National policies, plans and risk and governance profile(s)

Cover
In this study, a flooding time nomograph (FTN) was proposed to predict the flood occurrence time according to rainfall conditions, such as intensity, time distribution, and duration in Seoul, Republic of Korea.
Cover
This study compared the relative risks of heat days on mortalities by vulnerable groups in the past decade (1999–2008) and the recent decade (2009–2018) in four cities, Seoul, Incheon, Daegu, and Gwangju, in Korea.
Cover - Republic of Korea VNR MTR
The Voluntary National Report of the Republic of Korea for the Midterm Review of the Implementation of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030 (MTR SF).
Cover
To mitigate the impacts of urban floods in Seoul, the researchers established flood-vulnerable areas as target areas where green infrastructure planning was applied using the Stormwater Runoff Reduction Module (SRRM).
Cover page of the article
This paper asks to what extent learning has occurred with regard to COVID-19. That is, of past experience with pandemics, whether countries learned from the pandemic experience of others, or from their own experience with other types of emergencies.
Cover
The goal of this handbook is to provide background infromation for personnel responding to a disasters during which they may interact with government or citizen responders from China, Japan, South Korea, or Taiwan.
Cover of the article
The article reviews the current state of risk management, emergency response, and risk communication on chemical and Natech risk management in the two countries, and discusses some issues of the current chemical risk management that require improvement.
Cover and source: Government of Korea, Republic of
The enhanced update of the first NDC of the Republic of Korea is set at the most ambitious level possible to achieve the goal of carbon neutrality by 2050.

View more Knowledge Base entries

Further DRR country-level resources

IRP resources on Korea, Rep of
The International Recovery Platform strengthens knowledge and information on building back better in recovery, rehabilitation, and reconstruction.

Explore the Knowledge Base

PreventionWeb's knowledge base contains more than 75,000 entries and is updated daily.

Bookshelves in a library.
Type of content
Explore all updates by their type: news, publications, resource guides and more.
Thai people making sandbags to prevent flooding during the monsoon season in Bangkok, Thailand
Themes
Explore by the DRR theme: Human, economic, governance, science, environment and more.
Different symbols of hazards and disasters.
Hazards
Explore by the hazard type: floods, heat, landslides, drought and more.
Airplane from above
Resource guides
Keep up to date with various DRR topics and emerging trends.

Is this page useful?

Yes No Report an issue on this page

Thank you. If you have 2 minutes, we would benefit from additional feedback (link opens in a new window).