[November 10, 2025] [Exclusive] Seoul's 'Urban Safety' Goes Global for First Time... "Expect New Market Opportunities for Domestic Companies"
Following spread of Seoul's 'K-Transportation' to Maldives, 'K-Safety' now enters global market
Seoul City issues RFP for technical support on Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design (CPTED) in Brazil's Niterói City
Part of cooperation program with Inter-American Development Bank (IDB)... Full-scale Latin America entry
Domestic companies expected to secure contracts for CPTED equipment... New market opportunities anticipated
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Seoul's Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design (CPTED)-based urban safety data platform is making its first overseas entry. With Seoul's 'urban safety' technology spreading abroad, domestic companies in this field are expected to gain new market opportunities. Following Seoul's recent decision to export its 'Smart Traffic Management System (TOPIS)' to Maldives' capital Malé, 'K-Safety' is now going global. (¢ºRelated article: [Exclusive] Seoul exports advanced traffic system to Maldives... Green light for K-Transportation export expansion)
According to Seoul City on the 10th, the city issued an RFP on the 8th for the 'Brazil Niterói City Urban Safety Data Platform Construction and CPTED Technical Support' project with a budget allocation of 300 million KRW. This project is part of Seoul's cooperation program with the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB).
Seoul signed an MOU with IDB in September to activate ODA projects in Latin America. The city plans to respond to Latin American ODA demand and launch full-scale entry into the region using this agreement as a foundation. Established in 1959, IDB is a multilateral development bank for Latin America with capital of 174.9 billion USD and annual investment scale of about 12.7 billion USD.
CPTED includes site-specific solutions for crime prevention along with CCTV, emergency bells, convex mirrors, and logoprojectors (devices installed on utility poles and streetlights that project messages onto the ground).
Seoul provides development consulting along with basic concepts and designs for infrastructure construction based on experience in major policy areas like transportation, smart cities, and environment. IDB will support ODA project discovery, technical cooperation, loans, and guarantees in Latin America.
Seoul plans to build an urban safety data platform in Niterói using accumulated experience, technology, and operational know-how from urban safety policies, data platform operations, and CPTED. It also aims to improve urban safety by strengthening safety management in crime-vulnerable areas using this platform.
Project sites include Brazil's Niterói City and CPTED target areas: Morro do Estado community (low-income residential area) and two locations from Niterói City Hall to Arariboia Square.
Through this RFP, Seoul plans to conduct environmental analysis for project implementation, analyze Seoul cases and review applicability, derive target models and implementation tasks for the data platform, execute pilot data analysis, establish CPTED master plan and implementation roadmap, provide capacity building and invitation training, and support follow-up project discovery.
Latin American ODA through CPTED support projects is expected to secure new markets for domestic companies.
A city official stated, "While Seoul's transportation, environment, water supply, digital electronic information, etc., have been exported overseas before, there are no records of exporting CPTED to other countries in our data—this is the first case."
The official added, "When spreading city policies, we install emergency bells, logoprojectors, security lighting, etc. Korean companies have good chances of securing contracts during the consulting and design process provided by the city side."
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