[▲ Sang-seon Kim (President, KISTEP)]


 

President Sang-seon Kim addressed that “Fine dust pollution was stated as social disaster and is a serious social problem. But it can be solved as seen from domestic and foreign cases. Exact definition of the problem and feasible policies can be arranged if S&T policy is aligned, and this forum was planed to provide a detailed direction.” Moreover, he also emphasized that he hopes the forum to play a major role in solving fine dust pollution.

Director Seung-Kyu Yi presented ‘The case of air quality improvement in Los Angeles’ and introduced ‘Problem mapping on fine dust in Korea.’
 
*Ministry of Science and ICT established ‘The 2nd Comprehensive Plan to solve the (Social) Problems in People’s Lives through Science and Technology ('18~’22)’ in June, 2018 and designated the Center for Social Innovation Policy at KISTEP as the Center for Social Affairs, S&T Policy in November for its systematic implementation and specific strategies.


 

[▲ Seung-Kyu Yi (Director, Center for Social Innovation Policy, KISTEP)]

 
 

Director Seung-Ky Yi analyzed the problem-solving system that is combined work of S&T and social policy for the last 70 years since the LA Smog in 1943, then suggested policy implications of 5 major successes and cases from the renovation of air quality system in LA.

By presenting ‘Problem mapping on fine dust’; he also synthetically analyzed fine dust pollution by total periodic and problem-solving aspects and proposed 19 specific problems based on social demand and opinions of related field experts. Furthermore, he elaborated 5 major progress directions based on fine dust problem mapping. ‘Problem mapping’ is a way to define a problem to analyze social problems synthetically by total periodic and problem-solving aspects and is the unique analyzing tool of Center for Social Affairs, S&T Policy, MSIT. The important part of the mapping is to divide the entire cycle of the problems into 4 stages (cause, progress, status, and influence) and differentiate the resolution of system innovation to solve it to 6 categories (provision of information, product service development, process, group formation, law regulation, and action)


 

[▲ Seung-Kyu Yi (Director, Center for Social Innovation Policy, KISTEP)]


 

In the following presentation, Director Yi explained ‘5 major promoting directions based on fine dust problem mapping.’ By setting the resolution direction as connecting S&T and social policy based on the opinions from experts, 2 strategies; ▲strengthening S&T evidence to establish policies and evaluations for fine dust, ▲improving the fine dust policy for the public and selecting 8 topics on ‘the integration of S&T and social policy’; can lead the discussion to seek more refined plans of S&T and social policy.


 

[▲ KISTEP Social Problems Connecting Discussion]


 

The panel discussion with experts in S&T (7 people) and social policy (6 people) followed to define fine dust pollution and to share feasible solutions. The experts agreed that the connection of S&T and social policy is necessary and conducted in-depth discussions on innovating systems to solve various problems.

 

 

 

[▲ KISTEP Social Problems Connecting Discussion]





[▲ Photo from KISTEP Social Problems Connecting Discussion]