365 Safe Town

Disaster training borrows the machinery of a theme park

Five four-seat helicopter simulators pitch through a forest-fire mission, three nine-seat rescue boats reproduce a flooded city, and the earthquake room uses six-axis motion to simulate a magnitude-7.5-plus event

The main safety hall is built around five large disaster scenarios: forest fire, heavy snow, storm and flood, earthquake and terrorism. Most run as timed experiences with fixed starts and capacities. The forest-fire room combines a 4D film with helicopter-shaped six-axis simulators; the flood room uses six-axis boat simulators; the terrorism room puts six riders at a time into a 360-degree rotating dark rider for a 3D/4D pursuit scenario framed around stopping a terrorist group threatening the city

The body’s response is central to each simulated disaster. Seats move, vehicles pitch, the room changes around the visitor, and each scenario attaches an emergency action to physical motion. Smaller stations then bring the scale down to everyday risks, including CPR, electrical safety and aircraft evacuation

The place functions as a training campus powered by theme-park hardware

Firefighters take over where simulation stops

A second part of the campus replaces ride mechanics with practical drills. The Fire Safety Experience Center is led by active fire-school instructors and covers extinguisher use, smoke evacuation, emergency descent equipment, CPR and AED practice

Some emergency skills depend on more than watching a screen shake. Pulling an extinguisher pin, moving through smoke or handling an emergency descent device depends on sequence, grip and repetition

Challenge World extends that physical emphasis outdoors. A cable car reaches the higher part of the site, where tree-track obstacles, quick-flight equipment and a flying-fox course turn balance and height into another form of controlled stress. These attractions have stricter height, age and weight limits than the main disaster hall

The campus therefore moves through three different ways of learning risk: simulated disaster, guided emergency procedure and physical challenge

Taebaek built safety at city scale

Construction began in 2006, and the complex opened to visitors on October 31, 2012 after a project costing roughly ₩179 billion. The original project covered about 950,000 square metres; the current measured area is 938,579 square metres

The original plan was already unusually large. It combined the youth safety-experience complex, Challenge World and the Gangwon fire-school facilities across a multi-zone campus

In 2015, the Ministry of Education designated 365 Safe Town as Korea’s first safety-experience center for student safety education. That formal role keeps school and group bookings central to the operating model

The scale also creates a practical consequence: a complete visit spans several hours. Individual attractions have fixed capacities and start times, and a full safety visit is designed around several hours on site

Before you go

The main safety experiences generally require visitors to be at least 48 months old and 100cm tall. Fire-safety sessions begin at elementary-school age, while Challenge World applies a higher minimum height and additional age and weight restrictions

The core disaster rooms run to timetables, often in 20-minute intervals, so capacity can shape the day even after admission. The full safety program can occupy about four hours, and arrivals after 16:00 may leave too little time for some experiences

The standard safety pass does not include Challenge World, the cable car, 9D VR, Kids Land or the Fire Safety Experience Center; those are ticketed separately