This year, “earthquake” has been a hot issue in Korea. Earthquakes in Gyeongju reminded us that Korea is no longer a safe place from earthquakes, so we need to be prepared for them. Most Koreans know that seismic designs are needed for the existing buildings, but it has not been put to practice yet.

It was pretty shocking that the buildings in HUFS are not seismically reinforced, especially those that had been built in 1990s. But I do not think that school takes this problem seriously as well because people still have stereotype that Korea is safe even though we have experienced several big earthquakes. Then what can we do to solve these serious problems? As the article said, specific earthquake manuals need to be created. We cannot wait until the buildings are seismically reinforced.

We should know how to get through an earthquake when it strikes in the future. And school needs to provide the earthquake response education regularly.We should break the fixed idea where we live is no longer safe from earthquakes.

Woo So-won
Business Administration Division '16

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