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Korean island communities face structurally lower disaster response and recovery capacity than mainland areas because rapid aging, geographic isolation, fragile infrastructure, and limited emergency resources are concentrated in the same places. The aging rate in island areas is about 46%, far above the national average of about 20%, while many islands also have aging building stock, very limited formal shelters, insufficient emergency stockpiles, and weak response bases. Because isolation and ferry cancellations can delay outside assistance, disasters in islands are not simply events of physical exposure but compound crises involving delayed evacuation, interrupted care, disruption of essential services, and prolonged recovery. This paper argues that island disaster policy in Korea should move beyond mainland-oriented emergency management and adopt the Smart Island approach as a necessary strategy for recovery and reconstruction. In this study, Smart Island is not understood as a collection of digital devices, but as an ICT-enabled, place-based governance platform that connects preparedness, response, recovery, and long-term adaptation under conditions of insularity, low density, and aging communities. The framework combines ISLAND-TI, which diagnoses island conditions through four paired dimensions—connectivity/self-reliance, innovation/practicality, efficiency/acceptability, and resilience/flexibility—with STIM, which translates those diagnoses into strategies across society, technology, institutions, and management. From this perspective, recovery planning for Korean islands should be reorganized through a Build Back Better approach that integrates self-sustaining survival hubs, local command systems, medical and psychosocial support, and information delivery nodes. Key priorities include backup power, satellite communication, water, food, and medicine stockpiles, continuity of care for older adults, community-based training, distributed energy systems, and climate-adaptive land-use planning. Ultimately, the smartness of an island should be judged not by the amount of digital equipment it possesses, but by how effectively survival infrastructure, ICT, institutions, and community capacity are combined to support response, recovery, reconstruction, and long-term resilience.

저자

• Jaeho Kim [ Hyupsung University ]

참고문헌

발행기관

간행물

표지보기 관심저널 등록

• 간행물명

  한국재난정보학회 학술발표대회

• 간기

  부정기

• 수록기간

  2005~2026

• 십진분류

  KDC 338 DDC 361