Gwangju City Council Member Park Heeyul Holds 'Citizen Safety Policy Forum'

Seeking Improvements in Safety Management of Welfare Facilities
and Terrorism Response in Multi-Use Facilities

Heeyul Park, a member of the Gwangju Metropolitan Council, held the "Gwangju Citizen Safety Policy Forum" on the 25th at the Special Budget and Accounts Committee room on the 5th floor of the City Council building. Provided by Gwangju Metropolitan Council

The Gwangju City Council announced on the 26th that Council Member Park Heeyul (Democratic Party, Nam-gu 3) held the 'Gwangju City Citizen Safety Policy Forum' in the Special Committee on Budget and Accounts meeting room on the 5th floor of the City Council building on the 25th.

Hosted by the Gwangju City Council, the forum was organized to assess the current state of safety management in social welfare facilities and to seek ways to improve crisis situation manuals, particularly in the field of terrorism, for domestic multi-use facilities.

The forum was chaired by Council Member Park, with presentations by Professor Kim Yongmin of Songwon University and Researcher Oh Hangil of the National Disaster Management Research Institute. Panelists included Professor Baek Jongsun of Gwangju University, Professor Cho Youngtak of Gwangju University, Professor Kim Jongkyu of Honam University, Professor Lee Gihun of Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST), and Professor Hong Seongun of Gwangju University, who offered a variety of opinions and suggestions.

Professor Kim Yongmin, in his presentation, raised issues regarding safety management in social welfare facilities, focusing on the evaluation of such facilities. He presented research on the types of social welfare facilities, evaluation indicators, and current status analysis of safety management.

Researcher Oh Hangil addressed the scope of multi-use facilities, directions for improving manuals, analysis of the RA model for multi-use facilities, crisis situations involving terrorism, and related domestic laws and systems, presenting ways to improve domestic multi-use facilities.

The panelists discussed ways to develop and improve safety management in social welfare facilities, future research directions, the necessity of terrorism safety management in multi-use facilities and ways to improve manuals, raising public awareness of safety regarding terrorism, and response strategies for terrorism, all aimed at enhancing citizen safety.

Council Member Park emphasized, "Accidents caused by insufficient safety management in social welfare facilities and acts of terrorism in domestic multi-use facilities are threats that can occur at any time in citizens' daily lives," adding, "Systematic safety management of social welfare facilities and improvement of terrorism manuals for multi-use facilities are more important than ever."

Park further stated, "Through this forum, I will do my best to ensure that policies related to safety management in social welfare facilities and terrorism in multi-use facilities are established."

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