• Korean Institute of Interior Design Journal
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• v.13 no.6
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• pp.82-90
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• 2004

The purpose of this study is to investigate the remodeling of apartments housing unit according to the area type and size in order to provide useful information for future plans for more consumer-friendly dwelling units. To achieve this goal quantitative data analyses were employed. The sample was a total of 100 apartments analysed in previous researches conducting case studies on apartments remodeling. The data were analyzed by SPSS WIN program package in terms of frequency, percentage, and x2-test. The results of the study are as follows: The change of finishing materials were made in almost all of the sample. 6.4, 8.6 and 10.6 categories were altered in the small, medium, and large apartments respectively out of 21 remodeling categories. In the case of communal areas, change of finishing materials and installation, removal, and change of lighting fixtures were most frequent. The most frequent alteration in private areas was also observed In change of finishing materials and installation, removal and change of lighting fixtures.

• Archives of design research
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• v.14 no.1
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• pp.135-144
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• 2001

The purpose of this study is to investigate the relationships between apartment residents'satisfaction and preferences and their environments on purpose to provide useful data for developing new apartment environment based on resident's needs and wants. this research was executed through a questionnaire survey method. The major findings are as follows : (1) Preference of large space of apartment dwelling is still prevailing. The older people have the tendency to prefer orientation to vista. (2) Among environmental factors of livingroom, size is mostly ranked higher than vista and orientation. Result of higher ranking of vista than orientation can be explained with the change of life cycle and patterns based on social environmental change and development of environmental control systems. (3) The highest concern about interior design is targeted to livingroom, and quality of finish materials is preferred at the highest.

• Korean Journal of Construction Engineering and Management
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• v.15 no.4
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• pp.86-94
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• 2014

Since the late 1990s, mixed-use apartment, armed with high qualities and large scales with a high ratio of TFA(Total Floor Area) have been continuously provided accommodating exclusive community facilities along with high-tech securities, not to mention excellent skyline view. However, especially in mid-small cities, there have been only a few supplies. As a result, none of the mixed-use housing provided by high-end brands has ever been built in non-metropolitan area. But constructors couldn't plan the projects which aims to build the mixed-use apartment in local city, because they couldn't get the basic data or advanced research for feasibility analysis. Therefore, to suggest the useful price for mixed-use apartment supply project of local city, the PSM(Price Sensitivity Method) widely used for determining the price preferences as a market research tools has been applied. As analysis results, the estimated price of mixed-use apartment is 10.8% higher than general apartment, and mixed-use apartment has lower price sensitivity than general apartment. As price determinants, the age, education level and family size influence on UTP in significant level. It is expected that these research findings can be applied for establishing the solid marketing strategy of mixed-use apartment development project in local city.

• Journal of the Korean housing association
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• v.16 no.2
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• pp.1-10
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• 2005

The purpose of this study is providing useful information for consumer-friendly house plan by investigating remodeling apartments according to the area type and size. In order to achieve this aim, case study was applied. The case study was conducted of five small, medium, and large size apartments through depth-interviews, actual survey, and questionnaires on the remodeling behavior, interior design, and interior atmosphere. The results of the study are as follows: Structural alterations were frequent in communal area, and then in private and household areas. Changing lighting fixtures was frequent in all area types, and especially, in communal areas installing extra decoration was frequently observed. Besides, alterations of doors and window frames were carried out in communal, private, housework and service areas by using wood, aluminum sashes, double-glazing, and paint coating. Finally, in housework areas the material and color of counters were changed into wooden and achromatic.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Interior Design Conference
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• 2002.04a
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• pp.53-57
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• 2002

The purpose of this study was to investigate the remodeling of apartments according to the area type and size in order to provide some information for the future plans for more consumer-friendly dwelling units. To achieve this goal, quantitative data analyses was employed. The sample was a total of 100 apartments analysed on apartments remodeling. The data were analyzed by SPSS WIN program package in terms of frequency, percentage, and x 2-test on the actual remodeling behaviors according to the area type and size of apartments. For the future research case studies recommended small, medium, and large sizes of apartments respectively through interviews, actual surveys, and questionnaires on remodeling behavior, interior design, and interior atmosphere according to the area type and size of apartments.

• Korean Institute of Interior Design Journal
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• v.13 no.6
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• pp.91-98
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• 2004

The purpose of this study was to investigate the residents' awareness toward the differentiation of design factors in apartments in order to offer the information helpful to housing designers. Documentary research and questionnaire survey methods were used in this study. In this survey, internet web survey was carried out using questionnaire tool that was extracted in the Preliminary survey. This web survey was carried out on 124 housewives from January 6 2004 to January 20 2004. Data were analyzed with the SPSS PC+ window version 11.0. The major results of this study are as follows. 1) Residents' educational level is high and they are so young nuclear family and they live in Seoul and metropolitan area. 2) They want 85$m^2$ type apartment and the dress room that is so large. 3) Although they have evaluate very Important factors to architectural design which are apartment plan design, space design, interior design, storage design, equipment and high-tech system design, it seems that they are interested in interior design among the design factors in apartments. 4) There is significant difference the evaluation of importance toward the differentiation of design factors in apartments according to housing size when they move to go.

• Journal of the Korean housing association
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• v.4 no.2
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• pp.73-83
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• 1993

Recently, large APT complexes are newly constructed in Taegu city and among them, large APT complexes aggegate densly espically in Weolsung and Jisan complexes of Dalsuh-gu and Susung-gu districts. The purpose of this thesis is to perform occupants' apprasials about residential environment on the housewifes residing at new constructed APT who seem tn have different apprasials on the residential environment by the zones. The results of the investigations are as follows. 1. House possessed type and house sire got elevated in comparison with them before shifting residence in respect to residential property and it was revealed they moved to short distance in the change of their lands. And most occupants could choose their houses by looting-out and there's some difference in the choice motive according to the zones. 2. As a result of studying the relation between demographic and residential properties, there were deep differe-nces in the Possessed house type before move, possessed house size after move, preferenti-al degree of house and move plan. 3. In the degree of satisfaction on residential environment, the result was high in the order of heating facilities, water-supply and draining facilities and lighting and was low in the order of room's size, interior decoration and soundproofin. According to zones, there was a great difference in the items of room's size, privacy, heating facilities, securi-ty from calamity, ventilation, convenience of traffic and school group and facilities for extracurricular activities and the degree of satisfaction was high in Jisan zone in othe items except for room's size and heating facilities. 4. In the tenants' apprasials on tile inside and outside spaces of the zones, important factors were "Cultural Institutions", "Green Areas", "Level of Welfare Facilities" and "Utility degree of welfare facilities" and in the classification of important factors according to the zones, the first and the third factors were changed each other. I think this is because they attached importance to somethings dissatisfied in present circumstances.

• Korean Institute of Interior Design Journal
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• v.23 no.3
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• pp.173-180
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• 2014

Dwelling connotes characteristics like social and cultural and technical climatic conditions, lifestyles and demands of regions, and especially, apartment, as one of dwelling types, shows various aspects of modern society. With the economic development centering on large cities, apartments have been established as universal housing forms in Seoul and Shanghai. The deepening of economic development in cities has increased small households consisting of one or two persons by affecting the population and household structure, and they've become information consumer groups. This has also influenced the size of apartment and increased the demand for small-sized housing. If the floor area is small, it is possible to use space widely according to the plan composition, so there is a need for floor planning to understand natural environment, physical environment and residents.This study compared and analyzed plan compositions of small-sized apartments which have been parceled out for the recent three years in Seoul and Shanghai. This study aims to understand housing cultures and users in the two countries depending on natural environments, living habits and spatial functions by analyzing common points and differences of public spaces like living room, dining room and kitchen, and private spaces like bedroom which have absolute effects on room arrangement and traffic line. The study results are as follows. From the perspective of natural environments, in Seoul, two-sided open cross-ventilation structure where is favorable to lighting and ventilation, occupied the biggest proportion of public space, while in Shanghai, most public spaces had lighting and ventilation structures through windows in each room. In Seoul, 3R type occupied the largest proportion of private space(87.7%), and privacy was maintained and space scale was adjusted using spaces with diverse functions such as bathroom in the couple bedroom, dress room and powder room and variable walls. But 2R type occupied the largest proportion of private space(60.2%) in Shanghai, and they emphasized private space and privacy of each room depending on major living habits. In conclusion, this study for comparing and analyzing common points and differences of small-sized apartment plan compositions in Seoul and Shanghai will provide proper guidelines for small-sized apartments to be built in Seoul and Shanghai in the future, if strong points and weak points of plan compositions in the two countries will be additionally analyzed and remedied.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Building Construction Conference
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• 2012.05a
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• pp.127-128
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• 2012

Exhaustion of fossil fuels and continued high oil prices, global warming, climate change and to respond to the development and use of alternative energy technologies is expanding rapidly throughout the world. Recently, character of domestic building is appearing by along with economic growth, high-rise, large size, congestion. For this reason, the amount of electrical energy used in a building is increasing. In this study, the applicability of PV modules that are used as roofing and efficiency analysis, and more from the building of BIPV modules built using the activation of alternative energy sources in Korea are aimed want done.

• Korean Institute of Interior Design Journal
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• v.13 no.2
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• pp.109-119
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• 2004

This study was intended to grasp the housing unit plan which the residents preferred. The subjects were 100 housewives who lived in 85$m^2$ sized housing units in the New Apartment Complex, Gimhae. First, four elements of unit plan were selected on the basis of the results of the POE which was carried out for the same subject the size of master bedroom and living room, the openness of dining/kitchen from living room, the openness of living room from entrance, and whether or not a bathtub or a shower booth is in bathroom. Then, eight design alternatives of unit plan made by combination of these four elements according to orthoplan were visualized by computer media. This visualized tool was used for collecting data. The results of the study were as follows: The important determinants of the residents' preferences for unit plan were the size of master bedroom and living room and the openness of living room from entrance. The residents preferred the unit plan which living room was large and the view from living room to dining/kitchen was open. Also, the important elements were different according to the characteristics of the residents. Therefore, the housing alternatives which are flexible and optional would be desirable.