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- - Rescue, command, and support role in various large-scale disasters
- - Research on and provision of rescue techniques / education and training of rescue team members
- - Rescue and support in disasters through chief-commander decisions as requested by mayors or governors
- - Another disaster rescue and support method needed for deployment based on the central emergent rescue control chief's judgment
- ※ 21st revision of status as an affiliated organization under NEMA (revised on September 1, 2005; Presidential Decree No. 19032)
- October 19, 1995 Announcement of establishment of National 119 Rescue Service (Presidential Decree No. 14791)
- December 27, 1995 Establishment of NRS (Banghakdong, Dobongu, Seoul)
- August 22, 1997 Start of 119 SAR Team in the Ministry of Home Affairs (Presidential Decree No. 15382)
- July 28, 1999 Transfer of the NRS office to its current site
- November 1, 2000 Voted Chair Nation of UN INSARAG, and hosted the INSARAG Asia-Pacific Regional Meeting in Seoul
- March 02, 2001 Establishment of Highway Rescue Team as an affiliate unit in Incheon Airport
- May 27, 2004 Taken in as an affiliate organization under the newly launched NEMA (Presidential Decree No. 18390)
- September 01, 2004 Revision of status as an affiliate organization under NEMA (Presidential Decree No. 19032)
