During the landslide caution period in summer, Minister of the Korea Forest Service Dr. SHIN Won Sop held a landslide control officers meeting with the aim of making comprehensive effective landslide control activities. Further to his visit to landslide-affected and prone sites, Minister Shin checked up on the situation room for monitoring landslides and forest disasters during the rainy season and encouraged officers and staff on emergency duty against typhoon and torrential rains.