2016, Vol.12, No.10

Crisisonomy 2023 KCI Impact Factor : 0.64

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

Enhanced personal safety competency through safety education will improve the quality of life and be a cornerstone of a safe society. The study aims to assess the current status of safety education contents in Korea, identifying the gaps based on the Korean Age-specific Safety Education Map. The data were collected by using inclusion and exclusion criteria to select and extract 2,366 contents from 53 web sites. The themes of these contents concentrated on life safety, public health safety, and crime safety, while public infrastructure safety was rarely found in the contents. 55.4% of the contents were related to toddlers, children, and adolescents, whereas only 0.7% pertained to the elderly and 21.4% was not age specific. In terms of quality, audio-visual contents including videos and applications was less than 40%. It is recommended that safety education contents be developed to fill the gaps identified by this study, which should be followed by further studies ensuring that these contents undergo appropriate quality control.

This study analyzed public trust in government and public response to nuclear energy policy in Korea, applying Hirschman’s exit-voice-loyalty (EVL) model. Especially, in order to complement the limitation of the existing studies, we considered trust in central government and local government separately. The results are as follows. First, various demographic variables affect positive perception on the degree of ‘Voice’, while the degrees of ‘Exit’ and ‘Loyalty’ are influenced by simple factors. Second, the possibility of ‘Exit’ was highest in the group of high-risk perception, while the highest possibility of ‘Voice’ was found in the group of low-risk perception. Lastly, the higher level of public trust in government, the lower possibility of ‘Exit’ and the higher possibility of ‘Loyalty’. In particular, we found that trust in local government is the core determinant of both ‘Exit’ and ‘Loyalty’ behaviors.

The purpose of this study is to investigate the physicochemical, mineralogical and adsorption characteristics of the Quartz Porphyry as adsorbent instead of activated carbon, which is known as a porous and radioactive material. The adsorption test was performed to compare the removal efficiency of the material with that of activated carbon on same condition. The adsorption and removal tests for the heavy metals were also performed. In addition, the removal efficiency test of granular activated carbon (GAC) was performed in comparison with the Quartz Porphyry. The major components of the Quartz Porphyry were quartz, orthoclase and plagioclase and the size of its surface area was found 1.8431 m2/g. The result of leaching test of the Quartz Porphyry shows that Ca, Mg, K and Na were extracted. The removal efficiency of heavy metals (Pb, Cu and Cd) was almost as same as that of GAC in single phase.