The Main Purposes of this study are as follows: 1) to identify the current conditions and problems of the assistance scheme to private property damage caused by natural disasters; 2) to suggest its improvement ways.
The major research methods of this study were the collection of existing related data, mail survey, interview, field observation, and others.
Descriptive statistics such as frequencies, percentage, mean were used to organize and summarize the data.
The major problems of the current assistance scheme to private property damage caused by natural disasters are: 1) The current scheme have already gone beyond the relief level; 2) The equity problem between farmers and fishermen, among crops, and among the strata of management size was generated; 3) The assistance items and unit costs are unrealistic; 4) The possibility of moral hazard outbreak is high; 5) The assistance in advance has a lot of difficulties in implementing it; 6) The standard to classify the size among items are ambiguous.
The basic direction to improve the current assistance scheme to private property damage caused by natural disasters are: 1) to clear up the characteristics of assistance; 2) to improve the equity level between farmers and fishermen, among crops, and among the strata of management size; 3) to objectify and make efficient the assistance standard; and 4) to prepare the introduction of natural disaster insurance.
The major ways to improve the current assistance scheme to private property damage caused by natural disasters are: 1) to make up for the weak points in the current assistance scheme; 2) to assist according to the damage rank system; 3) to assist the fixed proportion of total damage cost; 4) to simplify the assistance scheme by grouping same kind; 5) to develop disaster relief system and natural disaster insurance at the same time.
Researchers: Choi Kyeong-Hwan, Joung Myoung-Chae, Park Dae-Shik
E-mail Address: kyeong@krei.re.kr