• Journal of the Korean Society of Marine Environment & Safety
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• v.18 no.4
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• pp.331-335
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• 2012

On January 13th 2012 Italian flag Costa Concordia was partly sunk. The ship was carrying 4,252 passengers and crew; in the next few days the bodies of 30 people were found. Two are still missing. Two South Korean passengers and an Italian crew member was rescued from the ship on January 15th, more than 24 hours after the accident. As of June 18th 2012 (The date of presentation) around 32 people had not been accounted for. In this paper, it is viewed and pointed out the cause, problem, and implication for the future. As a result, intelligent innovative evacuation system for the VLPS (Very Large Passenger Ship) should be set up in terms of international maritime safety.

• Fire Science and Engineering
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• v.34 no.3
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• pp.49-57
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• 2020

Apartment buildings are becoming taller and more densely populated with the advancements in science and the development of cities, Consequently, various amenities and safety facilities are being developed to improve the quality of life for residents. However, according to statistics, the number of casualties in apartments accounts for a high proportion of accidents, and the leading cause of the casualties is smoke emitted from fires while sleeping at night. Although it is best to install separate indoor facilities in apartments to minimize smoke damages to occupants, it is useful to minimize the smoke damages by utilizing the installed facilities while reducing the financial burden of occupants. Based on the review, the heat exchanger ventilation system and the kitchen collective exhaust system were selected, and the feasibility of these systems was verified through fire simulation. From the verification results, the available safe egress time improved by 27, 30, and 35 s on the 25th, 35th, 50th floors, respectively.

• Fire Science and Engineering
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• v.34 no.2
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• pp.30-40
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• 2020

In the event of a fire and a disaster, prompt and accurate alarms inside and outside the building are directly related to the minimization of damage and the success of life evacuation. However, due to unwanted fire alarms in automated fire detection systems, the number of dispatches by misunderstanding in the 119 service is increasing. This causes the insensitivity to the safety of building managers and the waste of the fire-fighting power. Therefore, in this study, the statistical databases and literature on unwanted fire alarms in Korea and abroad (USA, UK) were identified and the management systems for unwanted fire alarms were compared and analyzed to identify problems of statistics in the management systems for unwanted fire alarms.

• The Journal of the Convergence on Culture Technology
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• v.4 no.1
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• pp.299-306
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• 2018

As recent Jecheon and Milyang fire cases show, the need for fire disaster training to prepare for a fire disaster continues to grow. In the event of a disaster, people become mentally confused and are called disaster personalities. In order to survive in a disaster, it is necessary to develop the power to overcome the disaster personality by experiencing the disaster situation in advance. Therefore, training to overcome disaster personality is needed, and virtual reality can be a good training means in that it can experience without physical space. In addition, periodic actual disaster evacuation drills should be carried out to compensate for the shortcomings of virtual reality. In order to introduce fire disaster drill using virtual reality and to spread it to the public, the Korea National VR project should be introduced which benchmarked national PC project which succeeded in the past informatization project. Besides, the Korea National Safety Point system should be integrated to cover disaster preparedness training and building reinforcement. If the national VR project and the national safety point system are introduced successfully, Korea will be the basis for escaping the disgraceful nickname of 'disaster republic'.

• Journal of the Korean Association of Geographic Information Studies
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• v.17 no.4
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• pp.179-188
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• 2014

Social overhead capital (SOC) facilities are being threatened continuously by abnormal climate events that are increasing globally. For disaster response, rapid decision making on evacuation routes and other matters is critical. For this purpose, spatiotemporal information that combine data on disasters and SOC facilities needs to be utilized. This information is separately collected by government agencies and public organizations, and is not managed in an integrated manner. For rapid disaster response, an integrated management of separately collected disaster data and the creation of such information as the safety and damages on SOC facilities are required. To achieve this goal, it is essential to build inventories that integrate all the related information to support decision making indispensable for disaster response. In this study, a development plan for an integrated inventory management system based on the management and connection of inventories to support rapid decision making for disaster response is proposed. This system can collect and standardize data related to disasters and SOC facilities that are being managed separately and provide integrated information in line with the needs of users. The proposed system can be used as a decision making tool for proactive disaster response.

• Journal of the Society of Disaster Information
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• v.9 no.1
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• pp.78-86
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• 2013

Caused by the Cheonanham attack and the Yeonpyeongdo bombardment occurred a few years ago, and the recent North Korea's nuclear test, the war crisis between South and North Korea has been increasing. Accordingly, an interest in obtaining a temporary residential space, for the case of the outbreak of war, where people can reside safely over a period of time has been escalating. However, in the disaster relief planning guidelines of the National Emergency Management Agency, the standards on the temporary residential spaces in preparation for storm and flood or earthquake are included, but the standards on the ones in responding to war are not yet equipped. In particular, the standards on the underground temporary residential spaces that can accommodate massive victims should be developed in preparation. In this study, through a requirements analysis based on the survey of war victims and a comparative analysis between disaster-related laws and regulations, the direction of relevant system improvement for the utilization of temporary residential spaces in responding to war is established.

• Journal of the Society of Disaster Information
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• v.10 no.1
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• pp.84-90
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• 2014

During earthquake, the safety control plane at home is very important to prepare the turnover and falling accident of furniture as a disaster measures. But a lot of people might not have knowledge and education on the safety control plane at home such as the fixing of furniture. Therefore, in this study, the test application of iPhone was developed to enlighten and educate them using the smart phone. Through this application, residents, furniture store employees, moving service workers, builders and etc. will be able to understand the safety control plane at home.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Disaster Information Conference
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• 2022.10a
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• pp.139-140
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• 2022

본 연구는 재난발생 시 현장 상황 판단 및 대응 능력이 현저히 떨어지는 안전취약계층 중 장애인과 노인이 재난정보를 받고 안전하게 대피·대응할 수 있도록 지원하는 시스템의 시범적용에 대한 것이다. 재난정보 전달 및 대피지원 시스템은 재난에 취약한 장애인과 노인이 재난상황에서 각각의 취약 특성을 고려하여 재난 위기상황에 대응하도록 설계 하였으며, 실내 위치측정에 관한 공간정보 표준 및 데이터 구축과 개발한 시스템을 설치하고 구현할 수 있는 실내 공간을 선정하여 시범적으로 적용하였다. 재난정보 및 대피지원 시스템의 시범적용을 위해 선정된 시설의 실내 공간정보 구축 및 현행화를 통해 실내 대피경로를 구축하고, 실제 시범적용을 통해 보완하는 과정을 수행하였다. 장애인·노인 대상 재난정보 전달 및 대피지원 서비스 구축을 위해 실내에서 재난발생 시 재난정보 데이터를 실시간으로 수집하고 스마트폰과 연계할 수 있는 연계 모듈을 개발하였다. 또한 재난정보를 스마트폰에 알릴 수 있는 알람 푸시 모듈, 재난정보 및 대피 안내 모듈과 시각 장애인의 실내 공간 인지를 위한 음성안내 모듈을 개발하였다. 본 연구의 목적은 IoT 기반의 통합관제 기술을 활용하는 서비스 제공을 통해서 정보전달의 사각지대를 해소하고 장애인·노인의 효율적 재난 대응을 위해 맞춤형 재난정보 전달 및 대피지원 서비스를 구축하고 시범적용의 과정을 통해 문제점을 보완하여 최종적으로 재난으로부터 안전취약계층의 안전성을 향상시키는데 목적이 있다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2019.05a
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• pp.392-394
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• 2019

Tunnels and subterranean roads, which are representative evacuation facilities for national or regional disasters, have radio relay broadcasting facilities for legal reasons and convenience reasons. However, this system is limited to radio broadcasting and it is impossible to effectively communicate disaster or emergency situations that occur locally due to broadcasting of national broadcasting without DMB broadcasting. In order to improve this, we construct a remote disaster broadcasting system at each regional disaster station and implement a system to transmit it to each tunnel using internet or LTE network. The system in the tunnel transmits the emergency broadcasting signal through the existing relay equipment through the modulator which decodes the SMS, the media file, the real time broadcasting or the image received by the digital signal and converts it into FM and DMB frequency. The method proposed and implemented in this study can be used to provide efficient information and remote field control in case of emergency in tunnel and underground roadway.

• Journal of Multimedia Information System
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• v.7 no.2
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• pp.147-156
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• 2020

The author Nakajima was involved in the field of disaster communications and emergency medical care as guest research scientist at the Fukushima Nuclear Accident Independent Investigation Commission established by the National Diet of Japan and reviewer of the Commission's report, and Kurokawa was the chairman of this Commission. Looking back over a decade, we are on the liability issue of bureaucrats and telecom operators, so it's becoming clear what was hidden at the time. The battery of NTT DoCoMo's mobile phone repeaters had a capacity of only about 24 hours, and communication failures increased after one day. The Government also failed to issue an announcement of "Vent from reactor" under the Telecommunications Act Article No. 129. This mistake lost the opportunity to use the third-party telecommunications (e.g. taxi radios). Furthermore, as a result of LASCOM (telecommunications satellite network for local governments via GEO) and a variety of unexpected communication failures, the evacuation order "Escape!" could not be notified to the general public well. As a result, the general public was exposed to unnecessary radiation exposure. Such bureaucratic slow action in emergencies is common in the response to the 2020 coronavirus.