Suwon Mayor Yeom Tae-young: "Let us make Suwon a trusted safe city"

[Suwon Ilbo=Reporter Kang Han-seo] Suwon Mayor Yeom Tae-young requested on the 28th that members of the Suwon Integrated Civil Defense Conference "play their role so that citizens can believe that Suwon is a 'safe city.'"

Mayor Yeom stated at the "2019 Q2 Suwon Integrated Civil Defense Conference" held at the City Hall Disaster and Safety Control Center: "The Eulji Taegeuk Exercise will serve as an opportunity to strengthen Suwon's crisis response capacity." He added, "Let us thoroughly verify methods to handle disaster situations and gaps in training manuals, and examine the roles of each institution and cooperation systems."

He continued, "If the public and private sectors join hands to conduct systematic training to prepare for disaster situations, we can overcome crisis situations well. When large-scale disasters like the forest fires in Gangwon Province occur, we can minimize damage only when all regions and institutions put aside their differences and unite their efforts."

The conference, attended by Mayor Yeom Tae-young, who chairs the Integrated Civil Defense Conference, and approximately 20 members of the public-private-military-police integrated civil defense council, proceeded with ▲ 2019 Eulji Taegeuk Exercise briefing ▲ National security video screening ▲ Open discussion.

The city has been conducting the "2019 Eulji Taegeuk Exercise" since the 27th. This four-day exercise, which runs until the 30th, involves approximately 600 personnel from 21 institutions.

The "Eulji Taegeuk Exercise" is divided into "national crisis response exercises" to address earthquakes and terrorism, and "wartime preparedness exercises" that simulate war situations.

The city will conduct integrated response training applying task execution manuals in both national crisis response exercises and wartime preparedness exercises.