Making a safe city with competitiveness

KOSHA visits Ul-san, the ‘innovative city’, on 29^th to find out ways to promote the city

29^th October

KOSHA looks around the city, Ul-san where the agency moves to in 2014 under the decentralization scheme of the Korean government, as part of its efforts to boost the local economy based on safety.

President Hun-ki Baek and his team of KOSHA visited the construction work site of the new building of KOSHA in Ul-san, dubbed ‘innovative city’, and had a meeting with its partners there on 29^th October. 

The meeting was held in the meeting room of DKT, the pressure vessel manufacturer where safety managers and representatives from 13 partners of KOSHA joined. President Hun-ki Baek encourages all the participants to be cooperative in laying a ground for making Ul-san a safe place. In addition, he promised to give the innovative city technological assistance as well as promote the city’s industrial development through forging an interdisciplinary cluster between the industry, academia and research sector.

Meanwhile, he pointed out the importance of activities to promote safety culture through network between companies and their subcontractors, adding that he would spare no effort to forge a ‘safe city’.

Before his visit to the construction work site, he also took a visit to a welfare facility for low-income single moms, located in Jung-gu of the city and delivered money collected, to help the community by sharing what the agency has.


                                        
President Baek (second from right) looks around the construction work site of the innovative city