How companion partners work
- Team: around five people — block leaders, neighbors in the same building or within a 5-minute walk, and district care officers
- Trigger: Seoul’s flood advisory criteria (20 mm in 15 minutes or 55 mm per hour)
- Action: care officers activate contact lists; partners go to their matched household to help evacuate
- Scale: plan to match 1,196 households with 2,956 partners in 2024
What residents can prepare
- Apply for flood barriers and backflow preventers (community center or district flood office)
- Share evacuation places and contacts with family and neighbors
- Prepare to leave as soon as a flood advisory text arrives
What is hard on the ground
- Several rounds of calls slow down dispatch
- Hard to see who has left and who has been evacuated
Sources
- 서울시, 침수취약 반지하 가구 신속한 대피돕는 동행파트너 활동 시작 — 뉴스서울
- 폭우참사 막는 서울시… 침수 예·경보제 전국 첫 실시 — 서울신문, 2023
- 안전분야 누리집 — 침수방지시설 — 서울특별시
