Incheon's Yeonsu-gu District (Mayor Lee Jae-ho) will make drones a regular tool for field administration. The district is expanding drone use to property tax field surveys, enforcement against illegal buildings and inspections of disaster sites. It will also hold a total of 46 hands-on training sessions through the end of November for officials who operate drones, to build their skills.
 [The Korean Today] Yeonsu-gu drone administration © Reporter Kim Mi-hee |
The expansion takes an approach that has already proved effective in some tasks and extends it across the administration. Until now, the district has flown drones over sites that are hard for staff to enter and check in person. Typical examples include verifying properties subject to property tax and inspecting businesses that generate fugitive dust, which has helped the district handle work more efficiently.
Nine departments in Yeonsu-gu currently use drones in their work. In the tax area, the Tax Division and the Songdo Tax Division use drones for property tax field surveys. The Architecture Division deploys drones to detect illegal buildings, while the Environmental Conservation Division and the Songdo Living Support Division use them to inspect businesses that generate fugitive dust.
Drones are also widely used in management and safety. The Parks and Green Spaces Division and the Songdo Urban Management Division use drones to manage parks and green spaces, and the Finance and Accounting Division uses them to manage public property. The Safety Management Division operates drones to inspect disaster sites. In effect, drones have become common equipment across tasks as different as taxation, building, environment, green spaces, property and safety.
The training focuses on officials in charge at departments that use drones. It combines practice at the Seunggicheon drone training field with hands-on exercises at actual work sites, with a total of 46 sessions scheduled through the end of November. Because the district is not stopping at acquiring equipment but is also raising the proficiency of the staff who operate it, the training can be seen as groundwork for firmly establishing drone administration in the field.
The effort also touches residents' daily lives. Enforcement against illegal buildings, inspections of fugitive dust sites and checks of disaster sites directly affect the residential environment and safety. Being able to quickly check hard-to-reach places from the air is expected to speed up field responses and help close gaps in managing the living environment.
"Drones are a practical administrative tool that allows us to check hard-to-access sites more quickly," Yeonsu-gu Mayor Lee Jae-ho said. "Through this training, we will strengthen the operational capabilities of officials in charge and expand use tailored to each department's work."
"We will continue to actively use drones in field-oriented administration to raise work efficiency and translate it into administrative services residents can feel," Lee added. As the district broadens drone use to suit each department's work, attention is on whether drones will become standard equipment for Yeonsu-gu's field administration.
[ Reporter Kim Mi-hee: incheonsouth@thekoreantoday.com ]
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