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Areas close to the sea, such as Pohang, North Gyeongsang Province, where human casualties were large this time, should pay more attention to typhoons and torrential rains.
So, the government has also created a risk assessment map since last year, and we obtained the map exclusively.
This is an analysis of which regions in Korea are more vulnerable to disasters, and the Pohang region was a very dangerous grade 5.
Reporters Jang Min-seong and Yoo Su-hwan will deliver this in turn.
<Reporter Min-seong Jang> This
is a map of the national coastal disaster impact index obtained by SBS.
This map prepared by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Research Institute and managed by the Ministry of Oceans and Fisheries has two main purposes.
This is to prevent reckless development of coastal areas and to prevent damage caused by natural disasters or climate change.
The degree of vulnerability is assessed by synthesizing the extent of exposure to disasters such as typhoons, the population of the area, and the distribution of industrial complexes.
Let's look at the map.
From dark green to red, you can see this coloration for each coastal zone across the country.
The risk assessment is different for each color. Level 1 with very low disaster risk is marked in dark green, Level 2 is light green, Level 3 is yellow, Level 4 with 'high' risk is orange, and Level 5 with very high risk is marked in red. .
If you look at Jeju, Gyeongnam, Busan, and Pohang, where Typhoon Hinnamno passed through, the 4th and 5th levels are densely packed.
Let's take a closer look at the Pohang area, which suffered the most from the typhoon.
Levels 1 to 3 are almost non-existent, and grades 4 and 5, orange and red markings run along the shoreline.
The central government and each local government implement the 'Coastal Maintenance Project' to prevent and minimize disasters while sharing the evaluation results.
However, there are many places where this maintenance project is not properly implemented.
If you look at Pohang City, which has many 'grade 5' sections, it is said that although a maintenance project plan has been established, the actual implementation is mostly news of reductions.
Reporter Yoo Su-hwan covered the site and what was the reason.
(Video coverage: Kim Heung-gi·Kim Seong-il, video editing: Choi Hye-young, CG: Jang Seong-beom·Choi Jae-young)
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<Reporter Yoo Su-hwan> This
market is located right in front of Guryongpo, Pohang.
Combined with a lot of rain and overflowing sea water in a short period of time, this market area says the water has risen to my waist level in 30 minutes.
[Pohang Guryongpo Market Merchant: There is a lot of water here.
From here to the end, the water starts to fill up and the seawater overflows...
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To prevent such damage, Pohang City established the 3rd Basic Plan for coastal maintenance, including the Guryongpo District, last year.
According to the plan, it is written that about 30m of stones and about 10,000m3 of sand should be piled up here at Guryongpo Beach.
But the business hasn't even started yet.
Coastal maintenance projects prevent disasters by installing breakwaters in the sea or piling up sand and stones on the coast.
Budget is a stumbling block.
'Projects within the port area' are funded by the government, and the local government's budget is invested in the small-scale maintenance projects for 'regions outside of the port area'.
The Guryongpo maintenance project is outside the port area.
Local governments with poor finances can receive 70% of the maintenance project budget from the Special Account for Balanced National Development.
[Pohang City Hall official: The budget was not secured.
When we raise the national budget, we keep raising it a little bit, but since last year, we have...
.
Since we are reviewing this urgently...
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In addition, since the budget for balanced development can be voluntarily organized by local governments, if it is judged that there is less urgency, the priority of the maintenance project is lowered to the project for the benefit of residents.
As a result, over the past five years, the budget execution rate for national implementation and maintenance projects has reached 90%, but local government projects are only around 50%.
This is why the responsibility for poor coastal maintenance cannot be shifted to the responsibility of local governments alone.
[Shin Jeong-hoon / Democratic Party Member: The coastal disaster prevention project is directly related to the safety of the people, so I think the state should take responsibility for the entire project.]
For example, for erosion control projects implemented for disaster prevention purposes, such as coastal maintenance projects, the government has set an average annual budget of 150 billion won for general accounting and directly manages them.
(Video coverage: Kim Yong-woo, video editing: Park Jeong-sam)