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The Ministry of Public Administration and Security, the Seoul Metropolitan Government, and Yongsan-gu are in a hurry to shift responsibility to each other for the fact that the disaster text message was sent late right after the Itaewon disaster.
The government is also conducting a mock training to send such a disaster message, but it was confirmed as a result of the coverage that it was also lax.
Correspondent Kim Sang-min.
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On the day of the Itaewon disaster, the time when the Ministry of Public Administration and Security told Seoul and Yongsan-gu to send disaster messages was 10:53 p.m.
However, it was about an hour later when the Seoul Metropolitan Government sent the first disaster text message, and Yongsan-gu passed the day altogether.
In the event of a disaster, the 'Send within 20 minutes' Haran Ministry of Public Administration and Security training guidelines were not followed.
The Seoul Metropolitan Government blamed Yongsan-gu, saying that 'disaster text messages' must be sent from the relevant autonomous district.
Local governments are supposed to send text messages only for disasters that span two or more autonomous districts.
An investigation is currently underway on the delayed sending of disaster text messages in Yongsan-gu, but it seems that it was not able to properly cope with the nighttime disaster situation.
In front-line district offices, including Yongsan-gu, many employees who are unfamiliar with disaster work are also put on the night watch.
[Yongsan-gu Office Watch Office (Yesterday (9th) night): (Where are the departments (involved in watch duty)...) I am working in the Regional Policy Division, Social Welfare Division, Construction Management Division, Civil Civil Rights Division, and Administrative Support Division.
To compensate for this situation, the Ministry of Public Administration and Security is conducting a training to simulate the sending of disaster text messages, but even this was lax.
Because the Ministry of Public Administration and Security foretells the date of the mock drill without being held at random, the person in charge of disaster management stays on that day to receive training.
[Yongsan-gu Office Staff: Originally, you can do the on-call (training) as well, but in fact, because it has a score, one (disaster management person) does it all in order not to receive as much 'sufficiency' as possible.
A skilled person.]
[Kim Seong-ho/Director of Disaster Safety Management Division, Ministry of Public Administration and Security: I am very sorry for the fact that I was not able to send a disaster text message quickly.
] He said that he would improve it to send it in a timely manner.
(Video coverage: Kim Min-cheol, video editing: Yoon Tae-ho, CG: Kang Kyung-rim)
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