The Ministry of the Interior and Safety said on the 10th that it formed a "task force (TF) for improving the system for temporary housing assembly homes."
The team was formed in response to safety problems after concentrated heavy rain from July 18 to 19 flooded temporary assembly homes for wildfire victims in North Gyeongsang, with some units separating from their foundations.
The task force will be broadly composed of private-sector experts and local government officials, led by the Director General of the Ministry of the Interior and Safety (MOIS) disaster recovery support bureau. It aims to improve the overall system, not only to fundamentally prevent a recurrence of safety issues, but also to resolve cases of residents staying longer than two years, and to revise definitions and names to match the purpose of support.
In addition, the task force plans to prepare measures by gathering and discussing opinions from experts in each field across the entire cycle from initial support through management to move-out, including applying the standard design documents for the temporary assembly homes at issue, strengthening site safety, and establishing management measures to prepare for disasters.
The improvement tasks drawn from these discussions will be reflected in revisions to the "operational guidelines for temporary housing assembly homes (Ministry of the Interior and Safety notice)." Given the urgency, it will first identify and prioritize tasks directly tied to safety and pursue a first-round revision by the end of this year, and then prepare a comprehensive amendment for the remaining items by year-end and proceed with a second-round revision early next year.
Through this, the Ministry of the Interior and Safety (MOIS) plans to lay the overall foundation of the temporary assembly home system, spanning from establishing a prevention-centered institutional base to efficient post-management.
Kim Jung-yeol, Director General of the Ministry of the Interior and Safety (MOIS) disaster recovery support bureau, said, "We will work with experts to put in place airtight institutional safeguards so that disaster victims who lost their homes to unforeseen disasters do not suffer a second blow from another disaster," adding, "We will fundamentally improve the full-cycle safety management system from initial support to move-out."