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A Study on the Improvement of Disaster Relief Aid

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  • Park, Sang Hyun (Department of Energy Safety Engineering, The Graduate School of Energy and Environment, Seoul National University of Science and Technology) ;
  • Kim, Chan-O (Department of Energy Safety Engineering, The Graduate School of Energy and Environment, Seoul National University of Science and Technology)
  • 박상현 (서울과학기술대학교 에너지환경대학원 에너지안전공학과) ;
  • 김찬오 (서울과학기술대학교 에너지환경대학원 에너지안전공학과)
  • Received : 2018.03.24
  • Accepted : 2018.04.20
  • Published : 2018.04.30
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Abstract

Disaster relief goods are those that help disaster victims to carry on ordinary life in a disaster. Along with the improvement of national economic level and raise of people's standard of living and diversified lifestyles, demands for relief goods in a disaster are also being diversified. In step with frequent and rather large-scale occurrence of disasters, diversity of related goods for disaster relief is likely to be needed ever more in the future, while more assistance to disaster victims is required from the aspect of securing their normal daily lives. To this end, the study conducted comparative analysis of how Korea, the US and Japan managed disaster relief goods and also examined, analyzed the opinions regarding the betterment of relief goods among disaster victims and ordinary people and civil servants in charge. Based on this, the study suggested the improvement draft for disaster relief goods, the point of which was to minimize disaster relief goods commonly prepared by the central government with goods that may assist victims' lives in shelters, while local governments may prepare relief goods appropriately according to actual situation.

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