Abstract
In spite of Korean governments’ efforts, many emergency management practitioners wonder whether what is actually being practiced is selective or comprehensive management. Using a qualitative content analysis and experiences in practice, the article analyzes the barriers to selective emergency management and the paths to comprehensive emergency management via the same three management elements: stakeholders, phases of the emergency management lifecycle, and hazards and impacts. Four analytical levels are considered: central government level, industry level, community level, and household level. Korea, despite its self-praise, has to transform its selective emergency management into comprehensive emergency management in time.
Highlights
Officials of the South Korean government have recently and frequently boasted that Korea has made considerable progress in implementing comprehensive emergency management
This article has tried to show that Korea relies heavily upon selective emergency management, for the purpose of suggesting ways to achieve comprehensive emergency management
The key finding of the study is that Korea should try to shift from selective to comprehensive emergency management
Summary
Officials of the South Korean (hereinafter Korean) government have recently and frequently boasted that Korea has made considerable progress in implementing comprehensive emergency management. They have officially proclaimed that Korea has improved many aspects of comprehensive emergency management, such as all stakeholders, the four phases of the emergency management lifecycle, and all hazards and related impacts, at every level. Many emergency management practitioners wonder whether what is being practiced is selective or comprehensive management, considering that there is room for improvement in terms of comprehensive emergency management. It is necessary to study, as a major research question, whether or not Korea has really progressed in comprehensive emergency management
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