uCity Projects in Korea

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u-City Projects in Korea
Project Lead J. S. Nam Date Jan. 31,
2006 Organization u-City Forum Presenter
GeunHo Lee Country S. Korea
Email geunholee_at_korea.com Web site
www.ubicity.org
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Background

• Geographic
• S. Korea is located in crossroads of east
  north Asia, connecting the China and Japan. Total
  area is 98,480 sq km and total population is 48
  M.
• Economic
• GDP 925 B (2004), GDP - per capita19,200
  (2004)
• ICT/GDP 14, Construction/GDP 17
• Regulatory
• Strong government lead MIC (Ministry of
  Information Communication)
• Community
• 9 provinces and 7 metropolitan
  citiesKyonggi, SN Choogchung, SN Kyongsang,
  SN Cholla, Kangwon, cheju
• Seoul, Incheon, Taejon, Taegu, Pusan,
  Kwangju, Ulsan
• IT readiness
• S. Korea is the world's most wired nation
  with 35 M mobile phone subscribers . Many
  households have broadband internet speeds of 20
  Mbps or higher.

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Project History

• u-City(ubiquitous ICT city) is the "Korea's 21C
  ICT mediated City", in which advanced ICT infra
  and ubiquitous information services are
  intrageted into the city space providing high
  convience and quility for everyday city life,
  highly secured and well managed city environment,
  and creation of new business.
• The u-City Forum is a non-profit organization
  founded in May. 2005, fostering the u-City
  proliferation project as a Koreas future
  economic growth strategy.
• The major members of the forum are cental local
  government including MIC, MCT, Incheon,
  Kyonggi-Do, city developers such as the Korea
  Land Corp. and Korea Housing Corp., and high-tech
  heavyweights such as KT, SKT, Samsung, LG.

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Mission Objectives

• The main mission of the u-City Forum is to
  concentrate the full effort of allied industry,
  government and civil experts for the development
  of u-City application service models, related
  technology, and research for related regulations.

• The objectives of the u-City are creating ICT
  converged construction industries and securing
  the growth phase of ICT industry by maximizing
  the synergy effect between the world top level
  ICT infrastructure and the most active city
  construction industry in Korea.

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u-City under development
Seoul
Paju
Suwon/Yongin
Incheon
Busan
Cheju
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Business Model Yongin in Kyonggi Province

• 2,146 sq km and total population of 30 K digital
  model town in the Heungdeok district will be
  complete by 2008.
• The FTTH Network Infrastructure
• ITS (intelligent transportation system)
• City Information Management Center
• - Digital Governement Services
• - Digital Home Services
• Public (Korea Land Corp.) - Private (KT)
  partnership

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Business Model Sangam DMC in Seoul

• 57,000 sq km and total population of 30 K digital
  media model town in the Sangam Dong will be
  complete by 2010.
• Broadband Network Infrastructure
• Digital Media Street
• - Exp. Lab for digital media technology
• Intelligent Building Complex
• Local (Seoul) and Central governmant (MIC)
  partnership

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Business Model Songdo in Incheon

• 209,000 sq km and total population of 200 K
  ubiquitous computing model town in the songdo
  district will be completed by 2014.
• City Service Management Center
• - Digital Office Services
• - Digital Home Services
• Intelligent Building Complex
• Private (NSC) - Private (LG CNS) partnership

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Business Model Busan

• Busan, the nation's largest port city, will
  emerge as the world's first city with an
  ubiquitous wireless network by launching the mega
  project over the next 5 years
• To make as a logistics hub of Northeast Asia, it
  is to build a "u-Port" in Busan harbor providing
  cargo information in real time utilizing RFID
  technology
• u-Trafic trafic, tourism and geography
  information
• Public (Busan City) - Private (KT) partnership

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Project Economics

• Cost structure
• Private sector (e.g. KT) provide the initial
  broadband network cost, with zero capital
  commitment from the public sector(e.g. korea land
  corporation) on a long term contract basis for
  providing services.
• Investment Sources/ Funding Sources
• Sangam total 0.4 B from Seoul City and
  other public and private
• investment
• Songdo total 1 B from the NSC LG CNS
• Busan total 1 B from Busan City KT
  other private investment
• Revenue Source/ Return on Investment
• advanced real estate selling
• operatioanl income for commercial building
• information service charges

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Applications
City Management Center
Source Samsung Electronics DSC
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u-City Architecture
Technology
BcN
WSN
IPv6
RFID
DMB
DTV
W-CDMA
WiRro
VoIP
Telematics
Home Net
IT SoC
Contents
Mobilr
Robot
SW
DTV
post-PC
u-City Service
Edu Service
Health Service
Traffic Service
Parking Mag
Facility Mag
Emer- gency
Home
APT
Port
W-House
School
Hospital
Police/Fire
park
Car
P-Trans
D-TV
M-Dvice
Mall
Market
Convention
Biz Centr
Reginal Zone Infra
Residential
Logostics
Education/ Hospital
Public
Transportation
Telcom/ Brodcast
Commerce
Business
ICT Infra
City Infra
Social Infra
Road/Port
Water/Gas
Electricity/Telcom
Bridge
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Network Service SchematicResidential Area
remote control
CDMA WiBro
Video phone
WDM-PON OLT
Home Gateway IP STB
ONT
Tele-health
IP TV
BcN
community information
Internet
App. Server
Resigential Hub
Backbone
Sun Hub
WirelessAP
Kornet
Broadcasting Net.
Automation
Encoder
Server
home network
City Infor Mag. Center
Security
Source KT
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Network Service SchematicCommercial Building
Enterprise
W-Lan

Security
??
TGW
IP-PBX
PC
BcN back born
Video phone
IBS building
Kornet

cellular WiBro
Metro-Ethernet
IP/WDM
(MSS)
(MSS)
DWDM/OBS
DWDM/OBS
(MSPP)
(MSPP)
DWDM/OXC
?? ?? 1 ?? ??
IBS building complex
Source KT
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Network Service SchematicTransportation
Car Telemetry Telecommand
Traffic Contol Center.
DB
Service 1
DB
Web Center
BcN Network
Service 1
DMB Center

DSRC(ETC/EFC/BIS/ ATIS/CVO)
Cellular, WiBro Base Station
Rouler n-1
Router n
Router 1
Router 2
Source KT
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Network Service SchematicCitywide Area
Embedded Pipe
monitoring
City mag. center
WiFi
media board

server
HOT SPOT ZONE
WiBro
Voice Info
LBS
Environmental pollution
Bridge
River level
RFID Wireless sensors
Source KT
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Deployment

• Sangam
• 2005 1 stage DMC - digital media Street
• 2008 2 stage DMC - NuriTcum Square
• 2010 Full deployment
• Songdo
• 2005 ISP (Information Strategy Planning)
• 2006-2008 Demo House, City Service Management
  Center,
• Broadband Networks, Early
  Services
• 2009-2014 Full deployment

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Impact Analysis
Fostering the u-City project as korea's future
ICT Strategy u-Korea Vision
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Lessons Learned Next Steps

• ICT became the KSF for Compatitive Advantage in
  new city development.
• Public-Private, Public-Public, Private-Private
  partnership is tested.
• Convergence in Real Estate ICT Service Value
• Standard Framwork for u-City Development is
  needed for global deployment of u-City

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Future?
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Additional Information

• Digiens_at_u-City http//digiens.blogspot.com
• u-City Forum http//www.ubicity.org
• u-City_at_u-Cinvergence http//www.seri.org/technob
  iz
• Ubiquitous Life http//kr.blog.yahoo.com/ghleebl
  og
• Anthony Townsand http//urban.blogs.com/research
  
• IFEZA http//www.ifez.go.kr/eng/sub4/a_body.asp
• Seoul DMC http//dmc.seoul.go.kr/english/index.j
  sp

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