Busan Metropolitan City (Mayor Park Heong-joon) announced that it will conduct the “2025 Ulchi Exercise” over a period of four days from August 18 to 21, starting with the “2025 Ulchi Exercise Integrated Defense Council” to be held today (14th) at 10 a.m. in the 7th-floor video conference room of City Hall.
The Busan Metropolitan City Integrated Defense Council meeting will be chaired by Mayor Park Heong-joon and attended by council members, as well as about 40 officials from the public, private, military, police, and fire sectors. The agenda will include ▲opening remarks ▲reports on current issues by each agency ▲hearing opinions from members.
The Ulchi Exercise is a nationwide emergency preparedness drill in which all government agencies, public institutions, and organizations participate. Its goals are to ▲support military operations ▲maintain government functions ▲ensure the stability of citizens’ daily lives in the event of war, armed conflict, or a comparable national emergency.
This year’s Ulchi Exercise will feature joint participation by the public, private, military, police, and fire sectors in ▲wartime decision-making procedure drills ▲tabletop exercises ▲civil defense evacuation drills (August 20) ▲joint training with relevant organizations ▲emergency assembly of all public officials, verifying the effectiveness of the Chungmu Plan and establishing a perfect emergency readiness posture.
In particular, on the third day of the Ulchi Exercise, August 20, at 2 p.m., a civil defense drill to prepare for an air raid will be conducted without separate vehicle movement control. At the same time, all 12 fire stations in Busan will conduct “Make Way for Fire Trucks and Ambulances” drills, for which citizens’ active cooperation is requested.
Mayor Park Heong-joon is expected to say, “The Ulchi Exercise is an essential drill to acquire the emergency readiness capabilities that can operate in real situations in response to increasingly complex security threats. Through this exercise, we will inspect our city’s emergency readiness posture and further strengthen our crisis response capabilities.”
He will also emphasize, “I hope this will be an opportunity for citizens to recognize the importance of the Ulchi Exercise, and I ask that when you see a fire truck or ambulance while driving, you yield to support the drill.”
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