"You need to understand the bereaved family through transparent fact-finding to overcome trauma."

[Anchor]
The Jeju Air plane disaster shocked the entire nation, as well as the bereaved families and survivors.

Mental health experts emphasized that the fact-finding process should be transparently disclosed to understand the bereaved families, and that it will also be a medicine for recovering from national trauma.

This is reporter Lee Moon-seok.

[Reporter]
The Jeju Air plane disaster caused tremendous mental trauma to the bereaved families.

Unbearable pain leads to post-traumatic stress disorder, or trauma.

Citizens who encountered the accident through the media or SNS were also psychologically shocked.

We experienced this national trauma in the not-too-distant past.

The 2014 Ferry Sewol disaster and the 2022 Itaewon disaster.

Unfortunately, both incidents have something in common with the cause of the accident and the delay in finding out the truth.

This was a factor that slowed the recovery of trauma not only for bereaved families but also for society as a whole.

A disaster mental health expert pointed out that it should be different this time.

He said the first step in trauma recovery is to transparently disclose the process of identifying the cause of the accident so that the bereaved families can accept it.

[Shim Min-young / Director of the National Trauma Center: It's hard to accept because you lost your family overnight, but if there's something opaque about an accident, it becomes very difficult to accept it.]

At the same time, he mentioned how to proactively engage the bereaved families from the beginning of the fact-finding investigation.

In addition, he emphasized that this can heal the trauma of the people when they watch the disaster parties, such as bereaved families and survivors, overcome the shock.

I'm YTN's Lee Munseok.