Schools nationwide will conduct a drill from Monday to Friday of next week in order to boost their capabilities to respond to natural disasters.
 
The Education Ministry announced that some 20-thousand schools, including kindergartens and universities, across the nation will take part in the government-organized drill called “2016 Counter-Disaster Safe Korea Exercise.”
 
On Monday, the first day of the drill, exercises will focus on the training operations of a disaster management headquarters in the Education Ministry based on the scenario that a fire broke out and buildings collapsed due to a gas explosion in the cafeteria of Gongju Sinwol Elementary School in South Chungcheong Province.
 
On the third day, Wednesday, at two p.m., all students, teachers and staff of Gongju Sinwol Elementary School will take part in an actual counter-disaster exercise.
 
The schools taking part in the drill will also carry out different exercises aimed at countering fires and the handling of evacuations and other procedures from the effects of earthquakes – exercises that came to pass in the wake of the series of massive quakes that recently rattled Japan and Ecuador.