논문

During the last couple of years, there have been numerous man-made disasters in Korea. A train derailment in Pusan, a bridge collapse and a gas explosion in residential areas in Seoul, another gas explosion at a subway station in Daegu, and last year the Sampoong Department Store collapse are but a few examples to mention. Since then there have been some efforts to remedy those problems which they have shown in dealing with those disasters.
As one of the efforts to remedy those problems in managing disasters, in this study, the author will discuss mainly the Incident Command System. The Incident Command System was developed after a series of wildland fires caused death, damage, and destruction in southern California in 1970. Now, the ICS has become adopted by a lot of local jurisdictions and emergency response agencies.
In this paper, the structure and operation of ICS will be analyzed in details. After that, it will be compared with the incident command model of City of Seoul and the pros and cons will be discussed.