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The Characteristics Of The Volunteer Activities And Those Managing System For Restoring Disaster

Yeo, Myung-Kil, Rye, Hye-Sun, Jeon, G. and Hong, Won-Hwa, 2004. The Characteristics Of The Volunteer Activities And Those Managing System For Restoring Disaster. AOFST 6


ABSTRACT

A fire was broken out at Junganglo of Daegu subway station. It might be ended as just a fire happening but proceeded to the disaster with huge damages because of incomplete disaster prevention system lack of understanding and specialization about this kind of disaster. There are many fields of disaster prevention system. If even one of those fields are ignored , the damage from the disaster might be grown. As volunteer is a perception as a field of social well-being, we've not been heavily focused on this volunteer system for the disaster yet. The volunteer teams and individual took part in the beginning of restoring for the disaster. But some voluntary teams went back in a few days and activity of volunteers wasn't continued until completion of the restoration. At first, a lot of volunteer rushed into typical activity such as providing meals. Latter, the restoring had problems to keep voluntary activity continuously because lacking any supports from government organization therefore, we could understand that our society system dosen't have the completed controlling and supporting volunteer system for the disaster



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