• Journal of the Korean association of regional geographers
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• v.22 no.1
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• pp.120-134
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• 2016

This study aims to investigate the hierarchical stepwise migration and its influences on regions (metropolitan areas, cities and counties of Korea administrative district) through analyzing the city rank-size and the changes of natural increase of population. The result shows that the inter-regional migration has been associated to the decrease of the population and the decline of NIR in the regions where outflows have been persisted. Also, theses demographic events have sequentially occurred through the hierarchy of settlement system: gradually from rural (gun) and lower ranked regions in the system of city rank-size, to urban (si) and regions in the high ranks in the system. Based on the result of this study, it is possible to understand and expect the major origins of inter-regional migration, the presence of the hierarchical stepwise migration and most significantly, the spatial expansion of depopulation problems.

• Journal of the Economic Geographical Society of Korea
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• v.11 no.4
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• pp.549-563
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• 2008

The purpose of this research is to identify the urban structure in Korea. Though there is research regarding urbanization, there is little regarding the urban structure of the Korean economy. In this paper, two issues will be discussed: the measurements of inter-city and intra-city structure in Korean Metropolitan Statistical Areas (MSAs), which is newly defined. First, the city size rank rule, widely known as Zipf’s Law, will illustrate Korean the inter-city structure. The city size rank rule gives an idea whether Korean MSAs are balanced or not. In general, Korea has a heavy concentration in the Seoul MSA in terms of population. It could be either that the Seoul MSA is too big or that the Busan MSA is too small or both. If this is the primacy problem, a decentralization policy is necessary. On the other hand, if it is a second city problem, development policies for the Busan MSA and Daegu MSA are more important. Next, the Korean intra-city structure will be discussed. The evolutions of the MSAs explain intra-city structure by analyzing population density function and the housing price function. Some large MSAs such as Seoul and Busan have experienced urban sprawl, while other MSAs have experienced urban concentration. The population density gradient by the distance from the ARC GIS shows the growth rate of a city. According to the Spatial Mismatch Index between population and employment, the Ulsan MSA, Gwangju MSA, and Suwon-Hwaseong-Osan MSA are more mismatched, while the Daejeon MSA and Incheon MSA are less mismatched. Therefore, these analyses of Korean urban structure are meaningful in developing regional policy.

• Journal of the Economic Geographical Society of Korea
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• v.17 no.3
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• pp.447-464
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• 2014

Creative industries are important due to the capability of enhancing urban competitiveness. This study is focused on unravelling the uneven growth and geographic distributions of creative industries. The main results are as follows. First, the primary city, Seoul, has too much eminence than the citysize rule suggests, and the creative-industry elasticity is very high compared to population and all industry. Second, Seoul is reinforcing the uneven growth with adjacent cities. Third, the local main cities have little power to enhance creative industries and the local small cities grow randomly. Fourth, each city should have more deliberation in accepting creative industries as an urban growth strategy.

• Proceedings of the Korea Water Resources Association Conference
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• 2016.05a
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• pp.240-240
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• 2016

인류문명의 발달과 함께 경제력도 크게 개선되었으나 인구가 집중되어 있는 도시지역에서의 침수가 반복되고 있다. 도시침수는 직간접적인 피해규모가 심각하므로 구조적인 대책과 비구조적인 대책을 통하여 홍수방재에 많은 투자가 이루어져 왔다. 또한 계획규모 또한 상향조정되어 있다. 그러나 실제로 향상된 계획규모에 적합하도록 전체 홍수방재시설을 개수하는 데는 많은 기간과 예산으로 인하여 진행이 이루어지고 있지 못하고 있으며 과거의 호우사상에서 살펴볼 수 있는 바와 같이 계획규모를 크게 초과되는 홍수는 자주 발생되어 왔으며 이로 인한 도시침수도 계속되어 왔다. 이러한 현상은 기후변화 및 돌발홍수 등으로 인하여 앞으로도 반복될 가능성이 매우 높아질 것으로 예측된다. 따라서 현재의 홍수방재시설에 대하여 향상된 계획규모의 호우사상 또는 이를 초과하는 극대호우사상에서의 홍수방재를 위한 방안수립이 시급한 상황이라고 판단된다. 본 연구에서는 계획규모를 초과하는 극대호우사상에 대비하여 최소한의 예산으로도 획기적으로 도시침수를 억제할 수 있는 방안을 제시하고자 하였다. 도시지역에서의 홍수방재는 침수억제가 가장 중요하므로 침수모의를 통하여 통수능이 부족한 경우라도 침수가 발생되지 않는 지역은 제외하고 침수에 취약한 지점만을 대상으로 침수원인을 파악하여 역경사 또는 경사부족구간의 개선, 소규모 분산형 저류지를 통한 침수억제 및 빗물저류조와 빗물펌프장에서의 운영강화 등을 통하여 경제적인 침수억제방안의 수립을 전제하여 침수모의를 수행하였다. 연구결과 최소한의 구조적 개선과 기존 방재시설의 운영강화로 기왕의 홍수사상에서 발생된 침수에 대비하여 침수발생을 크게 저감시킬수 있는 것으로 분석되었다. 따라서 전반적인 개수보다는 중요침수지역들을 대상으로 우선순위를 결정하여 침수원인을 해소 하는 방안으로 홍수방재계획을 추진한다면 빠른 기간에 작은 예산으로 도시침수를 크게 저감 시킬 수 있을 것으로 기대된다.

• Journal of the Korean association of regional geographers
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• v.13 no.3
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• pp.290-300
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• 2007

In this study, web document frequency of city place name is analyzed and it is used as the dataset for rank-size analysis. The search keywords are compared in the context of spatial meaning and the different domain corpus is applied. The acquired search results are applied for the further analysis. Firstly, the rank-size analysis is applied to compare the result between population and document frequency. Secondly, in case of correlation analysis, the significant changes are revealed when the spatial criteria for search keywords are increased. In case of corpus, COM, NET, and ORG shows the higher coefficient values. Lastly, the cluster analysis is applied to classify the list of cities that shows the similarity and difference. These analyses have a significant role in representing the rank-size distribution of city names that are reflected on the web documents in the information society.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.12 no.8
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• pp.388-398
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• 2012

In this study, Entropy method and PROMETHEE(Preference Ranking organization METHod for Enrichment Evaluations) which is one of the multi criteria decision making methods are applied to estimate the relative inundation risk ranking of the urban sewer systems. Then, the evaluation factors were selected considering two main items to estimate the inundation risk using Entropy and PROMETHEE. In the first item considering topographical and environmental factor, average elevation, average slope, width of area, population, density of conduit were selected as the detailed factors of first item which have influence of the overflow occurrence and damage scale in urban sewer system. And, the relative reliability of sewer network was considered as the second item which can quantify the inundation appearance. Then, the reliability is estimated considering the number of overflow nodes and overflow volume simultaneously. Therefore, the suggested inundation risk evaluation method can be used as the evaluation index for sewer networks and contribute to decision making for the sewer rehabilitation policy.

• Proceedings of the Korea Water Resources Association Conference
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• 2009.05a
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• pp.79-83
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• 2009

천변저류지는 침수시 피해가 큰 도시지역을 보호하기 위하여 도시구간의 상류 특정구간을 저류공간으로 이용하여 홍수를 조절하는 방법이다. 천변저류지는 하도흐름에 직접적인 영향을 미치기 때문에 주어진 규모 대비 첨두홍수량 조절효과가 다른 홍수방어대책에 비해 크다고 알려져 있어 유역종합치수계획이나 풍수해저감종합계획 등에서 상당히 자주 주요 검토대상이 되고 있다. 이와 관련하여 GIS를 이용한 천변저류지의 가용입지를 조사하는 방법론 등은 상당한 진보를 이루었으나 이렇게 조사된 다양한 입지들 중에서 특정 보호대상 도시를 기준으로 가장 홍수조절 효과가 크고 경제성이 높은 입지를 판단하는 것은 다양한 수문조건과 이에 대한 정밀한 모의가 필요하므로 상당히 어려운 문제가 된다. 이때 천변저류지의 입지가 보여주는 위치와 규모를 이용하여 개략적으로 홍수조절 효과를 미리 판단할 수 있다면 상위계획단계에서 우선순위 등을 검토할 경우의 개략적인 해석수단으로 유용하게 쓰일 수 있다. 본 연구에서는 SWMM 모형을 이용해 홍수유출 및 하천수리 해석을 연계하여 수행하는 방법론을 통해 천변저류지의 홍수조절효과를 모형화하였다. 이때, 다양한 조건에서의 천변저류지의 위치 및 용량에 따른 홍수조절효과를 모의함으로써 주어진 입지에 따른 최적 홍수방어계획을 수립할 수 있는 기준을 도출할 수 있었다.

• KSCE Journal of Civil and Environmental Engineering Research
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• v.36 no.3
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• pp.529-534
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• 2016

The paper suggests risk management methodology for alleviating casuality accidents at urban railway stations. Risk management deals with countermeasures for reducing accident probability or consequences to reach at the certain level of risk. First of all, Economic evaluations using cost and benefit for all the alternatives are performed. The alternatives exceeding B/C ratio greater than 1, each alternative is applied in the order of higher B/C ratio. this process is repeated when the level of risk is reduced as low as reasonably practical (ALARP). In order to determine the level of ALARP, Level of Service (LOS) for casuality risk at urban railway stations is proposed. The ALARP level is set to the LOS "C". Finally, a case study is applied to the Jongno 3-ga station, which is a highest risky station among all the stations operated by Seoul Metro and Seoul Metropolitan Rapid Transit Cooperation (SMRT).

• Journal of the Korean Regional Science Association
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• v.33 no.4
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• pp.3-17
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• 2017

This study ranks by developing an urban competitiveness index of major global cities, including seven cities in Korea using data from the Global Cities Forecast (2013) provided by Oxford Economics. The City competitiveness index is selected from 18 indicators including scale index, ratio index, growth rate index while Gini coefficient is used for distribution index. In order to analyze the relationship between the competitiveness index and the distribution index, we use the LOGIT panel regression model. As a result, the increase in income inequality (Gini coefficient) has a negative effect on the economic growth rate in 5-year time lag shown statistically significant. We have compiled global rankings of 770 city competitiveness based upon 19 indicators by combining the global competitiveness index and the distribution index. The trend of rank shows that 7 Metropolitan Korean Cities are expected to decline substantially over the period. In particular, Seoul ranked $59^{th}$ in 2010 and $74^{th}$ in 2015. Its ranking is expected to be decline to $185^{th}$ in 2030. The declining competitiveness of Korean cities is expected to lead to a weakening of Korea's national competitiveness in the long run. Accordingly, it is imperative to identify problems and seek strategic plans to secure global urban competitiveness.

• Journal of Korean Society for Geospatial Information Science
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• v.14 no.2 s.36
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• pp.77-88
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• 2006

Overpopulation has been one of the most serious problem of the Seoul Metropolitan Area (SMA), which consists of the City of Seoul, Incheon, and the whole of Gyeonggi Province. People have been still moving into SMA, especially being concentrated into the fringe of Seoul. This study examines the inner city decline phenomenon of SMA which can be easily found in large cities over the world, based on the demographic data of these area. In addition, this study monitors the imbalance in growing of SMA by analyzing RMI (Rank Mobility Index), and the inverse relation between the self sufficiency of the adjacent area and the commuting rate to Seoul by analyzing commuting data. Even though the total population has been unchanged, the internal change of population was substantial. The growth of Seoul Metro region was placed near the city of Seoul, especially commuter data reassured the population concentrations. The results will be useful in urban planning and growth management.