Frefighters are rushing to the scene at the Gwangjin Fire Station in Seoul on Nov. 9, 2020, under the scenario of the building catching fire. (Yonhap)
SUWON, Jan. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — Gyeonggi Province’s fire department said Wednesday it had created a new firefighting dispatch ringtone based on the judgment that existing ringtones designed to inform firefighters about the occurrence of emergency situations were a source of stress.
When reports are received by the emergency control center, they are classified into four categories — fire, rescue, first aid and life safety — with the ringtones generating four different kinds of sounds, including a wakeup bell, boat horn and doorbell.
However, many firefighters made an appeal for stress and trauma caused by the abrupt blaring of high-pitched sounds.
Against this backdrop, last September the Gyeonggi-do Fire Services asked Kim Gun, an applied music professor at Dong-ah Institute of Media and Arts, to create a new ringtone that can address the problems of existing ringtones.
Park Jae-bum, a professor of occupational and environment medicine at Ajou University and Park Hye-yeon, a professor of clinical psychology at Dongduk Women’s University, participated in the production process.
The new ringtones are composed of uplifting orchestral sounds for fire, bright harmony sounds for rescue and a flute melody for life safety.
M. H. Lee (mhlee@koreabizwire.com)
