关键词: 韩国, 大坝安全管理, 风险

Abstract: Once a dam has been built, the first responsibility of dam owners and engineers is to properly maintain it by performing inspection and safety assessment as required in the corresponding rules, regulations or acts. Until recently the dam safety assessments in Korea have been based on prescriptive and qualitative approaches which cannot take into account uncertainties in the nature. Currently, risk-based dam safety management is considered as a truly reliable alternative for next generation paradigm of dam safety management. This paper describes how the traditional and institutional systems in dam safety management are undertaken so far and how the risk-based dam safety management is imported as the new dam safety paradigm. Some guidelines and regulations about dam safety will be introduced to trace back the change history of dam safety management in Korea. Finally, an example of efforts to adopt the dam risk assessment for a dam as the new dam safety paradigm will be described briefly.

Key words: Korea, dam safety management, risk