Established in 2021, the center uses artificial intelligence (AI) for comprehensive emergency response, monitoring 900 CCTV cameras across 17 of Seoul’s 21 pedestrian-accessible Han River bridges. Beyond suicide prevention, its most frequent task, the center also handles criminal tracking, traffic accidents and drug enforcement.
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Much of that credit goes to AI, which triggers an alarm if an object identified as a person remains for more than 300 seconds in a bridge’s “loitering zones,” sections where people are able to stand for extended periods.
You can do both. Also a lot of people who try to commit suicide don’t try immediately after they fail, so picking them up alive gives you time to help them. If it was like “well whatever, we’ll pick them up on the bridge so we don’t have to worry about tackling the causes of suicide” i’d agree with you 100%, but that is not what this news is about. It’s about improving a method to prevent the suicide from happening, like nets around high buildings. It’s sad the root causes aren’t fixed with this, but it’s still a good thing happening imo.