Songpa District is one of the beautiful city blessed by nature. It is surrounded by the Cheongnyang Mountain and the river runs through its four sides. As the ancient capital of Baekje Dynasty about 2,000 years ago, it has blossomed its culture, influencing much on Japan, China, and South East countries. Today, it remains as a Community in harmony with tradition and modernity, where the 1986 Asian Games and 1988 Seoul Olympic Games were held. With its long history and cultural heritage, Songpa District now aims at being more cultural humanity city in 21C, the age of local government. Especially, the year of 2008 marks 20th anniversary of Songpa District office, and to we set the objectives to be certified as Safe Community by the WHO Collaborating Center on Community Safety Promotion, having various efforts in cooperation with local communities. In the result of our survey on injury status in our district, unlikely in other age population, the infants and children injury mortality rate was higher than the entire Seoul metropolitan average, and we have mainly processed the life safety promotion projects for children. For example, we have provided safety education for parents and the safety facilities, renovation from playgrounds into safety parks, and the designated non-smoking parks and the safe houses. Safety instructors have been dispatched to conduct relevant education and the safety story books tale books been given out, in order to protect our children from danger. Safe Community 2008 SONGPA Along with Safety Expo to provide comprehensive and scientific education, we set the ground for children to grow in safety environment by signing the safety insurance policies, and disseminated the safety manuals to the public. We included home safety and Cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) training in the civil defense exercise program to enhance public awareness, and provided other various programs by opening the dancing installing the safety bar in the Senior Center, and designating the elderly protection areas. In order to develop and disseminate safety programs, we have made efforts to reduce social and economic loss as well as to enhance our residents’ quality of life, by establishing mutual cooperative systems with domestic cities and international cities in Australia, Thailand, China. Now we are supposed to show our injury and accident prevention program to the site visit reviewer team, and then modified insufficient parts from the feedback, making our best efforts to enhance the safety of our district residents. We will continue to develop and disseminate the injury and accident prevention programs, and reduce social and economic loss in our district in compatibility with Standards of the International Safe Community Network, so that 620,000 Songpa District residents and 1,400 district staff may cooperate and produce good results. February, 2008 Mayor of Songpa District Office Kim, Young Soon CONTENTS >> CHAPTER1 Introduction of Songpa District 1-1. Location and Climate | 05 1-2. Size, Population, Housings | 06 1-3. Economic, educational, cultural and other facilities | 06 1-4. District office status | 08 1-5. Symbol of Songpa District | 08 >> CHAPTER2 Overview of Safe Community Songpa 2-1. Background | 09 2-2. Process of Safe Community projects | 10 >> CHAPTER3 Injury Status of Songpa District 3-1. The transition of injury death in Songpa District | 11 3-2. Injury Mortality | 17 3-3. Injury Morbidity | 18 3-4. Environmental and behavioral injury risk | 19 3-5. Priority Setting and Goal on Safe Community Songpa | 20 >> CHAPTER4 Indicators for International Safe Community 4-1. Indicator 1. | 22 4-2. Indicator 2. | 28 4-3. Indicator 3. | 49 4-4. Indicator 4. | 55 4-5. Indicator 5. | 59 4-6. Indicator 6. | 64 >> CHAPTER5 Ongoing and long-term perspective on Safe Community Songpa 5-1. A direction for Safe Community Songpa | 67 5-2. Ongoing development strategy for Safe Community Songpa | 68 5-3. Further perspective | 69 Introduction of Songpa District >> CHAPTER 1 1Introduction of Songpa District CHAPTER>> 1-1. Location and Climate Songpa District is the town in Seoul City of the Republic of Korea. It is located in the south of the Han River (East longitude : 127°; North latitude : 37°), adjacent to Gangnam district, Gangdong district, Seongnam City and Hanam City. With its four distinctive seasons, its climate is characterized with hot and humid in the summer and cold and dry in the winter. its average temperature for the year is 12.1C°, which is lower than the nation-wide average 13.06C°. Annual precipitation is 1,682mm, mostly in summer and fall, influenced twice or three times by the tropical cyclone and typhoon from the south east of the North Pacific. Figure 1-1 _ Location of Songpa District 5 Safe Community 2008 SONGPA 1-2. Size, Population, Housings The geographical size of Songpa District is 33.89㎢, where 623,876 residents in 237,517 households live. 18,408 people live per ㎢, the residential areas account for 21.15㎢(62.4%), commercial areas for 1.84㎢(5.4%) and green spaces account for 10.9㎢(32.2%). The number of houses is 145,719 in total, among which the apartments account for 52.9%(77.094 households) and the town houses and multi-family houses account for 31.2%(45,573 households). It means that multi-types of house account for 84.1% of the entire houses. Table 1-1 Population by the age in Songpa District Age Population Male Female % Total 623,876 307,693 316,183 100 0 ~ 9 58,712 30,438 28,274 10.5 10 ~ 19 87,145 45,452 41,693 13.8 20 ~ 29 108,384 52,801 55,583 17.1 30 ~ 39 112,873 53,379 59,494 18.1 40 ~ 49 109,535 52,771 56,764 17.3 50 ~ 59 82,499 40,820 41,679 13.2 60 ~ 69 40,168 20,483 19,685 6.3 70 ~ 79 17,496 6,880 10,616 2.6 80~ 7,144 2,511 4,633 1.1 1-3. Economic, educational, cultural and other facilities As of January 2007, the number of program in Songpa District is 40,311 with 215,629 employees, and the industry is composed of wholesalers/retailers, services, lodging/food, construction, manufacturers, education services, health and social welfare. Among which, the wholesalers/retailers account for 20.3%, with the largest portion, and then service industry accounts for 16.8% with the second portion. Songpa District is a transportation hub easily accessible from all directions and conveniently located near the agricultural and fisheries wholesale market and the Lotte World. Now it will take its best leap since the Seoul Olympic games, because Seoul Southeast Region Distribution Complex is under construction and the up-to- 6 Introduction of Songpa District >> CHAPTER 1 date industrial complex in Munjeong District and the Songpa New Town and the Geoyeo/Macheon are expected to be developed. Songpa District is well equipped with cultural and social welfare infrastructures including Seoul Norimadang, Songpa Culture & Arts Center, Mongchon Museum of History, Songpa Public Library and Soma Museum of Fine Arts. The Jamsil Seoul Olympic Stadium and the Olympic Parks are lined with gymnasium facilities, and the Soma Figure 1-2 _ Hanseong Baekje Cultural Festival Museum of Fine Arts often hold the worldwide and large-scale cultural projects. 96 public agencies are located including the police stations, Office of Education, and Seoul Olympic Sports Promotion Foundation, and that 209 social welfare facilities include Songpa Women’s Cultural Center and the Youth Center. In addition, Asan Medical Center, the largest in the East is located, as well as 850 other medical institutions and 73 schools. As the historic site, Songpa District has the cultural heritages such as Pungnap Toseong; Seokchon-dong Ancient Baekje-era Stone Mound Tombs; Bangi-dong Ancient Baekje-era Tombs; Mongchon Toseong(Mud Rampart), and famous for Songpa Sandaenori or Songpa Daribalgi. Especially, ‘Hanseong Baekje Cultural Festival’ highlights the history and culture of those eras, in which the central government-led 54 large scale cultural festivals are included and more than 1 million participants enjoy. Figure 1-3 _ Songpa Sandae Nori (Masked Dance) 7 Safe Community 2008 SONGPA 1-4. District office status Administrative organization : 5-offices 1 director system; 28 divisions; 28 buildings; 1 Community health center(3 departments), 1 Council Secretariat Staff : 1,467(District office: 1,014, Community health center: 88 buildings and 337 staff, Council Secretariat : 28) Financial size : KR 326,802 million won(General: 295,208 million won, Special: 31,594 million won) 1-5. Symbol of Songpa District Symbol mark The oval meaning the olympic city is transformed to express the pine tree, the District symbol tree, containing the environmental message to clean and good to live as well as the dynamic and prosperous image. Sori It means Songpa District as young and lively autonomous district opening the future of Seoul in 21C. District Tree Pine tree District Flower Forsythia District Bird Dove 8 Overview of Safe Community Songpa >> CHAPTER 2 Overview of Safe Community 2Songpa CHAPTER>> 2-1. Background Scientific technology and industry development have recently reduced the birth rate and morbidity rate, increasing life expectancy. In addition, there is more rising interest on the injuries from non-infectious disease, chronic degenerative diseases, road traffic injuries, fall and suicide rather than on the infectious disease in the past. The health and safety intended through injury prevention, are basic human rights, which are determined by the interaction between the individual and environment. Therefore, interest on social and environmental impact and social Community approach are recently considered as effective alternatives, rather than the individual injury prevention and safety promotion projects in the past.