Emergency Call

When external help is needed due to a fire, disaster, or an injury, 119 emergency call will dispatch an expert rescue team to provide the necessary help.

What can be covered by 119 calls?

• Fire prevention - safety check, fire prevention patrol
• Rescue activity - rescue and fire prevention
• 119 Rescue - handling of disasters, rescue
• Rescue activity - emergency treatment, patient transfer
• Service activities
  • - free repair of fire-fighting facilities
  • - fire-fighting support to suppress mountain fire
  • - safety education for children
  • - water supply to highlanders
  • - preventive check of residential fire
  • - disaster (flood or drought) support
  • - fire-fighting-related consultation and training

Help Sites

• National Health Insurance Corporation (http://www.nhic.or.kr/english/main.html)
• Population Health and Welfare Association (http://www.ppfk.or.kr/en/index.asp)
• Ministry of Health and Human Services (http://www.mohw.go.kr/eng/index.jsp)
• Hope - the Department of Health and Human Services Call Center phone 129 (http://www.129.go.kr)
• Vaccination Assistant (https://nip.kdca.go.kr/irhp/index.jsp)
• National Cancer Center (http://ncc.re.kr)
• Tuberculosis Association (http://www.knta.or.kr/)
• Red Cross (http://www.redcross.or.kr/eng/eng_main/main.do)
• Korea Foundation for International Health Care (http://www.kofih.org/en/)
• Ministry of Food and Drug Safety (http://www.mfds.go.kr/eng)
• Hospitals caring in holiday