SEOUL, Nov. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — Facts and circumstances revealed one after another after last Saturday’s tragic crowd crush in Seoul seem to indicate that police’s crisis management and command systems were in a mess at the time of the unfolding disaster. Police’s emergency response system, including the handling of urgent calls for help and [...]
![[Feature] What Went Wrong?: Korea’s Risk Management System in Shambles](http://koreabizwire.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/Bounty_Sinking_2012-800x450.jpg "[Feature] What Went Wrong?: Korea’s Risk Management System in Shambles")
SEOUL, Korea, April 28, 2014 (Korea Bizwire) – Following the April 16 ferry accident that killed 300 including the still missing for more than 10 days, the whole nation is in a soul-searching mode reflecting on what went wrong. The country has grown at a breakneck pace for the past five decades without really thinking [...]
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., April 25, 2014 (Korea Bizwire) – While Korea has displayed a collective failure when it comes to crisis management systems encountered by the tragic ferry sinking accident, the US seems to have learned a valuable lesson from its previous natural disaster and is on a path to better equip itself with more “resilient” [...]