Hazmat emergency management: Case of Korea

Abstract

The threat of hazmat has always been situated around Korea, considering that each stakeholder has carried out isolated activity in the field. This study aimed at studying how Korea must enhance its absence of a national framework for the ultimate goal of emergency management. A major methodology was qualitative content analysis by studying the topic of either without a national framework or with a national framework via Governments, industries, NGOs and local residents. The key theme was that Korea would need to fundamentally set up a national framework for hazmat emergency management while timely implementing the issues of all hazards, equity, best practices, competency, education and training. The major contribution of this study was that it studied the topic of Korean hazmat emergency management more comprehensively than previous studies.