National Disaster Management System: COVID-19 Case in Korea.

ABSTRACT: The COVID-19 pandemic poses unprecedented challenges for governments and societies around the world and represents a global crisis of hitherto unexperienced proportions. Our research seeks to analyse disaster management systems from a national perspective by examining the Korean management of the COVID-19 crisis according to a four-phase epidemiological disaster management system. Utilising a meta-study, official documents, reports and interviews, we explore the role of the control tower mechanism related to the life-cycle of disaster management, and Korea's sustainable containment strategy. This study begins with a discussion of the crisis and disaster management literature and provides specific information related to the Korean government's response to COVID-19. It continues by detailing

SUBMITTER: Kim J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7559530 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature