Gwangju City Publishes 'Disaster Safety Statistical Yearbook'

[Asia Economy Honam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Park Seon-gang] The Gwangju Metropolitan City announced on the 29th that it has published the "2019 Gwangju Disaster Safety Statistical Yearbook (as of December 31, 2018)," which compiles disaster safety statistical data from 2014 to 2018 over five years.

Now in its third year of publication, the statistical yearbook is a comprehensive statistical resource on disaster safety in Gwangju City, consisting of a total of 39 items across three fields: ▲natural disasters ▲social disasters ▲safety management.

In particular, the data from the past five years have been organized in an easy-to-understand manner to systematically grasp and analyze the causes and damage situations by disaster type, as well as the status of disaster prevention, response, and recovery.

According to natural disaster statistics, during this period, the Gwangju area experienced property damage amounting to 97 million KRW and four casualties (due to heatwaves), with recovery costs supported totaling 3.313 billion KRW, caused by heavy rain, heavy snow, and heatwaves.

Property damage by type was in the order of heavy rain (31 million KRW) and heavy snow (66 million KRW), while recovery costs were typhoons (5 million KRW) and heavy rain (3.027 billion KRW).

Social disasters, including traffic accidents, fires, and forest fires, resulted in property damage of 21 billion KRW and 962 deaths.

By type, the number of deaths was in the order of traffic accidents (475), infectious diseases (282), industrial accidents (98), water-related accidents (drowning) (35), and fires (31).

The safety management field is categorized by the number of occurrences of suicides, crimes, rescue and emergency services, as well as by target, month, and age group, and also includes the status of children's playground facilities, civil defense, and chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear (CBRN) equipment.

Gwangju City plans to publish disaster safety statistical data annually and intends to continuously promote citizen action guidelines by analyzing frequently occurring disaster types on a monthly basis based on the statistical data.

Kim Kyung-mi, the city's Safety Policy Officer, said, "We hope this statistical yearbook will help improve understanding in the field of disaster safety and be used as useful data for policy formulation and implementation."

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