Sejong City, Korea

Name of the Community: Sejong City

Country: South Korea

Number of inhabitants: 284,353（as of December 31, 2017）

Programme started year: 2014

International Safe Communities Network Membership: Designation year : 2017

Name of the Certifying Centre: Center for Community Safety Promotion, Ajou University Medical Center, Suwon, Korea

Info address on www for the Programme: http://www.sejong.go.kr

For further information contact

・Institution: Sejong City Hall / Safety Affairs Division・Address: 2130, Hannuri-daero, Sejong-si Republic of KOREA ・Zip code: 30151・City: Sejong City・Country: South Korea・Phone (country code included): +82-44-300-3641・Fax: +82-44-300-3629・E-mail: hebestman@korea.kr・Info address on www for the institution: http://www.gccity.go.kr

The program covers the following safety promotion activities

< Table 1 > Execution strategy of the suicide prevention program

AgeStrategy

Child(Age of 7~13)

Youth(Age of 14~19)

Adult(Age of 20~64)

Senior(Age of 65~)

Education

• Management of a group program for children's mental health at a community children's center

• Support program for youth at risk and youth who have a difficulty with adapting at school

• Anger management & sociality education for youth

• Mental health counselling for internet addicted youth

• Management of a group program for youth who are interested in it

• Suicide prevention education & Gatekeeper training for students

• Suicide prevention education & Gatekeeper training for teachers and parents

• Outreach program for mental health at university

• Mental health & suicide prevention online counselling center

• Management a mental health program for pregnant women

• Depression test and risk group management program

• Mental health promotion program for army

• Depression prevention & work stress management education for workers

• Senior mental health and establishment of a network

• Suicide prevention program for abused seniors

• Group program for seniors at risk of depression

• Peer Gatekeeper training for suicide prevention

• Gatekeeper training for taking care of seniors who live alone

Environment improvement

• Improve a site environment where frequent suicide attempts occur (Establishment of Life Love ZONE) • Mental Suicide prevention campaign• Program to establish a suicide prevention & crisis response system

Enforcement

• Management of a mental health promotion center• Management of a 24-hour suicide prevention counselling counter• Establishment of Sejong City's suicide prevention ordinance and management

of a suicide prevention-related professional committee• Management of a online counseling center

< Table 2 > Execution strategy of the traffic safety program

Age

Strategy

Infant/toddler(Age of 0~6)

Child(Age of 7~13)

Youth(Age of 14~19)

Adult(Age of 20~64)

Senior(Age of 65~)

Education

• Traffic safety education for parents/

distribute guidebooks

• Safe walk education

• Distribute reflective equipment

• School bus safety education

• Safe driving education for school bus drivers

• Safe walking education

• Distribute reflective equipment

• Train safe guards for safe walk home after school

• Wearing a helmet when riding a bicycle and inline skates

• Education to encourage wearing a helmet when riding a motorcycle

• Safe drive education for youth

• Creating safe driving culture

• Safe driving education for commercial vehicle drivers (taxi, container trucks, etc.)

• Traffic safety education for senior pedestrians

• Safe driving education for senior drivers

• Distribute reflective equipment

Environment improvement

• Creating safe street to school (school zone)

• Creating safe silver zone

• Creating safe streets for pedestrians • Creating safe roads for vehicles

Enforcement

• Obligation of child safety seat for vehicles

• Strengthen school zone regulations

• Train mother/senior safety instructors

• Strengthen regulation for wearing a helmet for motorcyclers

• Crack down of drinking & driving

• Crack down of speeding

• Strengthen regulation for wearing seat belts

• Strengthen driving test for senior drivers of age 65 and over

• Vehicle alteration regulation (Tinted window, etc.) • Strengthen speed limit near bus stops and intersections

유아

< Table 3 > Execution strategy for the fall prevention program

Age

Strategy

Infant/toddler(Age of 0~6)

Child(Age of 7~13)

Youth(Age of 14~19)

Adult(Age of 20~64)

Senior(Age of 65~)

Education

∙ Infant & toddler safety education for parents

∙ Establishment of a Safe School

∙ Management of a youth counselling center

∙ Strengthen protection & support for runaway youth

∙ Support a night school for youth

∙ Home safety education

∙ Management of a leisure & welfare class for seniors

∙ Fall prevention activity program for seniors

∙ Visiting safety education program for seniors

∙ Professional education for workers in the senior welfare industry

∙ Senior care service program

∙ Support for underprivileged children and youth

∙ Management of Wee Class & Center

∙ Management of a volunteer system for student counselling

∙ Management of a visiting class for safety experience

∙ Management of a visiting safety education program for students

∙ Management of u-119 call service

∙ Daily safety education for children∙ A safety culture event for children∙ Make a safety map for children∙ Citizen safety promotion campaign∙ Management of a community safety program∙ Safety campaign program for school zones

Environment improvement

∙ Safety management of children's play facilities

∙ Senior welfare & education safety inspection

Enforcement

∙ Strengthen a safety management of the Silver industry

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< Table 4 > Execution strategy of the Children, Youth & Elderly safety program

Age

StrategyKindergarten students

Elementary school students

Middleㆍhigh school students

Education • Daily safety education

• Safety events for children (Safety Day event, writing safety journal, etc.)

• School accident prevention education

• School violence prevention program• Emergency response education for

students/teachers

Environment improvement

• Creating safe environment in kindergarten

• Creating safe school environment (improve high-risk area in school)

• Establishing safe school zone

Enforcement

• Strengthen safe environment regulation for kindergarten

• Strengthen school zone safe environment regulation

• Train school safety guards

< Table 5 > Execution strategy of the Violence & crime prevention program

Age

Strategy

Infant/toddler(Age of 0~6)

Child(Age of 7~13)

Youth(Age of 14~19)

Adult(Age of 20~64)

Senior(Age of 65~)

Education

• Kidnap response education

• Sexual violence & sexual harrassment prevention education

• Kidnap & crime response education

• Sexual violence prevention education

• Child abuse prevention education

• School violence prevention program

• Distribute emergency whistle

• School violence prevention program

• Distribute emergency whistle

• Sexual violence & sexual harrassment prevention education

• Youth crime & violence prevention education

• Crime & violence prevention education

• Sexual violence & sexual harrassment at work prevention education

• Domestic violence prevention education

Environment improvement

• Building a model street for safe walk for women/children

• Install CCTV and dash cam for creating a safe community • Crime prevention at a convenient store by establishing the Foot SOS • Crime prevention through environmental design (CPTED) urban

landscape program • Safe neighborhood program • Crime prevention in neighborhood program

Enforcement

• Expand support for the vulnerable youth group (child-headed families)• Management of the support system for child abuse victims• Children safety guard activities

• Management of the integrated control center for citizens safety network• Police and volunteer crime prevention group patrol management• Safe taxi to home services• House trespassing crime prevention activities

< Table 6 > Execution strategy of the disaster preparation program

StrategyElementary school

students/youthAdults Seniors

Education

• Disaster preparation education tour

• Fire safety experience education

• CPR/ first aid education

• Heat wave response

education

• Safety inspection & maintenance for vulnerable households (child-headed families, seniors living alone, people with disabilities) • Safety inspection for fire prevention for houses/daycare/senior

community center • Publish and distribute booklets for disaster preparation and response instructions for citizens • Fire escape drills (finding emergency exit and shelter, learning to use a

fire extinguisher)

Environment improvement

• Household safety inspection for the vulnerable groups (seniors living alone, child-headed families)

• Safety inspection for fire prevention for houses/daycare/senior community center

• Maintenance of a high-risk area which is prone to a natural disaster

Enforcement • Strengthen the safety management standard for urban facilities • Establishment of a hazard forecast and warning system

System establishment

• Establish the comprehensive safety network (establish an electronic disaster map system) • Establish the fire prevention safety foundation & response system (Establish the disaster rescue & relief information support and fire

prevention comprehensive DB) • Establish the urban safety culture through citizens' voluntary

participation (Support & strengthen citizens' volunteer activities; establish the citizen collaboration system; promote the citizen safety culture)

< Table 7 > Safety promotion program for the high-risk social groups

Surveillance of injuries:< The data source by injury domain >

Injury

domainInjury surveillance data Resource

Method of data

collection

Period of

data

production

National Statistics

Regional safety index (suicide, traffic, crime, fire, accident, disease,

natural disaster)

Ministry of Public Safety & Security

(Disaster Safety Research Center)

Administration system network (national

statistics)Each year

Death

Statistics on causes of deaths Korea Statistics

Purchase of the original data Annually

Annual report on unnatural deaths of

Sejong Police StationSejong Police

StationCollecting of

administrative data Annually

Hospitaliza-tion

Door-to-door household survey Sejong City hall

Carrying out of door-to-door

household surveyFive-year

period

Emergency medical

center use

Injury data of educational institutions

School Safety and Insurance

FederationCollecting of

administrative data Annually

119 rescue activity daily records of Fire &

Disaster Headquarters

Sejong Fire & Disaster

Headquarters

Collecting of administrative data

of Sejong Fire Station

Annually

Fire statistics dataSejong

Fire & Disaster Headquarters

Gathering of administration data by

organizationEach year

Door-to-door household survey Sejong City hall

Carrying out of door-to-door

household surveyFive-year

period

Injury data on industrial worker accidents

Data from Korea Occupational

Safety & Health Agency

Report Annually

Traffic accident data of Police Station

Sejong Police Station

Collecting of administrative data

by organizationAnnually

High-risk factors

Investigation of safety consciousness and behavior of Sejong

citizensSejong City hall Door-to-door household survey

Five-year period

Investigation of high-risk environments

(senior community center, daycare center, children’s play facility)

within a community

Sejong City hall Door-to-door survey Five-year period

■ The change in the injury death rate and injury death percentageamong the total deaths (2013～2015)

■ Decrease in the injury death rate by cause

Publication

・The community safety index analysis report of Sejong (2016)・Report on Sejong City International Safe Community Program

Staff

・Leader: LEE,Choon-hee・Number: full-time 3 ・Professions: full-time 3・Permanent: 3・Temporary: 3・Organization: Sejong Safe Community Commission・Specific cross-sectoral leadership group for safety promotion・General public health/health promotion group Related� organizations

International commitments

· Participation in overseas training for urban safety and crisis management(2014.10)

· Participation in an On-Site Evaluation for International Safe Community Designation in Kitamoto City in Japan(2014.11) · Benchmark of advanced International Safe Communities by Safe Community Committee(2015.3) · Participation in the 22nd Annual International Safe Community Conference(2015.4) · Participation in the International Safe Community On-Site Evaluation and the Korea-Japan

joint seminar(2016.11)

Domestic commitments · Participation in the 15th Workshop for National Safe Community Network(2015.4) · Participation in the 16th Workshop for National Safe Community Network(2015.9) · Participation in Gwangju Metropolitan City's International Safe Community Designation

ceremony and network meeting(2016.4) · Participation in the 3rd International Safe Community National Network meeting(2016.8)