• Journal of the Korean association of regional geographers
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• v.1 no.1
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• pp.1-21
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• 1995

We Korean geographers have been interesting merely in research trends and models which induced in more advanced societies. We unconcerned with the models were painfully acquired through many field surveys and accumulated researches. Approaches to the generalization without accumulating experienced studies are just like 'building on the sand' and 'it is nothing but the paper'. We still need many field surveys, regional approaches and very basic researches for induced the Korean geographic models. In geography. 'where' is not main goal. 'Why and how' are the most important. We know these very much. But we do not recognize that 'what is where' in Korea, still now. We must have our own Korean spatial models. But geography is not build in a day and in one generation. It needs interdisciplinary or system approaches accompany with the other fields of sciences. We concern with the spatial principles and laws which were hidden by the complicated phenomena in real world.