본문 바로가기
  • Home

The Trends of Crisis Emergency Management Research in Korea

  • Crisisonomy
  • Abbr : KRCEM
  • 2012, 8(3), pp.105-120
  • Publisher : Crisis and Emergency Management: Theory and Praxis
  • Research Area : Social Science > Public Policy > Public Policy in general

Ryu Sang Il 1 Lee, Min-kyu ORD ID 2 SEOKHWAN JUNG 3 Kang,Hyoung-Kee 2

1세한대학교
2충북대학교
3배재대학교

Accredited

ABSTRACT

This study is to review the trends in the research in crisis emergency management in Korea. For this purpose, we have used the method of network text analysis to carry out an analysis of research centrality of the field of crisis and emergency management in Korea with the 130 articles published in Journal of Crisis and Emergency Management(2003~2011). This is for investigating the connective relations among studies escaping from the frequency based research tendency among the existing studies in the analysis of research trends, and for approaching the trends in the research in crisis and emergency management in Korea from a novel perspective by grasping central research themes. As a result, first, the importance of research themes was grasped from the results of the frequency analysis as in the order of emergency management (19 times), crisis management (17 times), national crisis management (7 times), national crisis (6 times), terrorism (6 times), and emergency (5 times). Second, the results from the network analysis shows certain differences from the results of the frequency analysis as the centrality turned up in the order of ‘emergency,’ ‘crisis management,’ ‘terrorism,’ ‘emergency management,’ and ‘national crisis.’ This can be regarded as an output that shows the adequacy of this study which assumes that the network analysis considering all the actual connective relations can reveal more precise research patterns in the quantitative and qualitative dimensions than the tendency of the existing studies which designated that research themes with a high frequency are important. In conclusion, we can see from this study that research in crisis management is being carried out on very diverse sides (dimensions) in Korea, and ‘emergency,’ ‘emergency management,’ and ‘crisis management’ play the role of adjusting other single research themes as ‘emergency management,’ ‘crisis management’ and other research themes explaining them in the dimension of national crisis with ‘emergency’ being the center of research themes.

Citation status

* References for papers published after 2023 are currently being built.