A comparative study about the traffic accident statistics and the risk perceptions among South Korea, Japan and the United States

Abstract

South Korea, Japan and the United States are closely connected with politics and economics. Basically, those countries are similar economic structure in the manufacturing industry, but each country has a unique culture. Especially, Japan and the United States have similar industry structure and economical ability. And there are many studies different culture. In this study, we examine the actual risk factors that face with citizens in each country in the field of traffic safety. It is the research method that we compared with traffic-accidents risk and with traffic accident statistics from several points of view such as drivers, passengers, motorcyclists, bicyclists, and pedestrians. As the result, traffic culture does not mature enough to consider the other people in Korea. Namely, there is some relationship between traffic accident and culture. It needs matured traffic culture to decrease traffic accident.