Monitoring Agricultural Drought in South Korea - Monitoring and Predicting Agricultural Drought: A Global Study - page 388

Table 30.1 The main drought years during 1960s-90s

Budget for

Rate of reservoir

Amount drought

Rainy days storage

Rainfall (mm) No. of dried Drought of damage mitigation

Year (May-July) No. Frequency % Frequency reservoirs area (ha) (million $) (million $)

1967 307.4 56 7 5 25 — 402,547 522 5

1968 122.2 72 50 4 30 — 470,422 584 5

1981 658.2 50 5 46 2 5,306 145,547 181 43

1982 300.8 54 7 27 7 13,593 231,244 287 40

1994 231.3 68 30 15 15 6,728 113,300 — 57

Source: Kim (1995).