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“No Compromise on Safety” Busan Metropolitan City Mobilizes All Resources to Ensure Safety During the 20th Busan Fireworks Festival

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Busan Metropolitan City (Mayor Park Heong-joon) announced that it would hold the 2nd Busan Metropolitan City Safety Management Committee Meeting 2025 at 9:00 a.m. today (Nov. 4).
This meeting was organized to conduct a final review of the comprehensive safety management system for the 20th Busan Fireworks Festival, which will take place on November 15 around Gwangalli Beach, Igidae, and Dongbaekseom, and is expected to attract over one million visitors.

Chaired by Mayor Park Heong-joon, the Safety Management Committee brought together around 40 members, including heads of disaster management agencies in the Busan area and private pyrotechnics experts, to meticulously examine the draft safety management plan for the festival and strengthen interagency cooperation.

Ahead of this meeting, the City had been holding pre-inspection meetings with relevant working-level officials since September and convened a Regional Safety Council chaired by the Vice Mayor for Administrative Affairs on October 30 to thoroughly review pedestrian routes, evacuation paths, and medical, firefighting, and maritime response systems.

Through these efforts, the City has refined its response system for each stage of the event, aiming to achieve the goal of a “perfectly safe festival with zero accidents.”

The meeting reviewed the overall measures for each category, including the operation of the integrated situation room, crowd safety, public transportation, firefighting, and maritime safety management.

The draft safety management plan also includes strengthened crowd control measures, such as direct hotline operations and dedicated group communication channels, implementation of a capacity limit system on the beach and coastal road, and installation of safety fences along the beach to prevent crowd surges.

Given that the G-STAR 2025 gaming exhibition (Nov. 13–16) at BEXCO overlaps with the festival period, the City plans to deploy police forces and safety personnel strategically at major transit hubs such as Suyeong Station Transfer Center to minimize congestion.

Furthermore, in consideration of the large number of international visitors, multilingual (including English) information signs will be installed in key areas of the venue and around Suyeong Station Transfer Center, and safety guidance for foreign visitors will be enhanced to meet international event standards.

The City also supplemented the safety management plan to include response procedures for unauthorized drones, as discussed during the Regional Safety Council held on October 30, which is expected to significantly contribute to ensuring overall event safety.

During the meeting, Mayor Park Heong-joon reiterated, “The safety of our citizens is a non-negotiable value. We must prepare so thoroughly that it might seem excessive. Each agency must remain vigilant and do its utmost—not only until the festival ends but until all citizens have safely returned home.”