Chuncheon City is moving to introduce artificial intelligence across its care services and disaster and safety operations, with a total of 1.6 billion won committed to ten AI-related projects, according to information verified by this newspaper's fact-checking desk.
The municipal government's plan centers on applying AI technologies to two core areas of city administration: care services for residents and disaster and safety management. The program comprises ten separate projects, backed by a combined budget of 1.6 billion won.
By bringing AI into its care programs, the city aims to support welfare delivery, while the disaster and safety component is intended to strengthen how Chuncheon detects, monitors and responds to emergencies. The initiative positions the mid-sized Gangwon Province city among local governments actively adopting AI for public services rather than confining the technology to industrial or private-sector use.
The fact-checking desk reviewed eight primary sources in the course of verifying the claim, and no sources were blocked or skipped due to access restrictions such as captchas during the review. The reporting underlying the verification was supported by imagery carried by Yonhap News and Newsfire.
The verified figure of 1.6 billion won across ten projects matches the claim as originally published, covering both the care and the disaster-safety domains of the city's AI push.
For readers tracking how Korean local governments are adopting AI in everyday administration, the verified record confirms that Chuncheon's plan to deploy AI in care and disaster safety, spanning ten projects with 1.6 billion won in investment, is True.