The Korean Approach to
Smart City and Smart Government

IT & Korea

3
“Economic revitalization is going to be propelled by a creative economy and
economic democratization….At the very heart of a creative economy lie
science technology and the IT industry” (President Park Geun-hye)

4
0
15,000
30,000
45,000
60,000
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53,624
37,180
18,458
18,254
unit X1,000
Telephone Line
Internet User
Broadband Internet
SmartPhone
32,727
Mobile Phone
Telecommunication Internet & Mobile Smart
IT Development of Korea
Korean
Population

Network Technologies (Dec 2012)
5
Satellite
0%
FTTH
25%
HFC
27%
LAN
36%
xDSL
12%
LTE
29%
WCDMA
50%
CDMA
20%
Broadband Internet Mobile
LTE
36.4%
(Mar 2013)

M2M Subscribers
6
0
500,000
1,000,000
1,500,000
2,000,000
2008 2009 2010 2011 2012
Total SKT LGU⁺ KT
Source: Korea Communications Commission

M2M Services
7
Other
6.9%
Facility Management
13.7%
Remote Metering
16.4%
Telematics
19.2%
Wireless Payment(POS)
43.8%
Source: www.etnews.com

8
80
85
90
95
100
2004 2006 2008 2010 2012
RFID for Food Waste Children Safety
Smart PaymentBus Information

M2M Market Forecast
9
0
5
10
15
20
25
2010 2012 2014 2016 2018 2020
Solution/Service Network HW
2.3
4.5
7.6
11.7
17.4
26
Source: KT
Unit=
b USD

IoT and Smart City
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RFID/USN M2M Internet of Things
Tipping Point
Korea
Smart City
What is Smart City?
“City as a Platform : City enabling data
sharing and smart services across city”

u-City

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Why City?
0
25
50
75
100
1950 2009 2050
51.9
25
3
62.9
34.2
7.3
91.5
68.3
25.3
World Population
Urban Population
Urban Pop in Developing Countries
Unit=
100 million
1960 2010
83%
28%
Urbanization
in Korea
City is a center of human life.
In developing countries, 13,000 cities with 200,000 population will be newly created by 2050
Source: UN

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“If the cities of the past were shaped by people,
the cities of the future are likely to be shaped by ideas,
and there are a lot of competing ones”
(BBC)

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12 u-City has been built since 2005

Types of u-City
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New City
Whole City
Old City
Town
City Type
Scope
Songdo Pusan
Dongtan D-cube City

Is u-City an answer?
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u-City Operating Center

What to be Improved?
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“What is different?”
• little difference from
other cities
• developer perspective
• focus on city function
• high costs and silos
• little role of citizen

Smart City

Lessons from Experiences
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Value up Cost down
❶ Open Platform
❷ Citizen as Sensors
① Citizen Perspective
② Service-focused
③ Innovation-driven ❸ Scalable approach
④ Data Sharing ❹ Smart City Lab
- collaboration with other cities

Looking for a New Strategy
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Data
CitizenFocus on
Service
Smart City

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ubiquitous City✓
Computer
Smart City✓Service
Broadband Internet

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“One might be surprised to discover
more differences than similarities
among Smart City projects”
❶ High-tech City
• Enhancing value and
attractiveness of a city
• Songdo, Dubai
❷ Smart Living and Sustainability
• Enabling sustainable
economic development
• Amsterdam
❸ balanced approach
• Seoul

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Definition of Smart City
Smart City is
“ a City as a Platform”
for Data Sharing and Smart Services across City

Smart City Platform
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Smart City
Platform
Geospatial Information
(smart map + LBS + sensor + citizen)
Data Sharing
(key city data like energy, traffic, water…...)
ICT Infrastructure
City Innovation System
(Smart City Labs within and between Cities)
Private Investment
&
Industrialization of
Smart Services

Smart City Architecture
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Internet
e-Gov | e-Biz | e-Life | .........
Mail Web Apps
Internet
Smart City & Gov3.0
Talk Sense
Internet of Things
Gov that thinks
(what-to-do)
Geo-Information
.....
Analyze.....
software
smartware
Data Bank

Smart Infrastructure : case of Seoul
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Network
Mobile
Wired
Geospatial
Information
Sensor
GIS
People
• u-Seoul net (2003~ )
• u-Service net (2011~ )
• Broadband Internet
• Public WiFi
•WiBro (WiBro-WiFi Hybrid)
• LTE
• Spatial Data Warehouse
• 3D GIS (2012, 38%)
• Semantic Map
• Mobile: Bus,Taxi
• Fixed : Sensor + CCTV,WiFi
• Community Mapping

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•Smart Device
• Fee Wifi
• Smart Literacy
600,000
5 min
100,000
Smart Citizen : case of Seoul
The city of Seoul declared smart life as a basic right of all citizen

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Community Mapping

Smart Government

Korea e-Government
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UN e-Gov Evaluation, 2012
Seoul
Toronto
Madrid
Prague
Hong Kong
NewYork
Stockholm 60.26
60.49
60.81
61.72
63.63
64.31
84.74
City e-Gov Index, 2011

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Trust in Government

Government is Scientific?
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Evidence-based Policy
Policy-based Evidence
vs

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“Management is doing things right;
leadership is doing the right things”

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“There is nothing quite so useless, as doing
with great efficiency, something that should
not be done at all”
“It is better to do the right thing wrong than
the wrong thing right”
- Peter F. Drucker -
- Russell L.Ackoff -

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Government 3.0
Gov 1.0
(e-government)
Gov 2.0
(platform government)
Gov 3.0
(smart government)
government that
works well
government that
opens to people
government that
thinks
process innovation
(how-to-do internal)
governance innovation
(how-to-do external)
policy innovation
(what-to-do)
IT system web & app data
concept
goal
resource
Korea

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❶ Open Data & Citizen Engagement
Gov3.0
Old
Government
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Share
Engagement

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❷ Collaboration
collaboration Performance
Management
SNS,Teleconference
Knowledge Base/Semantic
Accountability

❸ Personalized Services
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Government
(Data Analysis)
Individual
Citizen
(Life Cycle, etc)
:
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Personalized &
Customized
Services
Personalization : services based on citizen attributes and needs
Customization : ability of citizen to modify government services

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Revitalize the Korean Economy
Creative Economy
Smart City and Gov3.0

Thank you!
감사합니다.
Hwang, Jong-Sung, Ph.D.
Research Fellow
National Information Society Agency
hjs0199@gmail.com