Korea faces The 2014 Incheon Asian Games and 2018 Pyungchang Winter
Olympics. It is imperative to hold a safe event for the economic benefits,
enhancing Korea's image, social integration, national harmony and unity in
order to be evaluated as a successful international event.
Furthermore, since the international event tends to draw many spectators,
the host country must be ready to accommodate a large number of injured
people in the event of an accident or terror attack.
As stadiums for international events are where a large number of spectators
gather in, a large refuge is essential, when dangerous situations happen. In
this study, evacuation simulation was conducted using three scenarios in order
to predict escape behaviors of spectators during the large escape by destruction
of safety systems of stadiums and assess escape safety.
As the result, the following results and proposals were extracted.
Firstly, it is considered that dangerous situations during the security of
stadiums should be predicted in advance and concrete plans for a large refuge
of spectators have to be established to minimize damage.
Secondly, it was found that the reduction in evacuation exits has an
important impact on evacuation in an emergency situation. It implies that
securing escape exits are quite important.