A method for managing link failure, according to one embodiment of the present invention, comprises the steps of: receiving a link failure report (LFR) for notifying that a link between user equipment and an base station of a second RAT has been disassociated; requesting an entity of a first RAT, which manages interworking between the first RAT and the second RAT, to switch a flow of downlink data for the user equipment, which is to be transmitted to the base station of the second RAT, to a base station of the first RAT; establishing a direct tunnel between the base station of the first RAT and the base station of the second RAT by using an identifier of the base station of the second RAT, which is included in the LFR of the user equipment; and relaying the downlink data for the user equipment, which has been buffered in the base station of the second RAT up to before the switch of the flow after the disassociation of the link, from the base station of the second RAT to the user equipment.