This study performed a flood risk assessment using one of the multi criteria decision-making methods to identify the small stream basins with high risk of flooding and to determine the optimal small stream restoration measures by priority ranking for flood risk. The 12 representative factors for the flood risk assessment were carefully selected and constructed for the three main aspects, such as pressure factors, state factors and response factors including the government capacities under the pressure-state-response classification system for identifying the 212 small stream watersheds.The entropy weight coefficient method helps to reduce subjective judgments as well as calculate effective weighting coefficients. To evaluate the practical applications of the proposed method, the results from the preference ranking organization method for enrichment evaluation (PROMETHEE) with six preference functions are compared with the official priority ranking of flood risk assessment for the Small Stream Watershed Restoration Projects which is determined by the weighted method.Also, guidelines for the community-based restoration projects such as prevention or preparedness, sustainable development and resilient recovering have been suggested based on the three predicted priority ranking groups. It is expected that the flood risk assessment ranking ensured by full verification can help to establish optimal regional restoration plans against flooding disasters with respect to causes and characteristics of past flash flood.

Education on disaster prevention, one of the Non-structural Disaster Countermeasures, is being carried out by many institutions such as the "Central Civil Defense and Disaster Prevention Institute", other central or local government and related-institutions, in compliance with Article 34 of the Disaster and Safety Management Basic Act. Disaster prevention education, however, has been facing a lot of problems, as people still do not have enough educational opportunities to expand their skills in the field of disaster prevention. For example, lack of infrastructure such as educational facilities, experimental spaces and equipment has been an issue as well as the participatory learning methods such as tabletop exercise, role play, and field experience have not yet settled down. In other hand, traditional teaching methods such as supplier-oriented education are still the ones prevailing, therefore, it is not easy to obtain good results in disaster prevention education. In this sense, this study investigated the current problems in disaster prevention education, and sought ways to revitalize specific programs as means of enhancing the disaster prevention capabilities as followings. Firstly, this study emphasizes the importance of enactment of 'Act for Revitalizing Education and Training Experts in Disaster Prevention'. Secondly, it presents a way of enhancing educational infrastructure through the organizational extension of the existing National Disaster Management Institution. Lastly, it suggests the extension of consumer oriented educational curriculums and participatory learning methods along with constant feed-back system in disaster prevention education.

In Korea, natural disasters such as typhoons and floods occur frequently each year. Recently, however, due to climate change and other factors, the scale of damages from such natural disasters started to steadily increase. Our country existing relief goods management and distribution system, information is collected on the spot and then inputted into the National Disaster Management System (NDMS). Thus, the onsite work is duplicated in the office. Moreover, it takes much time to put the field information in order and the relief goods are managed manually, so the information cannot be shared in real time, which results in problems such as delays and duplicate payment of relief goods. To solve these problems, this research proposes the establishment of an information system for efficient management of relief goods based on U-IT. A mobile-based automated relief goods management system in which relief goods can be managed using a smartphone and Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology was developed, and the effectiveness of the system was analyzed. The analysis showed that the developed system is expected to effectively reduce Korea's budget for relief administration by 950 million won a year.

Major disaster relief in Korea is administered on the basis of the Disaster Relief Act which mainly aims for the relief of victims affected by natural disasters. There is, however, a growing need for the comprehensive relief that can cope with all kinds of disasters because the possibility of new and complex disasters always happens amid social, economic, and environmental changes, including low fertility, population aging, multiculturalism, and climate change. At the same time, due to the increasing numbers of elderly people and foreign workers, the establishment of laws and systems protecting the disaster minority has become an urgent task. Futhermore, several problems which relate to disaster relief funds and donations should be resolved. They must be delivered to the disaster victims promptly. And the poor management of the disaster relief supply which is focused on disaster relief kits only and the problem of the temporary housing facility should also be improved. Lastly, the short duration of disaster relief education and training, the neglect of cultivating disaster relief professionals and R&D, and the limitation of disaster relief management regarding to volunteering activities are pointed out. In this study, the development plan for relief activities were discussed by investigating and analyzing the problems involved in raws and legal system, relief resources and supplies, relief systems currently being operated.

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