[Good, bad, weird] There's no safe zone on the Korean Peninsula.

The Annals of the Joseon Dynasty recorded that three strong earthquakes occurred in Hanyang in the 13th year of King Jungjong (1518), causing the walls of houses and castles to collapse and the sound was as loud as an angry thunderstorm.

The nation's largest earthquake with a magnitude of 5.8 struck Gyeongju in 2016, and the second-strongest earthquake ever, the 2017 Pohang earthquake, was 5.4, causing 84.6 billion won in property damage.

The Pohang Earthquake Special Act passed the National Assembly plenary session two years after the earthquake, but residents who lost their homes lived in shelters for years.

The government research team and the fact-finding committee announced that the Pohang earthquake was caused by the negligence of geothermal power project operators, managers, and supervisors,
Seven years after the
earthquake, prosecutors put five people, including the head and director of a geothermal power consortium and researchers at a government-funded research institute, on charges of professional negligence.

The Pohang Earthquake Pan-Citizens' Countermeasures Headquarters started a lawsuit against the government in 2018 and drew a ruling from the Daegu District Court in November 2023 to compensate 2 million won to 3 million won per person.

The Pohang earthquake reminds us that the Korean Peninsula is no longer a safe zone for earthquakes.

Since 1978, when the Korea Meteorological Administration started observing earthquakes, there have been 451 earthquakes (magnitude 3.0 or greater) in Korea.


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