Back to home page
1994 - VOLUME 23, NUMBER 1
95.33.1 - English - Sung Ho KO Urban growth in Korea, 1970-1980: An application of the human ecological perspective
This study aims to examine the conditions under which the growth of Korean cities has occurred. Based on the ecological theories of population redistribution, in particular Duncan's theory of "ecological complex", the author identifies those variables which are likely to have an influence on urban growth in Korea. He carries out some multiple regression analyses on the data provided by the 1970 and 1980 censuses. This analysis shows that the ecological theories are highly efficacious in explaining Korean urban growth, as ecological variables explain about two-thirds of the rate of urban growth and anywhere between 37 and 76% of the net migration, depending on the age group studied. The main determining factors are the surplus of indigenous manpower, demographic potential and nutritional differenciation, although the latter factor, like public spending, only has an effect on the net migration rates of specific age groups. The author confirms the observation already noted from previous studies that the effect of population volume has noticeably decreased during the 1970s and he would like to see the number of studies of this kind increasing greatly in developing countries so that more solidly-based generalisations can be made in relation to the growth of cities in the Third World. (KOREA, DEVELOPING COUNTRIES, URBAN POPULATION, HUMAN ECOLOGY)
95.33.2- English - Jung Sun KIM
The informal structure and job satisfaction in a hospital organization: A case study
95.33.3 - English - Jung-Hai YOON
Relative deprivation in consumption of urban poor households in Korea: With special reference to objective deprivation
The environmental problems in urban communities and the protection of the environment in Korea
95.33.5 - English - Jung-Whan LEE
Industrialization and the formation of the new middle class in Korea
Political culture in the "Advocacy of an Expedition to Korea" in the 1870s: An aspect of Japanese imperialism
95.33.7 - English - Young Jin PARK
The rise of one-person households and their recent characteristics in Korea
The author studies the increase in the proportion of one person households which, since 1960, has mainly been due to the rural exodus of young people. This has resulted in rural households being split up which, in turn, has contributed to reducing household size and to increasing the number of one-person households consisting, on the one hand, of young, single, urban people and, on the other, of rural elderly widowed people. The propensity to live alone has very evidently increased, but it cannot be stated with certainty that this has spread recently to Korean society as a whole. For example, in 1990, the majority of young urban people living alone came from a rural background, but there is nothing to prove that young people brought up in cities had a greater propensity to live alone. While the proportion of one-person households reached a level of 10% in 1990, a study of their characteristics shows no signs of any significant development in traditional family norms. (KOREA, SINGLE PERSONS, RURAL-URBAN MIGRATION)
Back to home page