ArticleInternational journal of environmental research and public health2018
The Asbestos Ban in Korea from a Grassroots Perspective: Why Did It Occur?
Article in International journal of environmental research and public health, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.
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- [Regulation and ban of asbestos in Latin America and the Caribbean: a comparative policy analysis].Revista de salud publica (Bogota, Colombia) · 2025Article
- Assessing trends and burden of occupational exposure to asbestos in the United States: a comprehensive analysis from 1990 to 2019.BMC public health · 2024Article
- Global, regional, and national trends in mesothelioma burden from 1990 to 2019 and the predictions for the next two decades.SSM - population health · 2023Article
- Asbestos awareness among the residents of St. Kitts and Nevis: a cross-sectional study.Globalization and health · 2022Article
- Impact of Naturally Occurring Asbestos on Asbestos Ban: Regulations and Experience of the Republic of Korea.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Review
- Activity-Based Exposure Levels and Cancer Risk Assessment Due to Naturally Occurring Asbestos for the Residents Near Abandoned Asbestos Mines in South Korea.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Article
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Abstract
In 2009, asbestos was finally banned in Korea, about 70 years after the first opening of asbestos mines under Japanese control. After having presented the history of asbestos industry, together with its regulations and health effects over time, we constructed narrative analyses of how the asbestos issue under the prevailing risk system was managed by whom and for what purpose, to provide context for the change. We could identify five different phases: laissez-faire, politico-technical, economic-managerial, health-oriented cultural, and human rights-based post-cultural risk systems. The changes leading to the asbestos ban evolved over different phases, and each phase change was necessary to reach the final ban, in that, without resolving the previous issues by examining different categories of potential alternatives, either the final ban was not possible or, even if instituted, could not be sustained. An asbestos ban could be introduced when all the alternatives to these issues, including legitimate political windows, economic rationalizations, health risk protections, and human rights sensitivities, were available. We think the alternatives that we had were not in perfect shape, but in more or less loosely connected forms, and hence we had to know how to build solidarities between different stakeholders to compensate for the imperfections.
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