2016, Vol.12, No.6

Crisisonomy 2023 KCI Impact Factor : 0.64

pISSN : 2466-1198 / eISSN : 2466-1201
https://journal.kci.go.kr/cemtp

The purpose of this study was to search for development strategies for disaster and safety management as to variable and uncertain problems through a case study on the National Infrastructure Protection Plan(NIPP) as the system for the U.S. critical infrastructure protection, focusing on social overhead capital (SOC) protection and crisis management. Since the 9.11 attacks, the U.S. has established and operated protection plans for infrastructure and critical assets pertaining to international organizations and overseas governments,as well as federal, state and local governments, local associations and civil divisions. In particular, in order to establish protection plans for national infrastructure, the first priority should be given to evaluate risk factors threatening the target facilities for protection and share relevant information. In the process of information sharing, it is necessary to consider principles of integration and departmentalization.

The purpose of this study is to analyze the case of the Sewol ferry disaster and to explore how the responses of traumatic loss caused by a disaster have been revealed in commemoration events. For this purpose, those holding the commemoration events for the Sewol ferry victims are grouped into the three groups; the bereaved, a civic group, and a government organization in order to estimate the frequency of commemorations over time. The study also identifies the people’s emotions revealed in the commemoration events and their themes. Commemoration events were most frequently held in May 2014 and in April 2015 on the first anniversary of the disaster; the primary emotions found in the events are sorrow and anger; and the theme most frequently revealed is ‘memory’ of the disaster. In particular, since most of the victims of the Sewol ferry disaster were high school students, sadness about the fact that the adolescents who would have needed to be protected by adults died at their early age due to adults’ wrongdoing was frequently found in the commemoration events for the Sewol ferry victims.

This study examines the actual conditions of military environmental education and analyzes its impact on environmental perceptions of military officers, in order to provide guidance on how to improve military environmental education in view of environmental security in Korea. The results are as follow. First, it is critical to determine the goals of environmental education for which the detailed enforcement regulations should be prepared. Second, the military environmental education should be expanded and developed. Third, the education system should be strengthened for training environmental experts. Forth, the military environmental day for each military unit should be established and consolidated to settle environmental safety culture. Fifth, various environmental activities in connection with experts and the environmental organizations should be widely promoted.