Yongin Pungdeokcheon-dong Multi-family Housing Area Transformed into a Safe Neighborhood for Residents

Collaboration Among City Hall, Fire Station, and Police Station Promoted at 'Safe Culture Salon'
CPTED Introduced... Installation of Emergency Bells, Logo Projectors, and Emergency Fire Extinguisher Boxes

The multi-family residential area in Pungdeokcheon-dong, Suji-gu, Yongin-si, Gyeonggi-do, has been transformed into a 'Safe Village for Residents' equipped with crime and fire prevention functions.

Yongin City announced on the 16th that it carried out a Safe Village for Residents project by installing facilities applying Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design (CPTED) in the densely populated multi-family housing area around 766 Pungdeokcheon-dong.

Yongin City applied Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design (CPTED) to install pole-type emergency bells (left) and a logo projector in the densely populated multi-family housing area of Pungdeokcheon-dong. Provided by Yongin City

This project was carried out after Mayor Lee Sang-il accepted a proposal made by Kim Byeong-rok, chief of the Yongin Western Police Station, at the 'Safety Culture Salon' meeting last May. The 'Safety Culture Salon' is a gathering initiated by the mayor, where heads of local institutions in Yongin, including city officials, police, fire department, and education, regularly meet since December last year to discuss city safety issues.

The Safe Village for Residents project was implemented after Mayor Lee decided to proceed with the project upon confirming the positive effects of CPTED facilities that were pilot-installed last year in densely populated residential areas of Pungdeokcheon, Yurim, and Singal-dong.

The area in question is a densely populated multi-family housing district around Dokgo Children's Park in Pungdeokcheon-dong, Suji-gu, where about 1,200 households reside. The project involved cooperation among six city departments, Yongin Western Fire Station, and Yongin Western Police Station, with a total investment of 58 million KRW.

The city installed a total of five logo projectors displaying safety messages or house numbers for crime reporting at night, improving the nighttime landscape of alleyways. Nine outdated emergency bells for CCTV were replaced, and one newly designed pole-type emergency bell developed by the city was installed. The 2-meter-high pole-type emergency bell body is equipped with a camera, as well as a speaker and microphone that enable two-way communication with the CCTV control center, allowing for crime prevention and rapid response at night.

To improve park aesthetics, three design lights were also installed. For fire prevention and rapid response in residential areas, parking prohibition signs near fire hydrants were replaced with highly visible LED signs, and ground-level fire hydrants were converted to emergency fire extinguishing devices. Additionally, crosswalks were repainted, no littering signs were newly installed, and nine streetlights were added on side roads.

Mayor Lee said, "Through the Safety Culture Salon, we have been able to make the city's safety network more robust," adding, "Since the newly created Safe Village for Residents has received positive responses from citizens, we will actively support necessary areas for citizen safety going forward."