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It is true that Korea has never officially classified which public institution should deal with which emergency, via a national framework. This article aims at encouraging Korea to adopt newly proposed "the National Response Framework (NRF)" for the ultimate purpose of contributing to the goal of emergency management such as reducing human loss, economic damages, and psychological impacts. To do so, the article has carefully and systematically examined the related implications as well as the existing problems after sequently comparing three major subjects to include the U.S. NRF, Japan's Disaster Management Plan, and Korea's Basic Plan on National Safety Management. The article has proposed how to improve Korea's Basic Plan on National Safety Management as a key finding, while elaborating on the general improvement direction, governments and their policy, NGOs and their strategy, the establishment of coordination network, and the revision of related laws. In short, this paper has emphasized that Korea should make efforts to radically transform its Basic Plan on National Safety Management into advanced NRF.