• Journal of the Korean Society of Safety
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• v.38 no.1
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• pp.18-24
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• 2023

Severe natural disasters and man-made attacks such as terrorism are causing unprecedented disruptions in power systems. Due to rapid climate change and the aging of energy infrastructure, both the frequency of failure and the level of damage are expected to increase. Resilience is a concept proposed to respond to extreme disaster events that have a low probability of occurrence but cause enormous damage and is defined as the ability of a system to recover to its original function after a disaster. Resilience is a comprehensive indicator that can include system performance before and after a disaster and focuses on preparing for all possible disaster scenarios and having quick and efficient recovery actions after an incident. Various studies have been conducted to evaluate resilience, but studies on economic damage considering the duration of a power outage are scarce. In this study, we propose an optimal algorithm that can identify failures after an extreme disaster and restore the load on the distribution system through emergency distributed power generation input and system reconfiguration. After that, the cost of power outage damage is analyzed by applying VoLL and CDF according to each restoration strategy.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Hazard Mitigation
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• v.10 no.2
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• pp.61-68
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• 2010

Korea is constructing the disaster management system to prevent various disasters and minimize damages. In spite of these efforts, however, Korea lately suffered from a number of diverse disasters. These disasters once again lead to the questions and criticisms concerning the effectiveness of the disaster management system. So research into how to quantify the disaster management system is very significant in securing the right of the people to lead a safe life, keeping human life and properties from being injured. The purpose of this study is to prioritize policies which can be considered for establishing and operating disaster management system. To do that, this study conducts a questionnaire survey, targeting for 282 fire man. The survey includes various factors according to four stages in disaster management process: prevention, preparedness, response and recovery. The method used is AHP(Analytic Hierarchy Process) technique using expertchoice 2000. Results of the analysis are as follows. At the first stage of analysis, prevention is found as the most significant factor. The other significant factors are response, preparedness, and recovery factor in order. At the second stage of analysis, share of role among disaster facilities is the most significant factor. Reorganization of disaster facilities and connection of law are significant in order.

• Journal of Korean Society of societal Security
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• v.2 no.3
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• pp.61-66
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• 2009

Previous disaster management system in Korea was focusing on post-disaster, recovery phase. However, modern disaster management system should be focusing on the mitigation activities to minimize human and property damages based on the proper prediction and forecast of various natural disasters and timely dissemination of disaster information to the people. Recently, more frequent and larger scaled disasters have been reported around the globe, mainly due to the environment change not only by physical anomalies such as climate change but also by socio-economic transformations such as urbanization and industrialization. This study describes current practices in disaster management for climate change adaptation of advanced countries and a possible disaster management standard system that can be applied in Korea, based on the case studies on the European countries who are improving their disaster management systems against climate change.

• Journal of the Korean Association of Geographic Information Studies
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• v.7 no.4
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• pp.109-118
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• 2004

Disaster management in Korea so far was centered on recovery efforts rather than prior mitigations. Besides, there were no systematic attempts to assemble appropriate information for even for the past disasters. In this reason, the nation has been repeatedly suffered from similar disasters. To prevent and minimize damages from disasters, it is necessary to build an information system that can gather and organize proper information and that can analyze and visualize spatial patterns of past disasters. This research aims at proposing policy measures to foster a GIS based urban disaster management system. To do so, the paper firstly takes a close look at the FGIS in the City of Taegu as an example. Then it examines the effects of GIS based urban disaster management system and suggests future directions to promote it.

• Journal of the Korean GEO-environmental Society
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• v.20 no.12
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• pp.27-32
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• 2019

Disaster Safety Management Information standardization and harmonization simplifies the process of disaster management (prevention, preparedness, response and recovery) to increase the efficiency of disaster management, it is necessary to minimize the people's life and property damage. Disaster safety standardization is to standardize disaster safety information in the past to respond to an uncertain future and systematically manage disaster safety accordingly. This study developed a standard code system to utilize disaster safety information such as earthquake, fire, and fine dust, which are of social interest among various and complex environmental disasters. It aims to support practitioners to conduct efficient disaster tasks in the event of a disaster.

• KIEAE Journal
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• v.16 no.6
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• pp.77-82
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• 2016

Purpose: Almost every research carried out in our country against the natural disaster is focused on the temporary facilities such as temporary housing, emergency shelter and as a result, it is very hard to find out researches on the ordinary houses which installed integrated systems of hazard-resistant against the natural disaster. Method: To conduct this research, categorizing process for design, structural, environmental and installation elements found in the Hazard-Resistant and Reduction House built for sale in Japan was performed. Result: In this study, several design concepts and subordinate items are recommended for hazard-resistant housing. First, design concept of 'Preparedness' which means security and access to the storage storing goods especially food & beverage for the emergencies is needed. The subordinate items consist of security of stocking space, diversified and circular storage system, and safety storage system. Second, design concept of 'Security' which means security of physical safety space and rapid recovery to returning to daily life against natural disaster is needed. The subordinate items consist of many items including not only structure and facilities but also architectural design method. And finally, design concept of 'Maintenance, Support and Return' which means minimizing the physical and psychological damages and support safety and physical conditions of the victims from the impact of the disaster to returning to daily life is needed. The subordinate items consist of high efficiency insulation/airtightness design, microclimate design, combination of photovoltaic system and storage battery, non-power appliance system against the power failure, storing system for drinking water, rainwater storing and utilization system.

• Journal of the Society of Disaster Information
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• v.16 no.3
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• pp.458-471
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• 2020

Purpose: In Korea, the frequency and frequency of earthquakes are increasing every year. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to compare and analyze the characteristics and examples of earthquakes in Korea and Japan, and to propose improvements to the earthquake prevention policy in Korea. Method: In this study, we investigate and evaluate Japan's response in two cases: the Kobe earthquake and the East Japan earthquake. After surveying and evaluating the nation's countermeasures in the two events, Gyeongju and Pohang, they were compared. Result: When comparing recovery systems in Korea and Japan, there were significant differences in plans for restoration of road transport networks, regional disaster prevention plans, and the introduction of Conclusion: considering the physical distance between Korea's earthquake-prone areas and the capital, the government should quickly come up with countermeasures to ensure that immediate earthquake response in the region is enhanced through the detailed establishment of the Functional Continuity Plan (COOP), and that administrative functions will function normally in the event of a disaster through the introduction of the administrative BCP concept.

• Journal of Korean Society of societal Security
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• v.1 no.2
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• pp.73-78
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• 2008

Recently, large scale natural disasters such as floods and typhoons due to climate change have been occurring all over the world causing severe damages. Among the various efforts to reduce and recover damages, recently, advanced information technology and remote sensing techniques are applied in disaster management. In this study, a real-time automated damage estimation system using information technology and spatial imagery was developed to accomplish prompt and accurate disaster damage estimation. This system is able to estimate the damage amounts of public facilities such as roads, rivers, bridges automatically through spatial imageries including ground based digital images, aerial photos, satellite images of disaster sites. Based on these spatial imageries, the damage amounts are analyzed in the Web-GIS based analysis system. Consequently, the digital damage reports such as digital disaster information sheets and damage maps can be made promptly and accurately. This system can be a useful tool to carry out prompt disaster damage estimation and efficient disaster recovery.

• Journal of Korea Spatial Information System Society
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• v.12 no.1
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• pp.57-65
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• 2010

In this study, disaster damage investigation system was developed using high resolution satellite images and GIS technique to afford effective damage investigation system for widely disaster damaged area. Study area was selected in Bonghwa, Gyungsangbukdo where high magnitude of damages from torrential rain has occurred at July in 2008. GIS DB was built using 1:5,000 topographic map, cadastral map, satellite image and aerial photo to apply for investigation algorithm. Disaster damage investigation system was developed using VB NET languages, ArcObject component and MS-SQL DBMS for effective management of damage informations. The system can finding damaged area comparing pre- and post-disaster images and drawing damaged area according to the damage item unit. Extracted object was saved in Shape file format and overlayed with background GIS DB for obtaining detail information of damaged area. Disaster damage investigation system using high resolution spatial images can extract damage information rapidly and highly reliably for widely disaster areas. This system can be expected to highly contributing to enhance the disaster prevention capabilities in national level field investigation supporting and establishing recovery plan etc. This system can be utilized at the plan of disaster prevention through digital damage information and linked in national disaster information management system. Further studies are needed to better improvement in system and cover for the linkage of damage information with digital disaster registry.

• Management & Information Systems Review
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• v.35 no.3
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• pp.173-193
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• 2016

The aim of this paper is to extend the TOPSIS(Technique for Order Preference by Similarity to Ideal Solution) to the fuzzy environment for solving the disaster recovery priority decision problem in credit bureau business information system. In this paper, the rating of each information systems and the weight of each criterion are described by linguistic terms which can be expressed in trapezoidal fuzzy numbers. Then, a vertex method is proposed to calculate the distance between two trapezoidal fuzzy numbers. According to the concept of the TOPSIS, a closeness coefficient is defined to determine the ranking order of all information systems. The combination between the fuzzy set and TOPSIS brings several benefits when compared with other approaches, such that the fuzzy TOPSIS require few fuzzy judgements to parameterization, which contributes to the agility of the decision process, it does not limit the number of alternatives simultaneously evaluated, and it does not cause the ranking reversal problem when a new alternative is included in the evaluation process. This paper is demonstrated with a real case study of a credit rating agency involving 9 evaluation criteria and 9 credit bureau business information systems assessed by 6 evaluators, and provide the systematic disaster recovery framework for BCP(Business Continuity Planning) to practitioner. Finally, this paper show that the procedure of the proposed fuzzy TOPSIS method is well suited as a decision-making tool for the disaster recovery priority decision problem in credit bureau business information system.