Towards a Smarter City! … Pohang-si's 'Smart City Challenge Project' Progressing Smoothly

Smart City Challenge Main Project, 10 Billion KRW National Funding Support with Service Construction Targeted Within the Year

Winner of 'City' Category at World Smart City Expo Awards, Recognized for Smart City Excellence

Pohang City is making steady progress toward completing the construction of the "Smart City Challenge Main Project," which was selected in March last year through a contest hosted by the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport, within this year.

Pohang City won the Domestic Excellent Local Government Award at the World Smart City Expo Awards.

The Smart City Challenge project is designed to solve urban problems in various fields such as transportation, energy, environment, and safety by utilizing creative ideas from local governments, private companies, and universities. After a pilot project demonstration, local governments with excellent results receive 10 billion KRW in national funding.

Pohang City was selected for this project, which solves urban problems through collaboration between companies with excellent technological capabilities and local governments, and received 10 billion KRW in national funding. Since August last year, the city has been promoting the project by establishing services in four major areas: smart city safety, smart transportation, digital administrative innovation, and data hub.

Pohang City is pursuing the project with the goal of realizing a future-oriented smart city through "digitalization of the entire city," and all services are aimed to be completed within this year.

Starting with the demonstration of the Pohang-type DRT project called "Taboso" in June, the city held a digital administrative service demonstration in August, and in October, it conducted demonstrations of the crime prevention CCTV stored video search service and the taxi roof advertising platform service, making every effort to ensure the successful promotion of the Smart City Challenge main project.

In addition, to promote the excellence of the Pohang-type smart city domestically and internationally, the city participated in the "World Smart City Expo 2023 (WSCE 2023)" and operated the Pohang City Smart City Exhibition Hall from the 6th to the 8th of last month.

The "World Smart City Expo" is the largest smart city event in the Asia-Pacific region, where domestic and international urban experts, companies, international organizations, and citizens share policies and technologies related to intelligent cities and discuss the vision and values of cities in an international forum.

At this event, Pohang City was recognized for its achievements in the development and revitalization of the smart city industry and received the World Smart City Expo Awards in the "City" category.

This award was earned due to the city’s proactive leadership in solving urban problems through a dedicated smart city promotion organization aimed at citizen experience, regional coexistence, and venture innovation, as well as continuous exchanges through cooperative systems with domestic and international companies and institutions.

Furthermore, on the 13th, the city participated in the "2023 Urban Regeneration Hanmadang" event held in Cheonan under the theme "Happy Urban Regeneration Embracing Future Generations," where it deliberated on urban regeneration projects and shared visions and policy directions for the new urban space regeneration of Pohang City.

Mayor Lee Kang-deok stated, "Through various smart city projects, we will do our best to efficiently solve urban problems, improve the quality of life for citizens, and create a smart city industrial cluster based on cooperation among the public, private, industry, and academia, thereby transforming into a region-leading smart industrial model city."

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