Welcome Message

Hello and welcome to Education and Research Center for
ICT Integrated Safe Ocean Smart Cities (I-SOC) at Dong-A University

Ocean cities in Korea have been threatened by dangerous and unacceptable levels of risk from multi-disaster components, including natural ocean disasters (typhoon, earthquakes, tsunami, etc.), coastal deterioration factors (chloride and sulfate ions), and reclamation grounds. Particularly, Busan city has the most concentrated high-rise buildings and long-span bridges. In addition, the world’s third largest port of transhipment, approximately 50% of the nuclear power plants in Korea, and large scale reclamation grounds are located in Busan.

Recently, disasters and accidents such as earthquake, typhoons, and sinkholes have raised concerns about the safety of the people. However, the individual factor-based fundamental solution cannot be solved through urban disaster management and maintenance. In the era of the 4th Industrial Revolution, the shift of innovative paradigm is required to manage multi-disasters in ocean cities.

I-SOC was selected as one of the recipients of the BK21 Four Program (Phase 4 of Brain Korea21) supported by the Korean Ministry of Education (Sep 2020 ~ Aug 2027). By utilizing advanced ICT technologies, we are planning to provide disaster prevention solutions for ocean cities that guarantee safe and healthy life by establishing an education and research center for disaster prevention experts

                      Director    Jurng-Jae Yee