The Hydro-meteorological Service is successfully pushing forward the projects for scientifically clarifying the weather and climate conditions and providing speedy and accurate information necessary for the weather forecast and information about weather and climate required by different fields of the national economy.

The meteorological office has updated different meteorological observation equipment at a high level by cutting down the time for observing various meteorological elements one tenths as compared with that before by using newly developed automatic meteorological observation equipment.

It is, at the same time, stepping up the project for building various kinds of observation networks suited to the natural and geographical features of Korea.

It is raising the accuracy of weather forecast by using accurate information on weather forecast and forecasting the weather on the basis of comparative analysis of information on weather of different countries of the world.

The information office newly developed software for speedy weather forecast.

Its staff rounded off more than 1 800 recommendations.

The Hydrological Institute has achieved successes in minimizing drought damage.