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This study aims to strengthen and improve the evaluation system for national critical infrastructure protection by considering the importance of such infrastructure and the key feature of interdependency. This research analyzed the changing trends of the national critical infrastructure protection plan in the United States (NIPP-2006, NIPP-2009, NIPP-2013) to derive implications and propose a plan for developing the evaluation system for national infra protection. As a result of the analysis, the problems of Korean NIPP are as follows; First, the national goal of protecting national critical infrastructure is unclear. Second, understanding of the interdependence and independence of the national critical infrastructure is relatively weak due to the lack of national infra protection goals. Third, it is a matter of utilizing the evaluation results of the National Critical Infrastructure Protection Plan. Therefore, it is judged that it is time to consider changing the fundamental approach to the national critical infrastructure protection system and resetting the direction of the protection plan.

This study intends to create a detailed plan for establishing a fire safety education and training center in Busan Metropolitan City. It seeks to analyze the current disaster environment in Busan and propose directions for enhancing fire education. Recent updates in the disaster and accident risk assessment for Busan indicate a rising fire risk, necessitating targeted strategies to address this issue. The existing Korean firefighting schools lack alignment with local disaster characteristics. While comprehensive safety experience centers are operational, they face challenges due to unplanned construction and operation. In response, an urgent need exists to develop a fire safety education and training center tailored to Busan's disaster environment. A comparison of domestic fire schools, safety experience centers, and international fire education underscores that a uniform approach to fire education in Korea isn't suitable for Busan's evolving disaster landscape. Thus, the objective is to establish a Busan-specific fire safety education platform to better address the area's disaster realities and enhance fire safety education in line with citizen needs.

YouTube is a platform that delivers video content on diverse topics and enables communication, making it the most utilized service for conveying knowledge and exchanging information. The Korean Army is also proactively operating official Defense YouTube channels related to the military and producing videos to promote a positive perception and instill faith in the military among the general public and soldiers. However, there is a lack of research on the current status of the content and societal perceptions of defense-related channels. To understand societal awareness, we qualitatively analyzed video content and comments. In addition, we used big data analysis methods such as keyword derivation, term frequency analysis, word cloud visualization, word association analysis, and sentiment analysis of comments based on a Korean sentiment dictionary. These analyses identify current defense channel strategies and society's awareness of these strategies and provide a foundation for improving and perfecting future video creation and operation processes.

This study aims to enhance government leadership in responding to the climate crisis by strengthening the application of new media communication. In the era of new media, we can get climate information quickly and easily, which brings new opportunities and challenges for the government to deal with the climate crisis. There are many deficiencies in the government's new media services in response to the climate crisis. The content and ways of communication are relatively simple, and the ability to interact with the public is insufficient; failure to establish cooperation mechanisms with multiple organizations; the ability and quality of the government to make use of new media to publicize the climate crisis should be improved; government needs to improve its level of political inquiry and handling through new media. Therefore, we suggest that the government should make reasonable use of new media to increase the publicity of the climate crisis, leverage external forces to diversify the response to the climate crisis, establish a new media public communication platform, and improve the awareness and ability of government personnel to use new media.

As climate change is a global agenda that requires combined and collective global efforts, each country, developed or developing, needs to mainstream climate change policies, both domestic and external, to achieve its' Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) targets and ultimately the goals of the Paris Agreement (PA). For this end, climate finance, domestic or international, public or private, plays crucial role in the much-needed transitioning of carbon-intensive industries as well as adapting to the effects of climate change. This study, within the context of Climate-Related Development Finance (CRDF) for developing countries as part of bilateral Official Development Assistance (ODA), aims to derive policy implications for South Korea's CRDF by means of empirical analyses of CRDF determinants for Japan, Germany, and France, which are one of the largest donor countries of CRDF among member countries of the Development Assistance Committee for the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD DAC). South Korea should scale up CRDF to recipient countries to which export volume is comparatively higher, reflecting its economic interest, as largest donor countries do consider export volume in their CRDF allocations.

This study deduced improvement measures such as institutional deficiencies and improvement points for accompanying animals during disaster evacuation. As a result of using the AHP analysis technique for experts, the most important factors were factors that improved public awareness, such as developing promotional contents for companion animals and strengthening trust in the government. The population living with companion animals in Korea is continuously increasing, and it is judged that the issue of companion animals accompanying disaster shelters in the event of a disaster will become an issue in the future disaster and response field. Social consensus on companion animal standards is needed, and it is necessary to establish the concept of livestock and companion animal ranges and boundaries. This study is meaningful in that it presents the direction of experts' perceptions and the government's direction for measuring items of system and policy improvement, operational plan improvement, and public awareness improvement in companion animal accompaniment in disaster evacuation following a disaster.