Asia Economy Yeongnam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Choi Jae-ho] Daegu City has received final approval from the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport for its smart city plan, established to solve urban problems, secure urban competitiveness, and improve quality of life, and announced the finalized plan on the city’s website on the 6th.

The smart city plan includes the vision and promotion strategies for creating a Daegu-type smart city model from 2021 to 2025, as well as a mid- to long-term roadmap for building 26 smart city services across six key sectors.

Daegu City set the promotion directions as citizen empathy, corporate coexistence, and spatial innovation to realize a happy smart Daegu (vision) for living and working spaces, and proposed promotion strategies including building experiential services, expanding citizen participation, creating business models, fostering advanced industrial environments, digital transformation, and spatial arrangement innovation.

The smart city plan services are categorized into six key sectors: transportation, safety, environment, welfare, economy, and administration.

The transportation sector focuses on advanced traffic management systems (ATMS), AI-based traffic signal systems (Alpha Brain), next-generation intelligent transportation systems (C-ITS), expansion and advancement of smart parking, and autonomous shuttle services.

The safety sector includes integrated disaster warning dissemination and response through smart infrastructure integrated management; the environment sector features air-purifying bus stops and smart water management systems; the welfare sector emphasizes the distribution of smart silver walkers and installation of public Wi-Fi in public living zones.

In the economic sector, support for companies based on manufacturing process innovation and a 5G-based smart tourism service platform are highlighted, while the administrative sector includes a smart city integrated operation center and public disclosure of digital administrative status boards.

Building the Daegu-type smart city is expected to cost approximately 586.9 billion KRW by 2025. The production inducement effect is estimated at 1 trillion KRW, value-added inducement effect at 440 billion KRW, and employment inducement effect at over 4,500 jobs.

Funding will be secured by linking with central government-led smart city pilot projects, R&D projects, urban regeneration New Deal projects, and other initiatives, or by covering project costs through the city’s own investments and public-private partnership commercialization.

Daegu Mayor Kwon Young-jin emphasized, "With the big blueprint for smart city creation over the next five years completed, we will focus on intensive implementation to realize services that citizens can feel and experience, and through this, establish a foundation for companies to grow alongside."

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