The Republic of Korea (hereinafter referred to as South Korea) is located in the Eurasia Plate, unlike Japan where is on the plate boundary. Consequently, most people of South Korea had not concerned about earthquake disaster until the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake. Earthquake observation in South Korea has started since 1978, and the number of earthquakes has been increasing since then. For example, 2016 Kyeongju earthquake (M＝5.8) is the largest earthquake since the beginning of earthquake observation. Several tens of people were injured and many houses were damaged. Under such background in South Korea, “EARTHQUAKE RECOVERY PLANS ACT” was legislated at last in 2008 to “prescribe matters necessary for the observation of, prevention of, provision against and action against earthquakes and tsunami, earthquake-proof measures, and research and technical development or such, to reduce earthquake disasters in order to protect the life and property of the people and major infrastructure from disasters due to earthquakes and tsunami.” This paper aims to introduce “the Act” by translating Korean into Japanese directly and sum up the contents to understand them easily.
