• Defense and Technology
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• no.7 s.281
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• pp.28-37
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• 2002

지난 반세기 동안 주한미군은 한반도 안보에 결정적 역할을 수행해 왔따. 그러나 변화하는 안보환경은 국민의 주한미군에 대한 인식에 영향을 미치고 나아가 주한미군의 주둔과 관련 문제들에 영향을 미치고 있따. 한국측에서는 주한미군의 지위를 법적으로 규정하고 있는 '한미행정협정(SOFA)' 의 주한미군 범죄, 환경, 한국인 근로자 노무 규정 등과 관련하여 다양한 불만의 목소리가 나오고 있다. 또한 주한미군측 역시 나름대로 한국 주둔에 따르는 불편함을 호소하고 있는데, 그 대표적인 것이 '주택문제'이다. 이러한 문제들은 단시일 내에 해결되기 어려운 특성을 지니고 있으나 주한미군의 안정적 주둔을 위해서는 반드시 해소되어야 될 과제로 여겨진다.

• Journal of the Korean association of regional geographers
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• v.9 no.3
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• pp.297-313
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• 2003

Problems caused by the U.S. military bases have attracted little attention until recently due to the national security of S.Korea and the peace of North-Eastern Asia, emphasized from the perspective of macro-geopolitics. However, since the political regime has been democratized and political discourses have been liberalized from the 1990s, those problems become a nation-widely serious social issue, though they have been brought about on the local areas. Thus, it can be suggested that micro-geopolitics is highly relevant and significant in approaching the local problems caused by the U.S. military bases, and ultimately resolving the macro-geopolitical problem of longstanding unfair relations in the SOFA and the withdrawal of U.S. troops. This paper aims to consider local problems caused by the U.S. military bases and resolving strategies from the perspective of micro-geopolitics. First of all, it discusses some significance of the micro-geopolitical perspective, as it has been recently emphasized in political geography in considering local problems and politics of life on the basis of place, then looks on empirically criminal and environmental problems caused by the U.S. military bases, analyses the questionnaire date on the perception of local dwellers around the military camps in Nam-gu Daegu, and finally suggests strategies to resolve those problems, which level up from the micro to the macro-scale of geopolitics.