"Dog Bites and Burn Injuries Also Covered"...Jongno-gu Implements Life Safety Insurance

Jongno-gu, Seoul (Mayor Jeong Munheon) announced on the 8th that it will implement the "2024 Jongno-gu Resident Life Safety Insurance" this year to support residents who suffer various damages from unexpected accidents. All residents are automatically enrolled upon registering their residence without any separate subscription process, and the insurance is canceled upon moving out. The insurance premium is fully covered by Jongno-gu.

The coverage items include accidental death (10 million KRW), permanent disability due to injury (up to 5 million KRW), public transportation injury treatment expenses (grades 1 to 14, up to 1 million KRW depending on injury grade), burn surgery expenses (1 million KRW, for deep second-degree burns or higher), and emergency room treatment expenses for dog bite accidents (200,000 KRW). These were determined considering the compensation performance over the past four years and government support programs, and overlapping coverage with other personal insurance policies is also possible.

Insurance claims can be made by the beneficiary (affected resident) within three years from the date of the accident this year by contacting the insurance company’s Resident Safety Insurance Integrated Consultation Center and submitting the claim directly. Required documents and other detailed information can be found on the district office website, and inquiries can be made to the Life Safety Team of the Safety City Division for guidance.

Meanwhile, the Seoul City Citizen Safety Insurance is also introduced through the district office website. Coverage includes natural disasters, traffic injuries while using public transportation, and traffic accident injuries in school zones and silver zones, with coverage amounts up to 20 million KRW.

Jongno-gu stated, “To protect residents from various accidents that can occur anytime and anywhere in daily life, we are implementing the 2024 Life Safety Insurance from January 1 to December 31,” and added, “We will focus on promoting the insurance so that residents do not miss out on benefits due to lack of awareness about the Life Safety Insurance after an accident.”

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