The Busan Metropolitan City was positioned, to lead the culture and industry around the various maritime fields such as marine logistics, offshore plants, shipbuilding, fishing, tourism, and leisure sports, Busan even calls itself Korea's 'Marine Capi...
The Busan Metropolitan City was positioned, to lead the culture and industry around the various maritime fields such as marine logistics, offshore plants, shipbuilding, fishing, tourism, and leisure sports, Busan even calls itself Korea's 'Marine Capital'. However, recently the Sewol Ferry Disaster and smaller marine accidents that regularly occur in the Busan coastal area, have amplified the concern and interest in marine safety among citizens.
In this study, marine safety issues such as maritime hazards and risks and marine accidents that occurred in the Busan coastal area arc evaluated on the basis of statistical and case analysis in order to design the local government based marine safety management system. The factors related to safety in maritime activities such as shipping, fisheries, tourism, leisure, and passenger transportation arc analyzed and seven key issues to be solved are suggested. Through reviewing and comparing local government disaster and safety organizations on land and at sea, it was found that Busan has not yet established a comprehensive marine safety organization. Based on this finding, we designed, a marine safety organization system far the Busan city government. This organization is based on the four guiding principles: prevention- preparation-response-recovery. The roles and functions of Busan city government personnel needed during a maritime disaster are listed and classified.
On the basis of this study, it seems that the best course of action is to conduct a marine safety survey of the Busan coastal area and. then to crate a Marine Safety Master Plan. This plan will be customized for Busan, independent of, but in cooperation with, the marine incident planning performed by the central government. It is necessary to further research systematically for building a maritime disaster management system of Busan.