Abstract
This chapter examines the impact of natural disasters on disaster management systems and policy in Korea. This chapter also examines how disaster management systems and policies have been changed and adapted to increase communities’ capacity to cope with disasters and to reduce disaster risk over time. This chapter compares natural disaster policies in terms of the disaster mitigation perspective in Korea and discusses challenges and issues relating to current disaster management in practice to increase a community’s capacity to deal effectively with future disasters. In addition, this chapter discusses the cause and effect relationship between disasters and development through a case example of the 2011 Seoul flood. The concluding part of this chapter suggests some recommendations for improving disaster management to build a disaster resilient community.
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