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Conference<br />
gram is designed to establish a rapid disaster response system<br />
through in-depth checks of manpower, equipment <strong>and</strong> disaster<br />
management systems, as well as having a close cooperative system<br />
with relevant institutions. "For settlement of safe cultural activities,<br />
the city has conducted a campaign for safety checks on<br />
the fourth day of every month. It also carried out a joint safety inspection<br />
on crowd facilities with relevant institutions, including a<br />
safety management advisory team <strong>and</strong> fire stations consisting of<br />
experts in fire fighting, construction, electricity <strong>and</strong> gas fields," he<br />
said. "At the same time, the city designated three schools, including<br />
Samcheok High School, as model schools for safety culture<br />
movement to spread safety culture to the regional society. They<br />
have been staging student-centered safety culture campaigns<br />
every month through street campaigns <strong>and</strong> publication of monthly<br />
safety newspapers," the mayor said. Samcheok City, one of the<br />
world's famous cave marine tour cities, featured 55 caves <strong>and</strong> in<br />
2002, when it held the successful "2002 Samcheok World Cave<br />
Expo". In addition, the city boasts such natural gifts as beautiful<br />
mountains, sea, valley, as well as a folk park, a fishing village<br />
pavilion, new millennium seashore road, a cave theme hall, <strong>and</strong> a<br />
cave exploration hall. Under the 2020 Samcheok long-term development<br />
plan, which aims to build an economically independent<br />
city with a population of over 200,000 in 2020, the city plans to<br />
build a cluster of fire fighting <strong>and</strong> disaster prevention industries.<br />
The city also projects building the 4th LNG production base <strong>and</strong><br />
power generation estate, while actively fostering shipbuilders <strong>and</strong><br />
makers of advanced glass materials. At the same time, the city<br />
plans to create a special district to produce organic agricultural<br />
products <strong>and</strong> actively push for development of ocean tourism, he<br />
added.<br />
Monica Chung/ monica@koreaittimes.com<br />
A bird’s-eye view of a fire protection system in Samcheok industrial Complex<br />
Samcheok girls’ junior high school participates in the 2010 training program to<br />
cope with disaster<br />
All information about unexpected disasters are monitored by disaster management<br />
systems<br />
All information about unexpected disasters are monitored by disaster management<br />
systems<br />
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