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Busan's 16 District CCTV Integrated Control Centres

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✎ Corrected 27 Aug 2026 Publication date recorded for 6 sources. What changed →

There is no Busan control centre. There are sixteen, one per district, built between 2011 and 2017: 337 staff watching 12,759 cameras, with no arrest or response-time evaluation ever published.

Outcome🔄 Ongoing
Evidence🏛️ Official
what does this mean?The strongest source is the operator's or the city's own reporting — an official report, dataset or press release. It grades who did the looking — not how well the project went. All four grades →
Run byBusan Metropolitan City with its 16 gu and gun district governments
Scale🏙️ City-wide
CostKRW 19.24bn (2011-2017 build-out)
FundingNational interior-ministry control-centre programme plus city, district and education-office budgets

Part of 1001 Smart Cities — 1,167 documented projects · 🏙️ 9 more in Busan · 🛡️ Safety & security guide · 🏛️ Governance projects

Between 2011 and 2017 Busan built a CCTV integrated control centre in each of its 16 districts and counties, pooling camera feeds that had been run separately for crime prevention, school safety, fire watch and traffic enforcement. The programme started with four districts and finished in Dongnae in December 2017 at a cost of 19.24 billion won; the city then counted 337 monitoring staff watching 12,759 cameras. Police work from situation rooms inside the centres. Busan has published no arrest or response-time evaluation, and nationally the cameras-per-operator load has climbed far past the 2013 guideline of roughly 50.

Live 📅 since 2011

📊 Impact

The build-out cost 19.24 billion won and left 337 monitoring staff watching 12,759 cameras across sixteen district centres. No arrest, crime or response-time evaluation has been published for any of them. The one figure that has moved since is the load: Korean reporting in March 2025 put a single operator on 477 cameras, against a 2013 national guideline of roughly 50.

🎓 Lesson

A city control centre can turn out to be sixteen district ones. Check the administrative level before trusting a headline camera count — and check the second denominator too, because the number that grew after the ribbon-cutting was cameras, not operators.

🏛️ GovernanceSafety & securitySensors & IoTTraffic management

Sources

↗ Busan Metropolitan City news — all 16 district control centres complete (20 Dec 2017)The city's own announcement that all sixteen district centres were complete. No publication date is recorded: the page did not answer when this entry was checked.
↗ Pressian — Busan completes district control centres (14 Dec 2017)Independent press corroboration of completion across all 16 districts, the roughly 19.2 billion won cost, 337 operators and about 12,700 cameras.
↗ Kwon and Seo — case study on building Busan's CCTV integrated control centre (KCI, 2011)A 2011 Korean journal case study of the construction of the integrated control centre. The page states no publication date.
↗ Busan Dong-gu district office — CCTV integrated control centrePublished 3 July 2017A district office page describing its own centre.
↗ MoneyToday — one operator watching 477 cameras (10 Mar 2025)Counterweight, national in scope: cameras per operator rose from 379 in 2022 to 477 in 2024 against a 2013 government recommendation of about 50, and control-room staff report that intelligent CCTV rarely flags incidents such as a person collapsing.
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↗ Busan Metropolitan City — CCTV installation status disclosureThe city's published record of installed cameras. No publication date is recorded: the page did not answer when this entry was checked.

📅 How old is the evidence?

Two clocks, kept apart: when this entry’s sources were published, and what has happened to its record in the atlas. Documented span: since 2011. 3 of 6 sources carry a publication date, from 3 July 2017 to 10 March 2025.

When the sources were published

  1. Busan Dong-gu District Office · city governmentBusan Dong-gu district office — CCTV integrated control centre
  2. Pressian · pressPressian — Busan completes district control centres (14 Dec 2017)
  3. MoneyToday · pressMoneyToday — one operator watching 477 cameras (10 Mar 2025)

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What happened to this record

  1. Sources last read
  2. Publication date recorded for 6 sources
  3. Entered the record

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Show your work What this page rests on and what it can’t tell you · all 7 claims with their sources · the forensic record

Evidence Passport · public beta 7 addressable claims, 6 source dossiers, one permanent baseline. The passport is unreviewed — an AI-assisted structural migration, not a human or expert endorsement. Every revision keeps a permanent copy under revision history.

Inspect the claims, one by one — verbatim text, sources and caveats for all 7

The text below is copied verbatim from the published record. Each claim names the source dossiers that carry it; caveats stay attached to the claim they qualify.

Claim 1 clm-79ca262ac2340486 quantitative
Between 2011 and 2017 Busan built a CCTV integrated control centre in each of its 16 districts and counties, pooling camera feeds that had been run separately for crime prevention, school safety, fire watch and traffic enforcement
Published field
snippet · verbatim
Mapping
mapped · no interpretation or interpolation added by this passport
What the mapping says
The city announcement and the December 2017 press report describe the completion of integrated control centres in all sixteen gu and gun, bringing together camera feeds previously operated separately; the 2011 case study documents the construction of the first centre.
Caveat
No claim-specific caveat recorded

Sources carrying this claim

  1. Busan Metropolitan City news — all 16 district control centres complete (20 Dec 2017)
  2. Pressian — Busan completes district control centres (14 Dec 2017)
  3. Kwon and Seo — case study on building Busan's CCTV integrated control centre (KCI, 2011)
Claim 2 clm-4bed8a35b3aa39d0 quantitative
The programme started with four districts and finished in Dongnae in December 2017 at a cost of 19.24 billion won; the city then counted 337 monitoring staff watching 12,759 cameras
Published field
snippet · verbatim
Mapping
mapped · no interpretation or interpolation added by this passport
What the mapping says
The city announcement and the press report give the completion in Dongnae in December 2017, the total cost of 19.24 billion won, and the staffing and camera counts at that point.
Caveat
No claim-specific caveat recorded

Sources carrying this claim

  1. Busan Metropolitan City news — all 16 district control centres complete (20 Dec 2017)
  2. Pressian — Busan completes district control centres (14 Dec 2017)
  3. Busan Metropolitan City — CCTV installation status disclosure
Claim 3 clm-e5e54e0584780c4c descriptive
Police work from situation rooms inside the centres
Published field
snippet · verbatim
Mapping
mapped · no interpretation or interpolation added by this passport
What the mapping says
The press report and the district office page describe police situation rooms located inside the integrated control centres.
Caveat
No claim-specific caveat recorded

Sources carrying this claim

  1. Pressian — Busan completes district control centres (14 Dec 2017)
  2. Busan Dong-gu district office — CCTV integrated control centre
Claim 4 clm-2981481ced2dbcff quantitative
The build-out cost 19.24 billion won and left 337 monitoring staff watching 12,759 cameras across sixteen district centres
Published field
impact · verbatim
Mapping
mapped · no interpretation or interpolation added by this passport
What the mapping says
Same figures as the snippet: total cost, staff and cameras at completion.
Caveat
No claim-specific caveat recorded

Sources carrying this claim

  1. Busan Metropolitan City news — all 16 district control centres complete (20 Dec 2017)
  2. Pressian — Busan completes district control centres (14 Dec 2017)
  3. Busan Metropolitan City — CCTV installation status disclosure
Claim 5 clm-6190be9b582c7311 descriptive
No arrest, crime or response-time evaluation has been published for any of them
Published field
impact · verbatim
Mapping
mapped · no interpretation or interpolation added by this passport
What the mapping says
None of the city, district or press sources reports arrests, crime change or response times attributable to the centres; they report construction, cost, staffing and camera counts.
Caveat
No claim-specific caveat recorded

Sources carrying this claim

  1. Busan Metropolitan City news — all 16 district control centres complete (20 Dec 2017)
  2. Pressian — Busan completes district control centres (14 Dec 2017)
  3. Busan Dong-gu district office — CCTV integrated control centre
  4. Busan Metropolitan City — CCTV installation status disclosure
Claim 6 clm-1ac392cbc2e217e7 quantitative
Korean reporting in March 2025 put a single operator on 477 cameras, against a 2013 national guideline of roughly 50
Published field
impact · verbatim
Mapping
mapped · no interpretation or interpolation added by this passport
What the mapping says
The March 2025 report states one operator watches 477 cameras and sets that against the guideline of about 50 cameras per operator issued in 2013.
Caveat
No claim-specific caveat recorded

Sources carrying this claim

  1. MoneyToday — one operator watching 477 cameras (10 Mar 2025)
Claim 7 clm-79ac1b8d6562a5e2 descriptive
the number that grew after the ribbon-cutting was cameras, not operators
Published field
lesson · verbatim
Mapping
mapped · no interpretation or interpolation added by this passport
What the mapping says
The completion figures give 337 staff for 12,759 cameras; the March 2025 report gives 477 cameras per operator, a ratio far above both the 2013 guideline and the ratio at completion.
Caveat
No claim-specific caveat recorded

Sources carrying this claim

  1. MoneyToday — one operator watching 477 cameras (10 Mar 2025)
  2. Pressian — Busan completes district control centres (14 Dec 2017)
Forensic record — source dossiers, gaps, hashes and the exact revision this page renders

This layer records what is known about each source, what is still missing, and the exact snapshot this page is rendering. A missing date, archive or hash stays visible as missing.

unreviewed Revision 2026-08-27-source-dating effective 2026-07-26 · created 2026-08-27

Awaiting operator and domain-expert review; publication of this revision implies neither.

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source dossiers
3
publication dates recorded
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archives linked
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exact locators
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content captures hashed

Governance facts carried by the record

Operator
Busan Metropolitan City with its 16 gu and gun district governments
Actor types
city-government
Funding model
public
Funding description
National interior-ministry control-centre programme plus city, district and education-office budgets
Cost
KRW 19.24bn (2011-2017 build-out)
Ownership
Not recorded
Decision rights
Not recorded
Exit conditions
Not recorded

6 source dossiers

Busan Metropolitan City news — all 16 district control centres complete (20 Dec 2017) busan.go.kr · 4 linked claims

Open original source ↗

Stable source ID
src-7f7f6fe37d716b27
Publisher
Name not classified · busan.go.kr
Type / language
web-page · language not classified
Published
Not recorded
Updated
Not recorded
Source last checked
No source-level check date
Record last verified
2026-07-26
Dossier created
2026-08-27
Retrieved copy
No local capture recorded
Archive
No archived copy linked
Content hash
No captured content hash
Locator
Open the recorded source note

The city's own announcement that all sixteen district centres were complete. No publication date is recorded: the page did not answer when this entry was checked.

Descriptive only — not page/paragraph exact
Claims linked
Pressian — Busan completes district control centres (14 Dec 2017) pressian.com · 6 linked claims

Open original source ↗

Stable source ID
src-5de64ffb0e00b30b
Publisher
Name not classified · pressian.com
Type / language
web-page · language not classified
Published
2017-12-14
Updated
Not recorded
Source last checked
No source-level check date
Record last verified
2026-07-26
Dossier created
2026-08-27
Retrieved copy
No local capture recorded
Archive
No archived copy linked
Content hash
No captured content hash
Locator
Open the recorded source note

Independent press corroboration of completion across all 16 districts, the roughly 19.2 billion won cost, 337 operators and about 12,700 cameras.

Descriptive only — not page/paragraph exact
Claims linked
Kwon and Seo — case study on building Busan's CCTV integrated control centre (KCI, 2011) kci.go.kr · 1 linked claim

Open original source ↗

Stable source ID
src-504fbaa6fc2f03c9
Publisher
Name not classified · kci.go.kr
Type / language
web-page · language not classified
Published
Not recorded
Updated
Not recorded
Source last checked
No source-level check date
Record last verified
2026-07-26
Dossier created
2026-08-27
Retrieved copy
No local capture recorded
Archive
No archived copy linked
Content hash
No captured content hash
Locator
Open the recorded source note

A 2011 Korean journal case study of the construction of the integrated control centre. The page states no publication date.

Descriptive only — not page/paragraph exact
Claims linked
Busan Dong-gu district office — CCTV integrated control centre bsdonggu.go.kr · 2 linked claims

Open original source ↗

Stable source ID
src-d8d771d3d2cad5ce
Publisher
Name not classified · bsdonggu.go.kr
Type / language
web-page · language not classified
Published
2017-07-03
Updated
Not recorded
Source last checked
No source-level check date
Record last verified
2026-07-26
Dossier created
2026-08-27
Retrieved copy
No local capture recorded
Archive
No archived copy linked
Content hash
No captured content hash
Locator
Open the recorded source note

A district office page describing its own centre.

Descriptive only — not page/paragraph exact
Claims linked
MoneyToday — one operator watching 477 cameras (10 Mar 2025) mt.co.kr · 2 linked claims

Open original source ↗

Stable source ID
src-554ce753ddd83c27
Publisher
Name not classified · mt.co.kr
Type / language
web-page · language not classified
Published
2025-03-10
Updated
Not recorded
Source last checked
No source-level check date
Record last verified
2026-07-26
Dossier created
2026-08-27
Retrieved copy
No local capture recorded
Archive
No archived copy linked
Content hash
No captured content hash
Locator
Open the recorded source note

Counterweight, national in scope: cameras per operator rose from 379 in 2022 to 477 in 2024 against a 2013 government recommendation of about 50, and control-room staff report that intelligent CCTV rarely flags incidents such as a person collapsing.

Descriptive only — not page/paragraph exact
Claims linked
Busan Metropolitan City — CCTV installation status disclosure busan.go.kr · 3 linked claims

Open original source ↗

Stable source ID
src-db0e249537cc0d7b
Publisher
Name not classified · busan.go.kr
Type / language
web-page · language not classified
Published
Not recorded
Updated
Not recorded
Source last checked
No source-level check date
Record last verified
2026-07-26
Dossier created
2026-08-27
Retrieved copy
No local capture recorded
Archive
No archived copy linked
Content hash
No captured content hash
Locator
Open the recorded source note

The city's published record of installed cameras. No publication date is recorded: the page did not answer when this entry was checked.

Descriptive only — not page/paragraph exact
Claims linked
Known limits of this passport
  • Publisher names and source languages have not yet been classified; domains are recorded without guessing.
  • Existing source notes are descriptive locators, not page- or paragraph-exact citations.
  • A missing archive, publication date or content hash is shown as null rather than inferred.
  • The project-level evidence grade ranks the strongest source in the entry; it is not a truth score for every claim.

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📎 Cite this project

1001 Smart Cities (2026). “Busan's 16 District CCTV Integrated Control Centres” — Busan, South Korea. The Smart City Atlas. https://1001smartcities.org/projects/busan-integrated-safety-control-center/ (last verified 2026-07-26). Data: CC BY 4.0.

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