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"Public Safety Is the Foundation of Every Policy": Busan Metropolitan City Mobilizes All Resources for the 21st Busan Fireworks Festival

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Busan Metropolitan City (Mayor Chun Jae-soo) announced that it will hold the 2nd Busan Metropolitan City Safety Management Committee Meeting of 2026 (hereinafter referred to as the Safety Management Committee) today (October 27).

The meeting has been organized to conduct a final comprehensive review of the safety management system for the 21st Busan Fireworks Festival, scheduled to take place on November 7 in and around Gwangalli Beach, Igidae, and Dongbaekseom Island. More than one million people are expected to attend the large-scale event.

Approximately 40 Safety Management Committee members, including Committee Chair and Mayor Chun Jae-soo and heads of agencies responsible for disaster management in the Busan area, along with private-sector explosives experts, will attend the meeting. Participants will closely examine the proposed safety management plan for the 21st Busan Fireworks Festival and further strengthen cooperation among relevant agencies.

In preparation for the meeting, the city has held a series of preliminary inspection meetings with relevant working-level officials since September. On October 22, it also convened a Regional Safety Council meeting chaired by the Vice Mayor for Administrative Affairs to thoroughly examine pedestrian movement routes, evacuation routes, and emergency response systems for medical services, firefighting, and maritime safety.

Based on these reviews, the city has been making every effort to ensure a safe festival by supplementing safety management measures in each area and strengthening coordination among relevant agencies.

At the upcoming meeting, the committee will review the full range of safety measures by category, including the operation of an integrated situation room, spectator safety, public transportation, firefighting, and maritime safety management.

Given the large crowds expected at the event, the city will deploy the largest workforce in the festival's history. Approximately 7,000 personnel responsible for safety management and maintaining public order, including some 1,921 city employees, will be stationed at the event sites.

The city will monitor live footage from closed-circuit television (CCTV) cameras installed throughout the event venues and manage spectator movement in key areas, including the vicinity of Gwangalli Beach, Geumnyeonsan Mountain, Waterfront Park, Yongho Starlight Park, Igidae Eoullimadang, and Dongbaekseom Island.

In particular, the committee will discuss revisions to the proposed safety management plan addressing crowd congestion resulting from the expansion of paid seating, an issue raised at the Regional Safety Council meeting held on October 22. These discussions are expected to contribute significantly to ensuring the safety of the event.

At the meeting, Mayor Chun Jae-soo is expected to state, "Public safety is the foundation of every policy. Accident prevention and on-site emergency response must be managed rigorously, starting with the fundamentals, to ensure that there is absolutely no room for error."

He will also urge all relevant agencies, saying, "I ask every agency involved to remain vigilant at every moment and do its utmost in responding to situations on the ground until every citizen has returned home safely."