Overseas Training > 2011 > Junho Choi
Junho Choi
Internship for enhancing risk management system in Korea
Division of Regional and Disaster Management Information Systems, Department of Social Informatics, Graduate School of Informatics
Place of stay: NIDP (National Institute for Disaster Prevenetion), South Korea
Term: January 22 - February 1, 2011
Korea suffers from natural disasters almost every year, especially flooding. I always ask myself 'why do the same kind of disasters
occur repeatedly in Korea?', 'why don`t risk perceptions and risk
management systems about disasters in Korea improve?' To solve the
questions and search the answers, I have been in NIDP in Korea
(2011.1.22 - 2011.2.1). NIDP members enough know the infrastructure
shortage about risk management system in Korea. So, it seems like that
they work hard for improving the system in Korea. I took encouragement
from their wills. I gathered important data about Korea risk management
from all sources available and agitated the Korea risk management
problems. The NIDP members helped me very much during the internship
period. In addition, discussions with young researchers were very
interesting to me.
And we promised to help each other to enhance risk management in Korea
and Japan continuously.
