Division of Smart Cities

Smart city is a sustainable city equipped with an autonomous problem-solving ability that provides advanced urban services based on the urban infrastructure built through application of ICT and cutting-edge technologies to the city planning and design. Smart city is a national future industry platform on which new industries are created as it improves sustainability of the city as well as the city’s competitiveness and citizens’ quality of life using innovative technologies in the Fourth Industrial Revolution era.

As one of the eight core projects under the four policy directions according to the current government’s innovation and power investment plan, smart city is an area that is in keen need of active talents to address various issues ranging from service, urban planning and infrastructure to safety, energy, environment and governance in addition to the convergence of big data, artificial intelligence (AI), information and communications technology (ICT) and Internet of things (IoT). Escaping from the limited and superficial educational programs in the past, a smart city education program considering domestic and international smart city policies and demands is required to develop human resources who are capable of meeting the future industry demand.

The School of Smart Cities was opened in March 2021 as the first undergraduate course in Korea with a goal to foster elite talents to lead smart city industry, a core platform of the Fourth Industrial Revolution. The students of the School of Smart Cities will develop into professional convergence-type talents who will contribute to smart city policy development at the same time as planing, designing, installing and operating advanced smart cities and facilities according to the ICT development, and also play the role to lead global restructuring and overseas entry by Korea’s smart city industry.