🇰🇷 South Korea

What your government recommends

Be ready for 2–3 days (survival backpack)^[1]

“평상시에 2~3일 분의 식수, 식량, 생필품, 상비약, 라디오, 손전등, 화생방 대비용품 등을 가방, 캐리어 등에 담아 준비해 둡니다. (Korean; English: 'In normal times, pack 2–3 days' worth of drinking water, food, daily necessities, basic medicines, a radio, a torch and CBRN protection items in a bag or suitcase.')”

Food: Survival backpack: prepare simple food that can be eaten without cooking and regularly check expiry dates and replace it. One backpack per person, so everyone can carry their own. After a nuclear explosion, people in shelters are told to check available resources and prepare what is needed (drinking water, food, etc.) to shelter for 2 weeks or more.^[1]

Recommended items

• ✓Bottled water and simple ready-to-eat food (2–3 days)^[1][2]
• ✓Torch^[1][2]
• ✓Radio with plenty of spare batteries (to hear government broadcasts)^[1][2]
• ✓Basic household medicines^[1][2]
• ✓Toilet paper / wet wipes^[2]
• ✓Raincoat and blanket^[2]
• ✓Gas mask, face mask, rubber gloves, rubber boots and plastic bags (CBRN protection)^[1][2]
• ✓Important documents: bank books, insurance certificates, contracts, ID^[1]
• ✓Family emergency contact card and an agreed family meeting place^[1]
• ✓At least one set of warm clothes and shoes per person^[3]

Special items

• Gas mask (방독면), or towel / face mask; rain clothes or plastic clothing; rubber boots and gloves; plenty of adhesive tape to seal windows and doors — For chemical, biological or nuclear attack: protect your breathing and minimise exposed skin while leaving the contaminated area. Listed as CBRN preparation items on the government portal.^[1][3]

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Good to know

• • South Korea's guidance is written for wartime emergencies (civil air-defence warnings, shelters, chemical, biological and nuclear attack).
• • After a nuclear explosion, the guide says radiation falls to about 1/1,000 after two weeks, so shelters should prepare water and food for 2 weeks or more.
• • In shelters: follow the manager's instructions, do not cook with fire, avoid unnecessary phone calls, listen to government broadcasts and ignore rumours on social media. Do not hoard supplies.
• • No official litres-per-day water figure was found.