South Korea will set up an integrated system to create a map with information about crimes, accidents and natural disasters in each region as part of efforts to guarantee safe living circumstances for the people, the home affairs ministry said Friday.

The government will also come up with detailed reduction targets for the country's major social ills, while launching a regular meeting on the issue, the ministry said in a briefing on its 2013 policy plan to President Park Geun-hye.

According to the policy goals, the ministry will establish a system that integrates scattered information regarding public safety and security by combining the databases run by different institutions including the National Emergency Management Agency, the Korea Transportation Safety Authority and the land and farming ministries.

The system will be established by the year's end with a budget of 110 million won ($97,690), the ministry officials said.

The integrated system will be turned into a map next year that charts detailed information about each region's living conditions, such as how much the region is prone to violent crimes, frequent traffic accidents and natural disasters, with its coverage set to be expanded from several municipal areas to the whole country in phases by 2015, they added.

"We will draw up the safety index by region or types of accidents and crimes and make it public so the people will be well aware of the circumstances they live in," said Minister of Security and Administrative Affairs Yoo Jeong-bok. "Such a comparison by region is also expected to encourage local authorities to strive harder to guarantee public safety and security."

As part of efforts to root out the so-called four major social ills of school and sexual violence, domestic violence and substandard food, which Park vowed to tackle during her presidential campaign, the home affairs ministry decided to come up with detailed goals of reducing the number of cases in each category.

On Friday, Park instructed officials to put in extra efforts to uproot those crimes.

"Though we have made a lot of efforts, concerns among the people have not been resolved. I hope you will work with extraordinary resolution to make sure to root out (the social ills) within the term of this government," she said.

Park also said that the government should set crime reduction targets and keep assessing progress. She also called for the ministry to work closely with all law enforcement agencies, such as police, the prosecution and the justice ministry.

To check the results and seek ways to boost cooperation in the safety and security fields among relevant organizations, the government will create a new policy coordination meeting set to be chaired by the home affairs ministry and plans to hold it twice a month, according to its officials. (Yonhap News)