'Eliminating Safety Blind Spots for Foreigners'... Jeonnam Provincial Police Commission Launches Full-Scale 'Safe Jeonnam App' Service

Provided by the Jeonnam Provincial Police Commission. According to the Jeonnam Provincial Police Commission, the 'Safe Jeonnam app' was developed with a total project cost of 147 million KRW to address safety gaps for foreigners living in Jeonnam and to help them overcome language barriers in emergencies.
The Jeonnam Information & Culture Industry Promotion Agency and app developer Daonplace participated in the project. After design and verification stages, the app was completed as a practical platform reflecting real feedback from foreign users.
The app supports six languages most commonly spoken by 70% of foreigners in Jeonnam—English, Chinese, Vietnamese, Uzbek, Cambodian, and Nepali. Key features include one-touch emergency reporting to 112 and 119, information on public safety, traffic, and daily life, real-time translation and push notifications for disaster and safety alerts, community functions by nationality, and information on support agencies, weather, and exchange rates.
Foreign residents in Jeonnam can access essential information for daily safety—such as public safety, traffic, weather, and exchange rates—in multiple languages, along with disaster and safety alerts. They can also communicate in their native language through community boards, creating an environment where foreigners can actively participate in local safety.
Additionally, the administrator page enables multilingual content registration, statistical analysis, and policy feedback management, ensuring that both local residents and foreign users receive safety information quickly and accurately. To minimize translation errors, the app’s quality was enhanced by operating language-specific translation review teams in cooperation with the Jeonnam Immigration and Foreign Residents Support Center.
The 'Safe Jeonnam app' is available for download on the Google Play Store.
The Jeonnam Provincial Police Commission plans to promote the app by adding QR codes to its website and expanding the service to 22 cities and counties in collaboration with related organizations.
Chairperson Soon Kwan Jeong stated, "The 'Safe Jeonnam app' is a practical public safety service that helps foreigners respond quickly to disasters or crimes without language barriers.
Moving forward, we will further refine safety policies for residents based on usage data and establish a safe and warm Jeonnam-style autonomous policing system.
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Provided by the Jeonnam Provincial Police Commission. According to the Jeonnam Provincial Police Commission, the 'Safe Jeonnam app' was developed with a total project cost of 147 million KRW to address safety gaps for foreigners living in Jeonnam and to help them overcome language barriers in emergencies.
hwangtae@fnnews.com Hwang Tae-jong Reporter