Soil and ground water contamination near abandoned mine sites, US military bases, and industrial complexes is considered one of the most serious social problems since the late 1990s. Since 4,799 animal burial sites exist across the country due to the outbreak of Foot-and-Mouth Disease (FMD) and Avian Influenza (AI) between 2010 and 2011, the problem of soil and ground water contamination has been recognized as one of the most urgent tasks to be undertaken.
    This report is mainly focused on projects regarding follow-up measures for the management of animal burial sites and environmental management of abandoned mines sites, and it found several solutions for improvement by analyzing the current problems in soil and ground water protection projects.
    Evaluation results showed that government does not deal with soil and ground water contamination such as leachate leakage from the burial sites effectively. Follow-up managers who are responsible for continuous monitoring of burial sites do not have sufficient professionalism and adequate understandings of soil and ground water contamination. In particular, constructing public water supplies for local residences near burial sites without consideration of regional circumstances is likely to result in budget waste.
    Also, insufficient collaboration between related government ministries and inefficient duplicate investigations of soil and ground water contamination on abandoned mine sites have negative impacts on environmental management projects. Additionally, the report demonstrated that there is an insufficient accumulation of fundamental information to perform soil and ground water contamination investigations and the financial shortfalls for purification and restoration of soil and water contamination. In addition, this report pointed out several problems regarding inefficiencies such as duplicate undertakings of tasks due to division between ground water quantity and quality management.
    Therefore, government needs to improve budget allocation efficiency as well as understandings of the soil and ground water contamination. Also, government needs to investigate and identify causes and sources of contamination, create a database system that is efficient and effective in generating data on the soil and ground water contamination, and improve collaboration between related government ministries and active private sector participations. In addition, government should endeavor to establish an institutional framework: for example, integrated management of ground water quantity and quality, and expansion plans of financial resources for purification of soil and ground water, etc.