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Disaster Risk Management and Korean Policies

Yonsei University

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In the past, developing countries such as Korea lacked guidelines for exploring effective policies for disaster-resilient growth, resulting in unnecessary sacrifices in terms of time, resources, and human capital. Through the lessons learned by Korea, currently developing countries facing socio-economic development can build disaster resilience without sacrifices.
Utilizing Korea's sound practices and institutional reforms, this course provides a valuable roadmap to prevent and mitigate the catastrophic effects of disasters. This course also provides insightful inspiration about what are the characteristics and the historical path of major disasters; how major disasters arise and affect policy changes; how science and technology can be used to explore and find solutions to complex tasks; and especially, what nations and institutes need to do reduce disaster risk and mitigate death and economic turmoil in the wake of disasters.
Throught this, students will be able to explain not only what is disaster risk management but also what must be done for a disaster resilent future.

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Intermediate Level

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Approx. 19 hours to complete

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What you will learn

Can explain how humans have understood and accepted disasters and how they have worked to reduce them.
Can summarize the theories that explain the

Skills you will gain

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Geospatial Information System

Flexible deadlines

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Shareable Certificate

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Intermediate Level

No prerequisite required

Approx. 19 hours to complete

English

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Instructor

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4.6/5 (24 Ratings)

Sohn, Hong-Gyoo

Professor, School of Civil & Environmental Engineering

3,905 Learners

1 Course

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Yonsei University

Yonsei University was established in 1885 and is the oldest private university in Korea.

Yonsei’s main campus is situated minutes away from the economic, political, and cultural centers of Seoul’s metropolitan downtown. Yonsei has 3,500 eminent faculty members who are conducting cutting-edge research across all academic disciplines. There are 18 graduate schools, 22 colleges and 133 subsidiary institutions hosting a selective pool of students from around the world. Yonsei is proud of its history and reputation as a leading institution of higher education and research in Asia.

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Syllabus - What you will learn from this course

Week1

Week 1

2 hours to complete

Conceptual framework for disaster risk management

2 hours to complete

1 video (Total 13 min), 1 reading, 1 quiz

Week2

Week 2

8 hours to complete

Disasters in Korea

8 hours to complete

6 videos (Total 65 min), 5 readings, 5 quizzes

6 videos

Disaster Risk Management4mEvolutionary Trajectory12mDisaster Theories13mMajor Disasters and Following Response Evolution14mPower-law distribution 18mPower-law distribution 211m

5 readings

Disaster Risk Management30mEvolutionary Trajectory30mDisaster Theories1h 10mMajor Disasters and Following Response Evolution1h 30mPower-law distribution30m

5 practice exercises

Disaster Risk Management30mEvolutionary Trajectory30mDisaster Theories30mMajor Disasters and Following Response Evolution30mPower-law distribution15m

Week3

Week 3

2 hours to complete

Sound DRM policies of Korea

2 hours to complete

2 videos (Total 11 min), 2 readings, 2 quizzes

Week4

Week 4

4 hours to complete

Science and Technology for Disaster Risk Management

4 hours to complete

4 videos (Total 29 min), 5 readings, 1 quiz

4 videos

Analysis of Disaster Damage using Geospatial Information 17mAnalysis of Disaster Damage using Geospatial Information 29mMoving platform for Acquiring On-site Disaster Information4mPractice of SFDRR Indicator using Korean Statistical Data6m

5 readings

Analysis of Disaster Damage using Geospatial Information 130mAnalysis of Disaster Damage using Geospatial Information 240mMoving platform for Acquiring On-site Disaster Information1hPractice of SFDRR Indicator using Korean Statistical Data10mPractice of SFDRR Indicator using Korean Statistical Data30m

1 practice exercise

Science and Technology for Disaster Risk Reduction33m

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TOP REVIEWS FROM DISASTER RISK MANAGEMENT AND KOREAN POLICIES

by NMJan 29, 2021

Thank you for the knowledge. It's highly important to look at "tail" risks, and Korean experience in disaster management is significant.

by FJNov 3, 2020

Very informative, and useful for professionals under disaster risk management. Individuals in this course were taught various ways about DRM that can be applied to their jobs.

by JGOct 30, 2022

This course is very informative to this generation we are into. You can learn best practices from Korea in a way how they have handled previous disaster.

by SGAug 27, 2021

The course was very helpfull for me,because i am leading the risk Assessment mainly on DRR for the two governorate of iraq. I am in the middle of the practices for the ECHO -DRR/WASH project

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