• Journal of the Korean housing association
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• v.24 no.6
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• pp.1-8
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• 2013

The purpose of this study is to perform an analysis on the design methods of the "UR Housing Stock Renewal Design Competition" for Hanahata No.27 Housing by the UR Renaissance Agency in Japan. The analysis is done by looking at the aspects of lifestyle, demographics, environment, and community changes. The results are as follows: 1) Since demographic changes are caused by low fertility, aging populations need the support of locally-based social welfare facilities of which the architectural aspect can be examined. 2) Changes in lifestyle, such as diversity of family composition, flexibility of work, and improvement of leisurely activities require residents to have public spaces and facilities 3) Since environmental changes caused by deteriorated housing need the conversion of awareness about housing estates as a social asset. 4) To revitalize the community, houses, public facilities, and communal outdoor spaces must be connected. The results of this study are expected to serve as clues to the future direction of sustainable conversion in Korea.

• Journal of the Korean housing association
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• v.18 no.6
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• pp.1-13
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• 2007

The purpose of the study was to identify the housing plan responding to lifestyles of residents living in Center of Ulsan city. A total of 230 date sets were analyzed after collecting questionnaire from 284 households using convenient sampling method. For date analysis, descriptive statistics. cross analysis, One-Way ANOVA, factor analysis, cluster analysis were performed by SPSS program. The research centered on the possibility of categorizing lifestyles of residents based upon their living awareness. The results showed that there are four major categorizes of residents's lifestyles. According to classification of their lifestyles, This study tried to analyse the characteristics of residents based upon the characteristics of the households, housing satisfaction. The analysis instrument of the lifestyle concept will be useful to develop the new strategies and to plan the new multi-family houses.

• Journal of the Korean housing association
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• v.13 no.6
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• pp.1-10
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• 2002

As the elderly population increases, concerns for the elderly's welfare become greater both quantitatively and qualitatively. In order to give a chance for the elderly to live in familiar dwelling and regional context to which they are accustomed, and to participate in their society actively, it is of great importance that suitable living spaces must be provided for the elderly. The practical ways of providing people with good living environment and its easy maintenance for healthy and valuable lives were discussed in this paper. This research is designed to propose pertinent policies related to social issues concerning the elderly. 137 seniors over 60 living in Gwanaju city were sampled and surveyed. The scope of planning for the elderly's lifestyle and welfare is divided into two parts, one is planning of space for the realization of stable and spacious dwellings and another is urban environment planning capable of supporting healthy and affluent lifestyles. Also, the realization of stable housing, the construction of urban structure for a healthy life, and the provision of barrier-free living conditions are investigated. For increasing the degree of stabilization and improvement for the elderly's life, self-governing bodies should grasp the demands of living condition and spatial requirements by taking the lifestyles of the elderly into account in urban or regional levels. Then, a master plan including development, improvement, execution, and maintenance of proper housing facilities and urban environments should be made for the best results.

• Journal of the Korean housing association
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• v.18 no.4
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• pp.9-15
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• 2007

Recently elderly has been recognized as a healthy and active generation because of extended average life span by medical development, interests in health, and achieved economic power while elderly was regarded as a passive and dependant generation before. The primary purpose of this study was to analyze the lifestyle types and housing consciousness of the middle ages around fifty's who will have more inclinations in the future to consider the hosing problems of elderly. To collect the data, LOV survey method was used for 600 middle ages about their lifestyles and future housing types. The data analysis used SPSS PC 12.0 to find the frequency, chi-square, factor analysis, and cluster analysis. The results of analysis are as follows: First, the lifestyle was segmented into five groups and there were differences on demographics such as education and income, also on housing sizes and types of home-ownership types. Second, there were different preferences on the types of senior housing by different lifestyles whereas there were similar on the location and sizes of houses by different clusters.

• Korean Institute of Interior Design Journal
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• no.41
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• pp.129-136
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• 2003

The purpose of this study is to analyze consumer's lifestyle, needs and preferences and design trends for planning of the future apartment interior design. Recently, social change such as computerization, industrialization, pluralism and globalization has been braught lots of changes to modern housing spaces. The meaning of ‘Family’ and ‘Residence’ has been diversified by various life-style of modern family. Therefore, the new concept of residence is needed to change for the future housing plans and satisfy their sophisticated needs and preferences considering modern family's lifestyle and life-span. This research was conducted through the questionaire-survey, taste style survey by show card, and focus group interview(F.G.I) for investigating consumer's life style and tastes. Through this research, four-types of consumer's lifestyle were classified by analyzing data and special spaces such as family-room, media room, interior planted-space, and men's room were needed to consider interior space planning. This study shows that the planning of storage space, flexible space, livingroom and multi-used space will be more important in apartment interior space.

• Korean Journal of Human Ecology
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• v.22 no.4
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• pp.707-718
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• 2013

The purpose of this study was to examine media influence on college students' thoughts and explore determinants of the media influence. Between September 7, 2013, and September 12, 2013, a questionnaire survey was administered to students at university-A and total 328 useable responses were collected. Findings are as follows: (1) Houses in TV drama had a strong influence on college students' future housing preferences but had a relatively weak influence on housing satisfaction and concrete housing expectations; (2) students perceived that houses in TV dramas did not reflect reality well; (3) females and/or relatively younger respondents tended to perceive a stronger influence of media on their thoughts and expectation on housing; (4) respondents who had a stronger desire to imitate lifestyle of TV drama characters and a stronger perception that houses in TV drama reflected reality well, and the respondents whose consumption preferences were more easily influenced by media were found to perceive media influence on their housing expectation stronger; and (5) to see regression analysis results, a linear combination of desire to imitate lifestyle of TV drama characters, perception of reality reflection of houses in TV dramas, gender, perceived media influences on clothes and accessories, and electronics preferences was found to be able to explain 46.4% of variance in media influence on housing expectations.

• Journal of the Korean Home Economics Association
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• v.27 no.3
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• pp.103-115
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• 1989

This study has been a study on changes seen in rural kitchens and factors affecting the modernization of agrarian kitchen space. The major findings were as follows: 1) The physical changes in kitchen design were carried out rapidly after 1977. This period coincided directly with the period in which kitchen improvement projects were fostered by the Sae Ma-Eul UNDONG 2) The study showed the macro factors contributing to changes in kitchen space to be government policy and industrialization. The study showed the micro factors influening kitchen space changes to be classified along socio-demographic lines and family lifestyle. 3) The factors affecting the degree of satisfaction with kitchens have been divided into socio-demographic and lifestyle characteristics. The level of education achieved by the husband was the most significant among socio-demographic characteristics. Most important among lifestyle characteristics were the cooking fuel used during the slack farm season, eating habits, heating fuel and eating space respectively. The results of this study have some implications in terms of government housing policy. Policymakers should be aware of suitable kitchen spaces to rural households in order to meet their housing needs and expectations.

• Proceeding of Spring/Autumn Annual Conference of KHA
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• 2008.11a
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• pp.92-95
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• 2008

As society ages increasingly, maintaining an independent lifestyle at home becomes an important issue for older people. The elderly themselves demand an independent lifestyle despite their health status and living arrangements. The purpose of this study is to provide basic guidelines for the elderly housing through the analysis of seniors' housing behavior. The total of 438 residents take part in the questionnaire survey research through the quota sampling method grouped by age (60-64 group, 65-69 group, 70-74 group, over 75 group). The results are as follows. (1) Seniors' subjective physical and functional status is not differed one age group from the others, but it is differed by the sex. (2) Seniors spend more than three hours on watching TV. The male spend more time on information search, while the female on the house chores. (3) The older use the bedroom more than the younger. Living rooms are more frequently used among the young old and the residents live in the apartment houses. (4) More than half senior use a sofa in the living room, a table in the dining room, and a bed in the bedroom. The young old and the apartment residents use such furniture more than the other groups.

• Journal of the Korean housing association
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• v.21 no.1
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• pp.89-101
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• 2010

The purpose of this study is to investigate the concept, the necessity, and the increase of popularity of multi-habitation, a new life style in which inhabitants in urban areas reside in primarily condominiums during weekdays and retreat to dwellings in rural areas on the weekends. This paper also focuses on finding implication messages from analyzing the demand of multi-habitation in a survey which was conducted for 735 people who live in Seoul and the surrounding metropolitan areas in July 2009. Analysis of literature shows that based on five aspects (population structure, social economy, lifestyle, tourism, and housing market) this dynamic lifestyle, multi-habitation, is believed to be common in South Korea, and may increase in popularity in the near future. The results of the survey illustrate that the respondents show high interest in multi-habitation, and their most preferred locations are the green areas around the Seoul metropolitan area, which are one to two hours away by car. Moreover, regarding the participants' preferences in rural areas they were classified into three groups; those who want to reside in a nature environment, those who want to reside near family and in a close community, and those who want to reside in an environment that has essential facilities and easy accessibility.

• Journal of The Korean Digital Architecture Interior Association
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• v.8 no.1
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• pp.49-56
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• 2008

This paper intends to predict characteristic of the balcony space composition in apartment that residents want by analyzing floorplans utilizing balcony that is directly described by housewives in competitions. According to change of age, Modern's lifestyle is variously changed and future housing life may undergo changes continuously. Therefore, development of apartment housing plans is reflected by grasping and collecting space residents desire. Purpose of study is 1) arrangement characteristic of balcony space housewives prefer 2) relations characteristic between balcony and room adjoining balcony 3) characteristic of balcony space composition Through this study, the public space that family use together prefer facing the front side and the kitchen is required to face the front side. Balcony adjoining bedroom is utilized according to user of the bedroom, and independent space like hobby room do not have distinctive relationships with adjacent space. Recent trend that space is reflected in various lifestyle of resident require needs that exercise room for well-being life and other room for various functions. Based upon the study, the results show the basic information and understanding how the plans are supposed to change, particularly to facilitate the usage of the balcony.