BIOGRAPHY

Dr. Park has been trained and practiced as an urban hydrologist, urban planner and urban engineer. He received a PhD in Urban Engineering at the Chungbuk National University. He also taught at Chungbuk National University as a Teaching Fellow in Korea for many years.

He joined K-water in 2016 as principal researcher and is designing for sustainable water-circulation of Busan Eco Delta City in South Korea. It covers 11million square meters and has a population of 75,100 people. He is also involved in making K-water’s future waterfront city strategy and implementation plan. He gives professional consultation for central and local government in the area of urban development and digital transformation for smart city.

He is very keen on doing research with practice on urban regeneration, urban futures, waterfront city, and making smart city. His research outcomes were published as several papers, Evaluation of the cause of inundation in a repeatedly flooded zone in the city of Cheongju, Korea using a 1D/2D modelling (WST, 1st author), Assessment of inlets capacity for inundation diminution in urban watershed (CET, 1st author), Future projections of drought over South Korea using representative concentration pathways (TAO, 2nd author) and so on.

TOPIC

THE FUTURE PROOF CITY : BUSAN ECO DELTA SMART CITY

ABSTRACT

Waterfronts have begun to be revisited by urban researchers, practitioners and developers during the last two decades because they were considered to be valuable urban assets for vitalising urban areas and significant natural assets for ecological benefits. At present, waterfront developments have become a worldwide phenomenon, trying to maximise water’s economic, socio-cultural, and environmental potential.

The Busan Eco Delta City, which is located at Nakdong Delta, is facing great challenges making 21st waterfront city and recently designated as National Smart City Pilot Project in 2018. The cutting edge smart city technology is going to be applied into the Delta waterfront to achieve smart technology, smart process, smart democracy in urban waterfront settlement in Busan, South Korea.