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South Korea: Gov't aims to reduce disaster fatalities by 40 pct by 2024

Source(s): Yonhap News Agency
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SEOUL (Yonhap) -- The government aims to reduce the number of disaster and safety-related fatalities by 40 percent from the 2017 level over the next five years, the Ministry of the Interior and Safety said Thursday.

The 40-percent reduction is a key point of the nation's Fourth Basic Disaster Management Plan, which has been finalized after consultations among 28 government ministries and agencies and deliberation by the Central Safety Management Commission, the ministry said.

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For that purpose, the government will focus its policy measures on enhancing the protection of children, elderly people and others vulnerable to accidents and reducing traffic accidents, industrial disasters and suicides, the ministry said.

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Those policies will be implemented under four strategies -- inclusive safety management, preventive living safety, field-based disaster response, and science and technology-based disaster management, the ministry explained.

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