2018, Vol.14, No.3

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 provide psychological understanding on seniors’ behavior during fire evacuation in order to reflect the reality of the rapid growth in both seniors and high-rise buildings in Korea. A total of 30 seniors participated in this study, and the results of correlation analysis showed that (1) a low level of confidence had a relationship with a high level of needs on refuge area; (2) the level of confidence on visual and auditory status had relationships with self-efficacy, special exploration, and judgement in risk; and (3) the level of pre-experiment self-efficacy was negatively related with the number of floors they actually passed through. The result of multiple regression analysis revealed that seniors’ confidence on health and cognitive status influenced on pre-experiment self-efficacy, while the result of qualitative analysis implied that the participation in this experiment changed the seniors’ self-efficacy as a meaningful experience. It is necessary to establish a policy and provide education for seniors’ safe evacuation by considering their psychological characteristics.

The purpose of this study is to examine how the Chinese press reports their nuclear power generation. Specifically, we analyzed the article type, news frame, and tone of coverage reported in People’s Daily and Guangming Daily. The main findings are as follows. A commentary appeared to be the dominant type(77%). It is showed that the main news frame of the Chinese Press is episodic frame (86%) that usually used to be a positive tone toward China’s nuclear power policy. The content frame is skewed heavily toward the topics on the pride of one's own country’s nuclear technology and enhancing safety awareness frame(61%). In addition, the frames which are newly added to the Chinese press reports include nuclear technology, enhancing safety awareness, pride of their own technology, and education for nuclear power frame. These findings are expected to be used as basic data to establish a policy for environmental risk communication concerning nuclear power in Northeast Asia.

This study aims to suggest qualitative change in local government's policy for living environment crisis using the case of environmental policy for fine particulate matter in Korea. It also proposes how to implement such change based on a comparison analysis with the data from six metropolitan governments in Korea including Seoul. The results of this study were as follows. First, the legal and institutional policy should focus more on prevention and preparation than forecasting or warning. Second, professionalization and systematization are required for designing the relevant policy organizations. Third, inter-regional cooperation network would be needed for more effective managements of living environment crisis, despite the difficulty to reach out the fundamental solution for the issues of fine particulate matter during a short period of time.