Ministry of the Interior and Safety Selects 79 Institutions Including Ministry of Education and Seoul City as Outstanding Public Safety Education Organizations

Announcement of Results for the Implementation Status Check of National Safety Education

[Asia Economy Reporter Lim Cheol-young] The Ministry of the Interior and Safety conducted a review of last year's national safety education performance targeting 268 institutions including central government ministries and local governments, and announced the selection of outstanding institutions by central ministries, metropolitan cities/provinces, and cities/counties/districts.

On the 14th, the Ministry of the Interior and Safety announced that six institutions including the Ministry of Education, Ministry of Environment, Ministry of Employment and Labor, Ministry of Oceans and Fisheries, National Police Agency, and Korea Coast Guard were selected as outstanding institutions. In the case of the Ministry of Education, it was highly evaluated for mandating more than 51 hours of student safety education annually and expanding experience-based safety education to improve students' safety awareness, as well as for expanding the operation of the school violence prevention education program ‘Eoullim’ to all schools, thereby solidifying school violence prevention education.

The National Police Agency contributed to preventing traffic accidents in child protection zones by preparing a comprehensive joint countermeasure with six related ministries. It was well evaluated for strengthening child safety by expanding the obligation to complete safety education related to children's school buses from the existing ‘operators’ and ‘drivers’ to include ‘accompanying guardians.’

For metropolitan cities/provinces, five institutions including Seoul Special City, Gwangju Metropolitan City, Daejeon Metropolitan City, Gyeongsangbuk-do, and Gyeongsangnam-do were selected, and for cities/counties/districts, 68 institutions including Haeundae-gu in Busan, Suwon-si in Gyeonggi, Nam-gu in Ulsan, Danyang-gun in Chungbuk, and Gwangyang-si in Jeonnam were selected. Seoul Special City was highly evaluated for opening the Mokdong Disaster Experience Center, an edutainment-type facility combining education and entertainment, which attracted public response through differentiated programs such as disaster escape experiences, digital safety experiences, and natural disaster VR experiences compared to existing safety experience center educational content.

Gyeongsangnam-do was evaluated for operating a ‘VR Disaster Safety Experience Vehicle’ that provides highly realistic safety experience education without time and space constraints, and for producing and distributing safety education materials in five languages for multicultural families and foreign workers, thereby enhancing residents' disaster response capabilities.

The Ministry of the Interior and Safety plans to share and spread outstanding cases of safety education promotion to each institution and prepare improvements for areas where safety education promotion is insufficient, reflecting them in next year's safety education implementation plan.

Lee Yong-cheol, Director of the Safety Policy Office, emphasized, “Safety education should be conducted so that citizens recognize the importance of safety in daily life and can respond to various disasters and safety accidents on their own,” and added, “Related institutions need to actively strive to reflect the outstanding cases selected this time in policies to ensure that safety education is established in the daily lives of the people.”