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Busan Metropolitan City Selected as the Only Local Government in the Southeastern Region for the Ministry of Science and ICT’s “Data Safe Zone Conversion Designation Contest Project”

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Busan Metropolitan City, led by Acting Mayor Kim Kyung-duk, announced that it has been selected as the only local government in the southeastern region for the “Data Safe Zone Conversion Designation Contest Project” organized by the Ministry of Science and ICT and the Korea Data Agency.

A total of five institutions were selected for the project, including Busan Metropolitan City, Busan Techno Park, Korea Western Power Co., Ltd., Korea Credit Guarantee Fund, Kangwon National University Industry-Academic Cooperation Foundation, and the Artificial Intelligence Industry Convergence Business Group.

Each designated institution will receive up to KRW 200 million in national funding. As the only local government selected in the southeastern region, Busan Metropolitan City is expected to serve as a key hub for revitalizing the regional data industry.

Following its selection for the project, Busan Metropolitan City and Busan Techno Park will begin full-scale preparations to convert the “Data Open Lab,” currently operated at the Busan Big Data Innovation Center, into a nationally designated Data Safe Zone.

A Data Safe Zone is a secure data utilization space designated to enable the safe analysis and use of non-open data.

Currently located in Centum City, Haeundae-gu, the Data Open Lab has provided an environment for the secure analysis of both public and private non-open data since opening in August 2022.

The facility currently provides 240 types of data across six sectors, including transportation, population, real estate, tourism, consumption, and finance, contributing to the establishment of a regional data utilization foundation.

In addition, Busan Metropolitan City plans to establish an integrated full-cycle data utilization system connecting “open data, pseudonymized data, and non-open data” by linking the Busan Big Data Innovation Center, which promotes the regional data ecosystem, and the Busan Pseudonymized Information Utilization Support Center, which supports the secure combination and use of privacy-based data, with the Data Safe Zone.

Meanwhile, Busan Metropolitan City signed a memorandum of understanding with the Korea Data Agency yesterday (May 11) to establish a cooperative foundation for promoting the project.

The city also plans to proceed without disruption on follow-up procedures aimed at passing the Data Safe Zone designation review in the second half of the year, including the purchase of security equipment, relocation and improvement of facilities, and review of designation application documents.

Kim Dong-hyun, Director General of the Future Technology Strategy Bureau at Busan Metropolitan City, stated, “Through our selection for this contest project, we have proactively secured the foundation for designation as a Data Safe Zone,” adding, “We will do our utmost to make Busan a leading data utilization hub representing the southeastern region.”