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Displaying 45 of about 297 resultsSecretary-General Ban Ki-moon today outlined five areas that deserve greater attention as the world community strives to ensure nuclear security, from curbing terrorism financing to stricter control over fissile materials.
“The prospect of nuclear terrorism threatens international security. We are united in our resolve to defuse this threat,” he said i…
During a keynote speech at the sixth World Water Forum held in Marseille, France, South Korean Prime Minister Kim Hwang-sik stressed the need for active global cooperation in tackling water problems to better utilize the limited resource. "Despite decades of global efforts to solve water issues, the world has been witnessing more serious water-related n…
According to the Korea Herald, the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) will properly maximize the use of its budget in propelling the standardization of a disaster prevention system, the improvement of prediction capacity, the building of an integrated disaster management system, etc. To fight potential disasters resulting from climate change, t…
Yonhap reports that after at least 69 people were killed or are still missing in landslides and flash floods following the heaviest rainfall in nearly a century battered the country late last month, President Lee Myung-bak blamed the torrential rains on climate change, and called for greater efforts to battle the phenomenon. He announced a project aimed…
This brochure describes the Collaborative Learning Initiative for Cities (CLIC) programme, which enables Making Cities Resilient (MCR) Campaign cities to strengthen plans and programmes based on the Ten Essentials. It is intended to design, pilot and deliver a potentially-certifiable training programme focused on the MCR Campaign tools. UNISDR’s Global…
An International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) team of experts has concluded a five-day Site and External Events Design (SEED) mission to the Republic of Korea.
The SEED team reviewed methods and criteria for evaluating seismic safety at the Wolsong Nuclear Power Plant and Shin Wolsong Nuclear Power Plant (NPP), operated by Korea Hydro and Nuclear Power…
In the past, developing countries such as Korea lacked guidelines for exploring effective policies for disaster-resilient growth, resulting in unnecessary sacrifices in terms of time, resources, and human capital. Through the lessons learned by Korea, currently developing countries facing socio-economic development can build disaster resilience without…
This booklet includes 14 best practices on the application of technology for reducing disaster risks from China, Japan and the Republic of Korea in which the experience, impacts and results, lessons and relevant challenges are introduced.
The Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030 recognizes that science, technology and innovation are c…
26 July 2016, INCHEON, Republic of Korea – The UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction has signed a five-year, US$10 million agreement with the Ministry of Public Safety and Security and Incheon Metropolitan City of the Republic of Korea to support education and training for disaster risk reduction.
The signing of the agreement coincided with a visit by…
INCHEON, Republic of Korea, 7 December 2015 – One hundred and fifty-six Korean municipalities have agreed to promote city-to-city learning to strengthen implementation of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction.
The first City Resilience summit of its kind took place at UNISDR’s Global Education and Training Institute (GETI), in Incheon, agree…
GENEVA - A serious shortage of medical resources was one of the main challenges which China had to overcome to stabilize the COVID19 outbreak in Wuhan, Hubei, where a mortality rate of 4.7% was recorded compared with 0.9% in the country’s 30 other provinces.
Since the first case was confirmed on December 31, 2019, China has had 81,960 confirmed cases…
GENEVA, 25 March, 2020 - Trace, test and treat. That sums up the strategy pursued by the Republic of Korea since it detected its first case of COVID-19 on January 20 and its first death on February 20, without imposing a lockdown.
The country has managed to keep its mortality rate at 1.4% compared to a global mortality rate of 4.34% despite an outbreak…
By Hyonhee Shin
SEOUL (Reuters) - A South Korean tabletop exercise on emergency responses to a fictional mysterious outbreak led directly to tools the country deployed less than a month later to manage the arrival and spread of the coronavirus, one of the experts involved said.
According to an undisclosed government document seen by Reuters, on Dec. 1…
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 c…
By Michael Ahn, Associate Professor and MPA Graduate Program Director, University of Massachusetts Boston
As countries around the world consider how best to reopen their countries, it’s worth considering how South Korea has been able to “flatten the curve” and even hold parliamentary elections without resorting to lockdowns.
After seeing an initi…