Abstract
On October 29, 2022, when the end of the long social distancing that began with COVID-19 was visible, we again looked at the terrible reality that we did not want to face in South Korea. We must pay attention to the fact that it was a disaster that could be sufficiently prevented and managed regardless of cause and effect. In the meantime, Korea has been through various social disasters that can't be found in the world. Things like the collapse of Sampoong Department Store, the Daegu subway disaster, and the Sewol ferry disaster, all of which are difficult to enumerate. At that time, we have prepared laws and systems and reorganized the organization to prevent such absurd disasters from happening again. A manual for numerous disaster response was also created, and an education and training system was prepared to compare with the past. But in the end, the disaster that could have been prevented happened again. Rather than making something new and hasty, we need to take time to really seriously look at what is the problem and what needs to be changed.
 In the meantime, we have looked at disasters too fragmentarily only by their scale. Disasters have multiple sides. In particular, disasters in modernized societies are quite complex and require the intervention of various administrative agencies and social personnel. Even if you don't, you need to think about whether it's right to create an additional manual again in a complicated and too diverse manual. Now, the manual should be simplified based on authority and responsibility. It should not happen to study manuals at disaster sites where 1 minute 1 second is urgent.
 The existing legal system, which is divided into natural and social disasters, also needs to be overhauled. While talking about the importance of complex disasters, maintaining a legal system that requires response organizations to move separately is inevitably defenseless against various multiple and complex disasters that will occur in the future. The goal should not be to figure out the number of victims at the disaster site and prepare a recovery headquarters, but to prevent more victims from occurring.
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