The Korea Local Administration Review

About 65% of the whole Korea's land are surrounded by mountains. the majority of whole forests is in general pine forests which is likely to be burnt with ease. Recently, the fire is frequent and getting larger. Thus, it is very important to extinguish forest fire at an early stage with the effective risk management for forest fire. This study examines possibility of effective interorganizational collaboration for coping with forest fire disaster through the case study of Yangyang forest fire. This paper illustrates the problems of Yangyang forest fire such as lack of interorganizational collaboration and absence of incident command system. Also, the study suggests the necessity of constructing interorganizational network, and incident command system, enhancing interorganizational learning and fire fighting at an early stage in a community.