Effects of child pick-up behavior on emergency evacuations

The child pick-up behavior of parents during an emergency can cause heavy traffic congestion and failing to evacuate an affected area successfully. In this study, we analyzed the effect of child pick-up behavior using, as an example, a nuclear power plant accident caused by an earthquake, which is a typical no-notice emergency. A quake was assumed to occur near the Shin-Kori nuclear power plant in Ulsan, Korea, resulting in a nuclear power plant accident. An agent-based dynamic simulation model using VISSIM was employed to conduct sensitivity analyses with different child pick-up rates. The results confirmed that parents are a major cause of congestion and a vulnerable class in an emergency evacuation. The child pick-up behavior caused significant traffic congestion, and parents who pick up their children showed a higher evacuation failure rate

The effects of earthquake experience on disaster education for children and teens

The purpose of this study is to examine the factors of disaster experience that impact the effectiveness of disaster education on school students (children and teens). Following the magnitude 5.4 Pohang earthquake in 2017, Pohang City Hall conducted a school earthquake disaster education program over a period of four months (August to November) in 2018. Professors and graduate students from the Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology taught around 5000 middle and high school students, while also conducting surveys. The experiences of the Pohang earthquake were analyzed and divided into cognitive responses and emotional responses. Students who felt activated emotional responses, surprise and fear, but not joy, tended to have more effective educational experiences. On the other hand, unpleasant emotional reactions, such as anger and sadness, had a negative effect on educational effectiveness. The cognitive response, which is perceived intensity in this research, did not impact educational effectiveness significantly. These results imply that the emotional responses of students are more important than their cognitive responses in providing a disaster education program. This means that even though an earthquake may be small in magnitude and may not cause physical damage, we still need to provide immediate disaster education to the children and teens if they are surprised and afraid of future disasters

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Conflict and Settlement in Siting Policy: Comparative Study of Radioactive Waste Management Facilities in Korea and Sweden

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Public deliberation on the national nuclear energy policy in Korea ??? Small successes but bigger challenges

Successful transition of a nation's energy policy requires widespread engagement from all sectors of the society, including the public. The government of the Republic of Korea conducted a deliberative polling to decide whether to resume nuclear power plant construction in response to the conflicts in the construction of the new Shin-Kori nuclear power plants in 2017. This study reports the findings of a quantitative analysis of the process and the results of the deliberation. Although the respondents supported the resumption of the construction, they favored the reduced use of nuclear power in the future. Despite the intensive deliberation process, most people did not change their initial opinions; rather, they tended to make judgments based on their values, especially their political ideologies. However, the Korean deliberation process did show signs of small success. Although the participants did not change their original opinions completely, they became more sympathetic to the opinions of the other side of the debate, suggesting the possibility of a democratic energy transition

Conflicts and natural disaster management: a comparative study of flood control in the Republic of Korea and the United States

The purpose of this research is to analyse the conflicts that arise among major stakeholders during the process of disaster management and to suggest policy recommendations for improving disaster management systems. It describes several important conflict cases that have occurred among major stakeholders, such as governments, private-sector entities, and non-governmental organisations, during natural disaster management. In addition, it probes the similarities and the differences between such conflicts in the Republic of Korea and the United States. The differences between them may originate from a range of factors, such as the disaster itself, cultural features, management practices, and government organisation. However, the conflicts also are very similar in some ways, as the motivations and the behaviour of stakeholders during a disaster are alike in both countries. Based on this comparison, the study presents some common and important implications for successful disaster management practices in Korea and the US, as well as in many other nations around the worldclos

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The Evolution of National Emergency Management from the Viewpoint of Public Administration: A Comparative Study of the UK, US, and Korea

최근 천암함 사고는 우리나라 위기관리시스템에 대한 체계적 고민을 요구한다. 전세계적으로 국가위기관리 패러다임은 국민방위에서 국민보호로 전환되고 있다. 이는 행정학적 관점에서 국가위기관리시스템이 기존의 명령과 통제를 중심으로 하는 전통적 관료제에서 협력적 거버넌스를 보다 중시하는 방향으로 전환되고 있음을 의미한다. 본 논문에서는 이러한 변화의 흐름이 미국, 영국, 한국에서 어떻게 나타났는지 고찰하고, 시사점을 도출한다. 특히 안보와 연관된 문제가 발생하였을 경우에는 명령과 통제 중심의 국민방위 패러다임이 보다 강조되곤 하는데, 이에 대한 문제점을 제시하였다. Recent accident of the South Korean warship Cheonan causes a dispute of the national emergency management system. Worldwide, the paradigm of national emergency management system is changing from civil defence to civil protection. This trend means that the system transition from traditional bureaucracy to collaborative governance is under way in the viewpoint of public administration. This study investigate the transition process and their implication in the UK, the US, and Korea. Especially, the problem of overemphasis on command and control centered civil defence paradigm in the case of the accidents associated with the national security is suggested.clos