Korea’s various types of advanced security products have been globally popular and leading due to their strong technological base, especially in the area of IT(Information Technology). Such moves led by Korean companies reflect today’s sharply intensifying trend of convergence in the sector on a global-scale. Many promising domestic suppliers are scheduled to join the world’s leading security industry fair, IFSEC2013, to be held in in Birmingham, the UK, May 13-16. A broad spectrum of Korea’s up-to-date and price-competitive security items will be on display during the exhibition.

Exhibition participants, especially those who have potential intentions to compare advantages of Korean products with those of the foreign competitors, can witness and confirm the competitiveness of such Korean exhibits. Their accompanying displays of both visible and invisible security services will be on show, such as CCTV systems, DVRs, Network Surveillance Systems, Access Control Systems, Alarm Monitoring Systems, Bio Recognition Systems, Network Security, Web Security, Security Control Systems, SI, DB Security, IT Security Solutions, Anti-terror and Homeland Security Solution, Intelligent Traffic Systems, etc.

The South Korean government has increased its budget for security and safety by 39% to US$103.9million for the year 2013. As a following measure, the government announced it will establish Integrated CCTV Monitoring Centers in all 230 local governments. So far, 88 Integrated CCTV Monitoring Centers have been set up and another 142 centers will be constructed from 2013 to 2015.

As a string of high-profile attacks targeting women and children in the nation in recent years shows crime is visibly on the rise, the government authority is determined to launch a project to deploy CCTV surveillance cameras throughout 3,980 crimeprone areas across the nation – such as parks and playgrounds