• Korea journal of population studies
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• v.25 no.1
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• pp.33-50
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• 2002

This study examines cross-national patterns of asymmetry of marriage tables with respect to educational level and tries to measure the degree of gender inequality across nations. A Primary assumption of the study is that gender inequality inhibits symmetric marriage between men and women. As men and women differ more in status, the rate of symmetric marriage between them declines thus producing asymmetric marriage with respect to social status. More specifically, the main object of the study is to develop statistical models and index with which to assess the patterns and degree of asymmetric marriage. Additionally, it is intended to assess the appropriateness of several theoretical perspectives for explaining these variations identified by the statistical models. Two most important such perspectives are industrialism and theory of politics and culture. To answer these questions, this study relies on twenty-seven marriage tables with respect to educational level, some from published tables, and some extracted from other sources. The main findings of the study are: (1) compared to less industrialized countries, more industrialized countries have lower degrees of asymmetric marriage(gender inequality) with respect to educational level, and (2) other things being equal, differences in politics and culture seem to have the some impact on marriage pattern; for instance, social democracy and state socialism reduce the degree of asymmetric marriage while the high emphasis on gender-based hierarchy in Asian countries seems to increase it In short, these results suggest a weaker or modified version of industrialists That is, while with economic growth most nations show a decline in the degrees of asymmetric marriage with respect to social status, for some nations the degrees of asymmetric marriage are affected by their specific politics or cultures.

• Korea journal of population studies
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• v.18 no.2
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• pp.1-22
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• 1995

In this paper, the methods to measure the mean age at first marriage is examined, and by analysing data of Korean women for the period 1970-1990, the differences that each methods make on measurements of the mean age at first marriage are presented. The main findings were : The Hajnal's SMAM, the most used index in studies of the pattern of marriage in Korea, was not a measure based on the marriages for a specific period. The resulting biases, in cases of 1970-1990 Korean women, were below 0.3 year in age, which can be considered small, if the changes in the pattern of marriage in these periods took into account. But the possibility of bringing larger bias cannot be excluded. Also the direction of biases was toward raising the mean age when marriage was in upward tendency. Considering the availability of data in Korea, the utilization of the simple mean or the measure from Agarwala method according to the purpose is recommendable. The mean age at first marriage by Agarwala(ASMAM) meets with the one computed from a gross nuptiality table based on the cohort's marriage rates for a specific period. The time series of the proportion single by age groups obtained from the population censuses showed high consistency. However when they were compaired with those computed from sample surveys at a same point of time, significant differences(at $\alpha$=0.05) were found in some major age groups. It was also pointed out that these differences were not caused by the problems related with the sampling frame for surveys or the survey questions.

• Korean Journal of Heritage: History & Science
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• v.20
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• pp.239-278
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• 1987

보성군에서 수집한 민요들의 의식·노동·유희요(謠) 별(別)로 정리하였다. 의식요(儀式謠)로는 걸메당·상여·독경(讀經)소리가 실렸다. 전래(傳來) 혼인식(式)에 있어서의 가마소리인 걸메당소리는 전국의 몇 곳에서만이 가창자가 남아 있는 희요(稀謠)이다. 상여소리(처음에 운구 들어 울릴때의 긴소리, 길 갈 때의 가난보살과 어가리넘자, 비탈길 오를 때의 나무아미타불, 달구소리)는 전남지방에 널리 전파되어 있는 것과 동계(同系)이다. 노동요(謠)는 주로 농요(農謠)<광의(廣義)>가 수집되었다. 소동패전갈을 수록하였다. 모심기곡(曲)은 공(共)히 일반 농부가 쪼임에 비하여 모찌기와 논매기곡(曲)(<표2>참조)은 다양성을 띄웠다. 산아지로고나곡(曲)은 전(全) 면(面)에 두루 퍼져 있으며 논맬 때, 장원질소리, 소동패노래에도 쓰인다. 산떨이(올라간다)는 고흥군의 것과 같다. 터 다지는 노래로는 얼럴럴 상사도야를, 상량노래로는 어유아 상량이야를 부른다. 줄메고 나가는 노래의 받음구는 위야허허 또는 상사뒤여뒤여(회촌면)이다. 유희요(謠)는 남사당의 덜미 (꼭두각시극)노래인 떼루와 제나난실을 싣고 그 위에 치마·줌치·사위·강도령·이노래 등을 실었다.

• Korea journal of population studies
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• v.28 no.2
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• pp.219-243
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• 2005

This paper reviews research outputs in Korea Journal of Population Studies (KJPS) and the changes in their contents during the period of 1977-2004. In the early years of KJPS, various types of outputs were published, but changes have been made into a direction that research articles compose the main context of the journal. As the journal published twice a year, the total number of articles of the journal shows a trend of marked rise. An analysis of the themes of articles shows that the trend of research in Korean demography has changed hand in hand with transformations of the Korean society. The traditional topics such as population policy, fertility, mortality, and migration were popular before. Labor force, nuptiality, family, aging, regional studies are found to be more popular themes of research recently. Reflecting academic and social demands, KJPS has a broaden range of authors, such as professor, researcher, a government employee, post-doc, and graduate students. The articles written by those working in universities have increased continuously, while research outputs of research institutes have decreased recently. The data for analysis used in articles are varied from but concentrated in some materials - census, vital statistics and various survey data. In early years of KJPS, relatively simple techniques of analysis were adopted in the majority of articles. However, more sophisticated techniques including applied regression analysis, logistic analysis and analysis of survival ratio turn out to be more popular recently. Finally, several suggestions for the future research are presented in this paper.