Gangseo-gu 'Magok Safety Experience Center' Opens on the 17th

3-Story Safety Education Facility Built at 22.8 Billion KRW
Gangseo-gu, Seoul City, and Seoul Metropolitan Office of Education Collaborate to Establish in Balsan Neighborhood Park
Trial Operation from May to June, Official Operation Starts in July

Gangseo-gu, Seoul (Mayor Jin Gyo-hoon) will open the ‘Magok Safety Experience Center,’ an experiential safety education facility where people can directly experience and prepare for various disasters and dangerous situations, on the 17th.

After the opening ceremony, the district plans to conduct a pilot operation for two months in May and June targeting civil defense members, students, and residents, and then start full-scale operation from July. Residents can make reservations through the Magok Safety Experience Center website after May 1 and use the facility every Saturday starting from the third week of May.

Located in Balsan Neighborhood Park in Naebalsan-dong, the experience center is a three-story building with a total floor area of 3,825㎡. The center is equipped with four experience zones?Traffic Safety, Student Safety, Disaster Safety, and Health Safety?as well as a 4D theater, a special exhibition hall, an orientation room, and a large auditorium, operating 12 programs across six fields.

The Traffic Safety Experience Zone realistically recreates subways, buses, and crosswalks. Visitors can experience how to respond to subway and bus accidents, evacuate from tracks, and emergency escapes. It also provides safety education on school zones and the safe use of bicycles and kickboards.

The Student Safety Experience Zone includes rooms for life safety, missing child safety, and personal safety. The life safety room is decorated exactly like a real home with an elevator, bedroom, and bathroom, allowing visitors to experience elevator accidents and noise between floors. It also offers hygiene education such as handwashing by visually showing germs on hands.

The Disaster Safety Experience Zone vividly recreates earthquake damage sites and consists of a natural disaster safety room where visitors can directly feel earthquake situations, a fire safety room for practicing with fire extinguishers and evacuation devices, and a flood and wind disaster safety room to experience the power of typhoons.

In the Health Safety Experience Zone, visitors can practice emergency treatments such as cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) and automated external defibrillator (AED) use, as well as experience packing survival bags and wearing gas masks.

The Magok Safety Experience Center is the first safety education facility in the country built through cooperation among basic local governments, metropolitan governments, and education offices. Gangseo-gu, Seoul City, and the Seoul Metropolitan Office of Education invested a total budget of 22.8 billion KRW for the construction of the center.

Mayor Jin Gyo-hoon said, “The Magok Safety Experience Center is the nation’s first large-scale safety experience center directly operated by a district, and it is a much-needed facility like rain for our region where experiential safety education has been urgently needed.”

The opening ceremony will be held at 10 a.m. on the 17th, attended by Mayor Jin Gyo-hoon, Superintendent of Education Jo Hee-yeon, local members of the National Assembly, and city and district council members.