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ToRainorNottoRain,
ThatIstheQuestion
ByChoiYea-jin
StaffReporterofTheory&CritiqueSection
aveyoueverheardabout“weatherwanderer?”
It means people who trust Korean weather
information provided by foreign countries
instead of the Korea Meteorological Administration
(KMA). Due to the recent errors of the KMA, the
numberofKoreanweatherwanderers,whodonottrust
theKMA,areincreasing.
TheKMApredictedaheatwaveforthissummer,not
a rainy season; but on the contrary, there was an all-
timelongrainyseason.ManypeopleblamedtheKMA
for the massive damage, including urban inundations
and loss of lives. In addition, several media sources
reported that the KMA made a mistake in predicting
the path of typhoon Bavi, but the U.S. and Europe
correctly predicted the path. While Korean distrust
of the KMA is increasing, rather than unconditional
criticismandneglect,weneedtoknowexactlywhythe
KMAhasmadesomanyerrorsinweatherforecasting.
Despitetheconstanterrors,Korea’sweatherforecasting
system, which is still in a period of transition, is
essentialinourlivesandaproblemwemustsolve.The
Arguslookedattheproblems,causesandsolutionsfor
the Korean weather forecasting system based on the
threeelementsofweatherforecasting.
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