2018, Vol.14, No.7

Crisisonomy 2023 KCI Impact Factor : 0.64

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

This descriptive study attempted to identify the extent to which the global competency levels of overseas volunteers affected their psychological well-being. The data were collected through an online survey from 147 volunteers who were selected from the World Friends Korea members and are currently volunteering overseas. On average, participants’ global competency level was moderate, and the most influential sub-factors included cross-cultural acceptance and challenging spirit. Psychological well-being sub-factors was highly associated with their life goals and personal growth, and global competency sub-factors such as global self-efficacy, interpersonal flexibility, stress tolerance, and challenging spirit significantly influenced psychological well-being. In conclusion, the higher participants’ global competency levels were, the higher was their psychological well-being. Future studies are recommended to develop not only a quantitative tool to measure overseas volunteers’ global competency, but also a qualitative study to better understand their psychological well-being.

The purpose of this study was to analyze the current status and problems of school safety education in Korea and propose various improvement issues. The legal content of school safety education was mainly concerned with the handling and compensation of accidents. School safety education had only quantitative standards without any qualitative evaluations. Middle and high schools had a higher percentage of non-homeroom teachers than elementary schools. Many middle schools set aside “school safety teachers”, but few elementary schools had them. Based on these analyses, the study suggested various improvement issues such as legal maintenance, governance establishment, expertise reinforcement, statistical DB building, and a consultative body for related agencies for the development of school safety education.

This study investigated the response manual to cope with chemical accidents and analyzed its applicability to domestic accidents in Korea. It is found that the response system has been property established to address large-scale chemical accidents as a national disaster, while the response manual has been difficult to be adopted to handle small-scale accidents. This study analyzed the cases of domestic chemical accidents which were inadequately responded by type. The findings include that fire accidents involving metallic materials with high water reactivity have been expanded due to improper spray of water to extinguish fire at the early stage of response. Spills or leaks often have failed to secure golden time due to delays in initial reporting, resulting in ineffective early response and expanded damages to residents and the environment. This study suggested that the accident response organizations in Korea should respond to chemical accidents at an early stage with accurate information and build up an effective response system for each stage of accident by prompt sharing of information.