• Journal of the Korean Geographical Society
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• v.39 no.4
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• pp.683-695
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• 2004

It is generally found that geography majors' progression in society has a very limited scope in Korea and this is one of the causes of lessening geographers' job market. As an attempt to draw a solution to this problem, this paper, by a close examination of the French case, tries to discuss the possibility of geographers' participation in the public sector. Geographers' participation in political and social issues has long history. They acted as providers of geographical knowledge on human and physical features of the world and also as counsellors for effective administration and politics. French geographers evaluate that it is the characteristics of geography that enable geographers to progress into the public sector. They also perceive that such fields as regional development, environment, economy, tourism, international politics are possible ones for geographers. Some implications can be drawn from this case study to extend geographers' participation in the pubic sector in Korea; it is required to sustain open mind to every field of social sciences, to improve specialized as well as generalized knowledge on geographical features, and to provide practical knowledge on spatial analysis and management.

• Journal of the Korean Geographical Society
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• v.36 no.4
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• pp.343-355
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• 2001

Geomancy (feng-shui in Chinese and Pungsu in Korean) has had a significant impact on the Korean culture and is still practiced by many Koreans. This art is thought to have originated from the early Chinese people's search for an ideal site for preparing a cave dwelling. Ever since geomancy was introduced to Korea, it has been a crucial factor in the development of the Korean cultural landscape and the Korean geomentality. The current tendency of avoiding research into geomancy by the Korean geographers might have developed from their desire to avoid wrongly labeling themselves as geomancers and their discipline as geomancy studies. The geographer\`s aim of studying geomancy is not to prove the truthfulness of geomantic doctrines, but is to document and explain the impact of geomancy on the Korean culture.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Sericultural Science Conference
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• 2003.04a
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• pp.15-15
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• 2003

독일의 지리학자 Ferdinand F.Von Richthofen(1833-1905)의 $\boxDr$China$\boxUl$ (1877)에서 비단길(Seidenstrassen-영역 silk road) -동서 교통의 역사를 개관하고서 중국과 서툴키스탄 및 북서 인도와의 silk 무역을 매개한 중앙아시아 경유의 길을 일렀음. 리히트호펜에서 한걸음 나아가, 1910년 독일 지리학자 알벨트헬만 (Albert Herrmann)은 한 대(BC 114 - AD 127의 견의 최대의 판로의 하나가 시리아였음을, 들어, 내륙 아시아 및 이란을 경우 중국에 이르른 통로를 추가함. (직후 시리아의 팔미라 분묘에서 다수의 한면 발견) (중략)

• Journal of the Korean Geographical Society
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• v.47 no.4
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• pp.568-591
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• 2012

Korean historical geography as a distinct subset of modern geography began with the path-breaking efforts of Do-Yang Roh in the second half of the 1940s. He was joined in 1960 by founding father Dr. Chan Lee who carried with himself the Berkeley geography he learned from Fred Kniffen, his advisor, and Robert West at Louisiana State University. Dr. Lee, the single-most important figure in the development of Korean historical geography, founded in 1988 the Association of Korean Cultural and Historical Geographers in order to pull together those interested in past geographies and geographical change. Korean historical geography took off in the 1980s when large numbers of doctoral theses were produced domestically and abroad and British cross-sectional methodology added. Diversity in research theme and methodology characterizes present-day Korean historical geography.

• Proceedings of the KGS Conference
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• 2004.05a
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• pp.17-24
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• 2004

우리나라에서 대학에 지리학과가 신설되어 전문적인 교육을 실시한 지 어언 50여 년의 세월이 흐르고 있다. 50년이라는 세월은 하나의 학문을 정착시키기에 충분한 시간이었음에도 불구하고 지리학은 한국사회에서 그 연륜에 상응하는 인지도를 획득하지 못하고 있다. (중략)

• Journal of the Korean association of regional geographers
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• v.10 no.2
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• pp.223-234
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• 2004

Geography as a field of learning had its beginnings among the scholars of ancient Greece. The emergence of modern Geography was much due to the collection and classification of information about overseas areas. Today, world regional geography, which may be called area studies in other social sciences, is regarded as an introductory geography course in many American universities. World regional geography, however, has been much neglected by Korean geographers. Many factors have made Korean geographers not concentrate their efforts to area studies. The exterior factors include the great expenses for the area studies' fieldworks, and the many geographers' involvement in the writing of geography textbooks and atlases for school students. The interior factors include all the ethno-centric, mysterious, and authoritarian perspectives a large number of Korean geographers strongly stick to.

• Journal of the Korean Geographical Society
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• v.32 no.4
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• pp.561-572
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• 1997

This paper attempts to analyze the changes of the contents in foreign area research carried out by Korean geographers, and discuss the task of the new regional geography in a global-local context. As compared with domestic area research, only a scant of foreign area research has been carried out. In the 1990's, the research interests are paid to how an open economy affects the regional economy, especialy the production technique, division of labor, industrial mix, market strategy, industrial location and organization, and so on. Unfortunately, however, the boundaries between economic geography and regional economy are gradully disappearing.

• Journal of the Korean association of regional geographers
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• v.11 no.1
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• pp.123-144
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• 2005

• Journal of the Korean association of regional geographers
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• v.10 no.2
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• pp.235-251
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• 2004

This article is a review on the Korean geographers' China studies. There were severe limits to make China study in Korea during the Cold War Period. Since 1992, the fear of Korea-China establishment of diplomatic relation Korean geographers' China studies have been increased substantially Until December 2003, 89 articles were published on the journals related to geographical study, and 9 Ph.D. dissertations were submitted to graduate school departments of geography or geography education in Korea. This is an evidence of the rapid development of China study in Korean geographical society. Early 1990s, geographers of Yanbian university located in northeast China played an important role in the development of research. After the period, Korean domestic geographers' studies have also increased. There has been a distinct progress in the fields of economic and urban geography. However, the development of theory, diversification of themes, and professional study in the macro-regional scale could be proposed as the tasks of future research.

• Journal of the Korean Geographical Society
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• v.39 no.6 s.105
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• pp.873-887
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• 2004

We examined research trends in geomorphology and hydrogeography in America based on papers presented at the annual meetings of the Association of American Geographers(AAG) and papers published in two AAG journals between 2002 and 2004. Among the 437 papers in geomorphology, $40\%$ of the papers concerned fluvial geomorphology, followed by environmental geomorphology and glacial and periglacial geomorphology concern. Among the 452 papers in hydrogeography, about $20\%$ of the papers focused on water, law and institutional aspects, followed by hydrogeomorphology and hydrologic modeling. Twenty one papers examining geomorphology and hydeogeography were published in two AAG journals, and fluvial geomorpholoy was the dominant theme. GIS was used for $29\%$ papers in geomorphology and $35\%$ of papers in hydrogeography($35\%$), suggesting that other methods, including geostatistics, field survey, and qualitative methods, are employed as well. This methodological diversification seems to be associated with solving such complex environmental problems as integrated watershed management and implies that geomorphologists and hydrogeographers are expanding their traditional territories and are making close connections with human-environment geographers and human geographers. Geomorphologists and hydrogeographers are likely to continue examining the causes of and solving environmental problems that humans are currently facing and might face in the future.