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Traditional discourse on risk has been dominated by either abstract approach such as the theory of risk society, or policy-driven prescriptions on specific issues. This paper, on the contrary, focuses on the meso-level approach, especially the organization-level change of the major disasters in Kore...

Traditional discourse on risk has been dominated by either abstract approach such as the theory of risk society, or policy-driven prescriptions on specific issues. This paper, on the contrary, focuses on the meso-level approach, especially the organization-level change of the major disasters in Korea. To reveal the genuine but changing nature of the complex risks in Korean society, we have employed a method of event structures analysis to compare major disasters, including Daegu subway incendiarism(2003), the collapse of Sungsoo bridge(1994) and Sampoong department store(1995). As reference of comparison, two cases of modern disasters, such as Three Miles Island nuclear plant accident(1979) and the explosion of Challenger(1986) were introduced. By combining two dimensions of the structure of accidents, such as time and complexity of interaction, we figured out four different types of accidents: simple-and-amplifying, simple-and-exploding, complex-and-amplifying, complexand-exploding. Comparison over the event structures of these disasters shows that Daegu subway incendiarism is very close to the complex-and-exploding type of disasters, implying that it is quite different in its nature from the traditional disasters in Korea which were more or less incubated and amplified by the corruption and mal-coordination among actors. The result supports the argument that Korea is now entering into a dual risk society, characterized by the combination of traditional risks and post-modern risks.

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