• 한국인구학
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• 제11권2호
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• pp.33-53
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• 1988

This study aimed at developing a desirable family planning policy and strategy by examining the current status of family planning practice in rural Korea and by indentifying the crucial factors which affect fertility control behavior. For this purpose, an analytical study was conducted, using the survey data collected in July 1985, on an interview basis, on 1, 440 married women living in the Soyi, Wonnam and Maingdong townships of Eumseong County(in North Chungcheong Province). This study population has the typical characteristics of rural areas, and the results of the analysis can be summarized as follows: 1. In regard to the demographic characteristics of the study population : their average age at marriage was 23.7, they had an average of 2.6 children( 1.3 boys, 1.3 girls) :10% experienced the death of their child (ren) :14% had spontaneous abortion(s) :4% weathered stillbirth(s) :35% went through induced abortion (s) : and 5.5% were currently pregnant. The average of their ideal numbers of children was 2.2, while 44% felt that they must have a son. 2. Looking at the contact rate with medical & health institutions, over the past 1 year, the visit rate to health subcenters was 43.7%, while 26.9% visited the (county) health center :59.6% had been to private clinics : and 41.5% went to the Soonchunhyang - Eumsung hospital : thus showing a relatively high rate of accessibility. 3. The utilization rate of family planning services was 76.5%, with tubectomy being the most prominent method at 52.3%, while the informants were health workers in 54.2% of the acceptors. Of the 8.4% who discontinued the use of contraceptive methods, only 26% did so due to want for pregnancy, natural infertility (meno - pause), or other reasons, while the remaining 74% stopped usage on account of side effects, failure in the methods themselves, and inconvenience of use, thus pointing to a situation where the proper choice of family planning methods have not yet been made. It can be noted that there is a strong motivation for early birth stopping as 35.3% practice family planning even with only one child, of which 38.3% have had sterilization operations. According to results of a multiple regression analysis, among the variables affecting contraception usage the most significant variable was the number of sons. 4. 34.8% experienced induced abortions. It was shown as a result of multiple regression analysis that the number of children and attitudes toward induced abortions extensively affected their frequency of abortions conducted. 5. In the regard to the relation between family planning and induced abortions, 33.7% of the women used both, while 52.0% of them used only the former(family planning), with only 1.4 % utilizing solely the latter(abortion), and 12.9% totally abstaining from fertility regulation : again, the discriminant analysis indicated that the choice of family planning and/or induced abortion was determined by the number of children and attitudes toward induced abortion. In view of the above mentioned results, the following are some comments and suggestions concerning problems related to the current family planning policies, in Korea : 1. It is difficult to expect a further quantitative expansion in family planning program operations, as there has been an excessive supply of target-oriented sterilization operations on women. From a maternal and child health care point of view, it will be desirable to have a diversification of service points in the future where family planning methods may be properly chosen, so that choices of methods which suit the mothers' characteristics and tastes may be made by the individuals themselves by strengthening their quality of family planning information services. 2. Along with the strengthening of the qualitative improvement of family planning services policies must be implemented to effectively promote the moral (ethical) deterrents to induced abortions and to preference for sons. From a maternal care standpoint, the social permissive norm toward induced abortion must be modified, and the bias towards son must be analyzed as the women with more daughters have a lower rate of family planning acceptance. Such changes in attitudes, however, can not be hoped to be accomplished with ad hoc policies, but will only be possible when an enhancement of the women's status(within the society) is brought about in a long - term perspective.

• 헤리티지:역사와 과학
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• 제51권1호
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• pp.48-65
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• 2018

1874년 박규현이 기술한 '파산서당기'를 중심으로 분석한 파산서당의 영건과정과 조경식물의 변화상을 추적한 연구결과는 다음과 같다. 첫째, 대구 달성의 하빈면 묘리 파회에 자리한 살림집 삼가헌과 별당(파산서당)은 사육신 박팽년(1417~1456)의 11대손 박성수로부터 14대손 박규현에 이르기 까지 약 90년간(1783~1874)에 걸쳐 완성되었는데, 풍수적 회룡고미형(回龍顧尾形)으로 회자되는 길처이다. 둘째, 파회마을은 박성수가 1769년(영조 45)에 벗들과 교우하기 위해 초가를 짓고 자신의 호(삼가헌(三可軒))를 당호로 삼은 것으로부터 유래하는데, 둘째아들 박광석이 분가(1783)한 후 사랑채(1826)와 안채(1869)를 지었고, 박광석의 손자 박규현이 1874년에 연을 심어 가꾼 연못과 정자(하엽정)를 추가했으며, 파산서당 명칭은 삼가헌 뒷동산 지명과 연계된다. 셋째, 네모꼴 연못은 길이 21m, 너비 15m 규모로 연꽃을 심었는데, 못 가운데 원형 섬을 두어 조선시대의 보편적인 성리학적 세계관을 반영하고 있다. 파산서당에 부가된 정자(하엽정)의 명칭, 동쪽 방 이연헌(怡燕軒), 서쪽 방 몽양재(蒙養齋) 등은 군자적 삶의 염원, 그리고 자손들의 밝은 미래를 염원하는 뜻을 담았다. 넷째, 성리학적 규범(소나무, 연꽃, 대나무), 안빈낙도의 생활철학(버드나무), 은일사상과 태평성대의 염원(대나무), 그리고 구휼목적과 실용성(밤나무, 상수리나무, 가래나무, 옻나무 등)에 비중을 둔 식재수종의 반영을 추적할 수 있는데, 이는 서당이라고 하는 장소성과 상징성, 절제미학 등을 고려한 조경법이라 하겠다. 다섯째, 조영초기 식재수종은 회화나무와 연꽃을 제외하고 대부분 고사하여 다른 수종으로 대체되었는데, 서당 기능의 상실과 풍수적 가치(홍동백서 상징수종), 벽사기능(엄나무와 탱자나무), 심미성 및 실용적 가치(해당화, 매화, 배나무, 복숭아나무, 굴참나무), 가문의 번영과 변화지 않는 청백의 삶(자귀나무, 배롱나무, 주목), 심미관 등 후손들의 확장된 작정관을 보여주는 사례이다.

• 고전문학과교육
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• 제38호
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• pp.175-200
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• 2018

조선시대의 법과 관습을 기준으로 볼 때, 춘향과 이몽룡의 사랑, 춘향과 변학도의 갈등과 대결, 이몽룡의 암행어사 출도와 춘향 구출 등의 사건들은 새로운 의미를 함축하는 것으로 해석될 수 있다. 춘향과 이몽룡의 사랑은 당시의 법과 규범에 저촉되는 것이었지만 서술자는 이를 문제 삼지 않으며 오히려 지배 질서에 저항하는, 낭만적이고 새로운 사랑으로 그렸다. 그리고 춘향은 이몽룡에게 혼인을 보장한다는 증서(證書)를 요구하는데, 이는 전례 없는 법적 행위이다. 춘향과 이몽룡의 사랑이 공적인 인정을 받지 못한 상태에서 춘향과 변학도의 갈등과 대립이 전개된다. 변학도는 춘향에 대한 성적 욕구를 충족시키기 위해 수청을 요구하다 거부당하자 춘향에게 관장(官長)의 명령을 따르지 않은 혐의와 관장을 능욕한 혐의를 씌워 형추(刑推)를 가하고, 이에 맞서 춘향은 법의 부당한 적용을 항의하고, 수청 요구를 유부녀를 겁간(劫姦)하는 범죄라고 맞선다. 흥미롭게도 이 과정에서 관장이 소속 관청의 기생에게 수청을 요구하는 것은 위법 행위라는 점이 문제로 제기되지 않으며, 사욕(私慾)을 위해 법을 남용하는 변학도의 행위와 춘향의 새로운 법의식이 더 부각된다. 춘향과 결연한 이몽룡이 암행어사 출도를 하여 변학도를 봉고파직(封庫罷職)하고 춘향을 구출하는 것은 어사의 권한을 사적(私的) 목적으로 이용한 혐의를 피하기 어렵다. 그러나 서술자나 남원 민중과 국왕 등 작중 인물들은 이를 문제 삼지 않는다. 변학도와 이몽룡의 법 집행에 대한 이러한 상이한 평가는 작중 인물들과 독자들의 법감정(法感情)에 의한 것으로 이해된다. 즉 이몽룡과 춘향의 새로운 사랑과 춘향의 인권 의식에 공감하는 관점에서 변학도는 징치되어야 마땅하다고 보는 법감정이 형성되었고, 암행어사 출도는 오히려 이 법감정에 극적 쾌감을 주는 장치로 수용된 것으로 볼 수 있다. 따라서 춘향과 이몽룡의 사랑은 당시의 실정법을 넘어서는 새로운 법감정을 동반하는 것으로 해석할 수 있으며, 이 법감정은 춘향의 인권의식에 대한 공감에 기초해 있다고 볼 수 있다.

• 기독교교육논총
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• 제67권
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• pp.301-337
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• 2021

연구자는 현대 한국 사회에 큰 충격을 던져주었던 N번방 사건을 계기로 한국 청소년성교육을 둘러싼 각종 논쟁들과 시각의 차이를 살펴보았다. 한국 청소년 성교육은 학교 성교육과 및 청소년성문화센터를 통해 이루어지는 공적 성교육과 보수적·전통적 개신교 성교육으로 나누어질 수 있다. 공적 성교육은 여성주의 성윤리 및 해외의 포괄적 성교육의 영향을 일부 받아 성인지 감수성 및 성적 자기 결정권을 기본으로 성희롱, 성매매, 성폭력, 가정폭력 예방의 4가지 예방을 주요 사업으로 실시 중이다. 단, 학교 성교육표준안은 성역할 고정관념 및 성차별적 내용, 성폭력에 대한 왜곡된 통념 강화 및 성적 다양성과 다양한 가족 형태의 배제 등으로 비판받았으며, 청소년성문화센터 교육의 일부 내용 역시 마찬가지의 비판을 받고 있다. 보수적·전통적 개신교는 양성에 의한 결혼 등의 정상 가족 이데올로기와 혼전순결주의, 결혼 관계 안에서만 인정되는 성관계 윤리 등을 기본으로 하여 청소년들에게 피임법을 성에 대한 생물학적이고 의학적 지식을 가르치는 것-피임법 등-에 대해 강하게 반대하면서 공적 성교육과 대치하는 형태를 이루고 있다. 연구자는 한국 청소년 성교육을 위한 커리큘럼을 구성하면서 먼저 공적 성교육, 보수적·전통적 개신교 성윤리와 성교육, 여성주의 성윤리와 성교육, 해외 청소년성교육의 특징을 각각 분석하였다. 그리고 청소년 성교육의 보다 근본적인 해결책으로 금욕주의나 혼전순결주의, 성인지 감수성과 성적 자기결정권 교육으로는 한계가 있음을 지적하면서 이의 대안을 여성신학에서 말하는 몸과 성 개념에서 찾았다. 연구자는 다양한 여성신학자의 연구를 중심으로 왜곡된 성인식과 성문화는 이원론적 성과 몸 이해가 가장 근본적인 원인이라는 인식 하에 몸과 성에 대한 재개념화가 필요하다고 지적하며 이를 통전적 성, 타인과의 관계 속에서 이해되는 상호연대적인 성, 전 지구적인 공동체로 확장되는 영성으로서의 성 개념의 세 가지로 개념화하였다. 그리고 각각의 영역을 위한 교육과정으로 1)통전적 성: 호흡하기, 내러티브, 자신의 몸과 마음의 형태를 만들어보기 2)타인과의 관계성 안에서 이해되어지는 상호연대적인 성: 다른 사람의 호흡 느껴보기, 의식화를 통한 미디어 리터러시, 선한 바람 보내기 3)전 지구적 관심으로 확장되는 영성으로서의 성: 자연에 주의를 기울이고 공동 경작하기, 지구의 신음을 듣고 새로운 삶의 형식 만들어가기, 지구 및 동료 생명체들과 함께 하는 기도문 작성하기로 제안하였다.

• 대중서사연구
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• 제25권2호
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• pp.247-275
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• 2019

본고에서는 박계형의 소설에 대한 좀 더 다양한 학적 관심이 촉발되길 기대하며, 작가와 작품을 연대기적으로 훑어보면서 박계형 소설의 핵심적 요소를 '낭만성'으로 포착하였다. 이때의 낭만성은 서정성, 감상성, 정신성, 비현실성, 이상주의적 성질이다. 취향으로 발견된 낭만주의적 세계 이해를 바탕으로 소설의 핵심 제재는 사랑이며, 사랑하는 관계에서 발생하는 즐거움, 환희, 기쁨의 측면보다는 이별, 아픔, 외로움의 측면에 집중하면서 슬픔의 감정을 주조한다. 비애의 정조를 바탕으로 소설의 결말은 실패, 죽음, 배신으로 종결되기에 비극적 낭만성을 구현한다. 등단 후 결혼하기 이전까지 박계형의 소설은 시적 감수성을 바탕으로 아름다운 사랑에 대한 강렬한 동경을 드러내는 연애소설이다. 목가주의적 세계와 자연에 대한 동경은 낭만주의적 세계관을 드러내고, 결국 그렇지 못한 환경 속에서 절망하고 갈망하며, 사랑의 진정성과 도덕성을 찾아가고자 한다. 주부가 된 박계형은 '센티멘탈'이 아니라 '높은 차원에서의 낭만'을 구현시켜 독자들에게 '향수' 같은 것에 젖어볼 수 있는 작품을 쓰고 싶다고 피력한다. 이후의 작품에서는 육적인 관계를 사랑의 실패로, 영적인 관계를 사랑의 결실로 다루면서 사랑의 고도한 정신성, 이상주의적 동경, 종교성을 드러낸다. 박계형은 20여 년의 절필 이후 새 작품을 출간하면서 이전 작품에 대한 부끄러움을 고백한다. 그리고 '파괴된 인간성 회복'이라는 새로운 화두로 소설 집필의 의욕을 드러낸다. 하지만 2000년대 발표한 두 소설에서 '인간성'에 대한 탐색은 소설의 말미에 다소 급조된 경향이 보인다. 소설은 이전의 베스트셀러 소설처럼 서정성과 감상성을 미감할 수 있는 회상적 구조의 연애서사를 전면화하기에 높은 가독률을 갖는다. 하지만 인간의 순수한 본성에 대한 갈구, 죄와 용서의 문제가 서사 내부에서 인물의 치열한 내적 고민과 행동의 결과물이기 보다는 처해진 현실적 패배로 인해 삶의 방편으로서 구하게 된 차선책이며 이 또한 소설의 말미에서 종교성으로 급전된 양상을 보인다. 그러므로 피상적 의미의 낭만성을 획득한다.

• 대한간호학회지
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• 제7권2호
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• pp.43-59
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• 1977

The Community Health Service considers the family as a service unit and places the emphasis of its service on the health problems and the nursing needs of the family rather than the individual. From the conceptual point of view that tile community health service is both health maintenance and health promotion of the family, the community health nurse should have a knowledge of the growth and development of the family and be responsible for the comprehensive support of normal family development. The community health nurse often is in a position to make a real contribution to normal family development. In order to investigate the relationship between the areas of nursing need and family development, the following objectives were established 1. To discover the general characteristics of the study population by the stage of family development. 2. To discover specific nursing needs in relation to the family developmental stage, and to determine the intensity of the nursing needs and the ability of the family to cope with these needs. 3. To discover overall family health nursing problems in relation to the family developmental stage and determine the intensity of the nursing need and the problem solving ability of family. Definitions : The family developmental stages as classified by Dually were used stage 1. Married couples(without children) stage 2. Childbearing Families (oldest child birth to 30 months of age) stage 3. Families with preschool children (oldest child 2½-to 6 years) stage 4. Families with schoolchildren (oldest child 6 to 13 years). stage 5. Families with teenagers (oldest child 13 to 20 years) stage 6. Families as launching centers (first child gone to last child′s leaving home). stage 7. Middle- aged parents (empty nest to retirement) stage 8. Aging family member (retirement to death of both spouses) The areas of nursing need were defined as those used in the study, "A Comprehensive Study about Health and Nursing Need and a Social Diagram of the Community", by tile Nursing research Institute and Center for population. and Family Planning, July 1974. The study population defiled and selected were 260 nuclear families ill two myron of Kang Hwa Island. Percent, mean value and F- test were utilized in tile statistical analysis of the study result. Findings : 1. General characteristics of the study population by tile family developmental stage ; 1)The study population was distributed by the family developmental stage as follows : stage 1 : 3 families stage 2 : 13 families stage 3 : 24 families stage 4 : 41 families stage 5 : 50 families stage 6 : 106 families stage 7 : 13 families stage 8 : 10 families 2) Most families had 4 or 5 members except for those in stage, 1, 7, and 8. 3) The parents′ present age was older in the higher developmental stage and their age at marriage was also younger in the higher developmental stages. 4) The educational level of parents was primarily less than elementary school irrespective of the developmental stage. 5) More than half of parents′ occupations were listed as laborers irrespective of the developmental stage, 6) More than half of the parents were atheists irrespective of the developmental stage. 7) The higher the developmental stage(from stage 2 to stage 6 ), the wider the distribution of children′s ages. 8) More than half of the families were of middle or lower socio-economic level. 2. Problems in specific areas of nursing need by family developmental stage, the intensity of nursing need and the problem solving ability of the family : 1) As a whole, many problems, irrespective of the developmental stage, occurred in tile areas of Housing and Sanitation, Eating Patterns, Housekeeping, Preventive Measures and Dental care. Problems occurring ill particular stages included the following ; stage 1 : Prevention of Accident stage 2 : Preventive Vaccination, Family Planning. stage 3 : Preventive Vaccination, Maternal Health, Family Planning, Health of Infant and Preschooler. stage 4, 5 : Preventive Vaccination, Family Planning, Health of School Children. stage 6 : Preventive Vaccination, Health of School Children. 2) The intensity of the nursing need in the area of Acute and Chronic Diseases was generally of moderate degree or above irrespective of the developmental stages except for stage 1. Other areas of need listed as moderate or above were found in the following stages: stage 1 : Maternal Health stage 3 . Horsing and Sanitation, Prevention of Accident. stage 4 . Housing and Sanitation. stage 5 : Housing and Sanitation, Diagnostic and Medical Care. stage 6 : Diagnostic and Medical care stage 7 : Diagnostic and Medical Care, Housekeeping. stage 8 : Housing and Sanitation, Prevention of Accident, Diagnostic and Medical Care, Dental Care, Eating Patterns, Housekeeping. 3) Areas of need with moderate problem solving ability or less were as follows : stage 1 : Diagnostic and Medical Care, Maternal Health. stage 2 : Prevention of Accident, Acute and Chronic Disease, Dental Care. stage 3 : Housing and Sanitation, Acute and Chronic Disease, Diagnostic and Medical Care, Preventive Measure, Dental Care, Maternal Health, Health of Infant and preschooler, Eating Patterns. stage 4 : Housing and Sanitation, Prevention of Accident, Diagnostic and Medical Care, Preventive Measure, Dental Care, Maternal Health, Health of New Born, Health of Infant and Preschooler, Health of school Children, Eating Patterns, Housekeeping. stage 5 . Housing and Sanitation, Prevention of Accident, Acute and Chronic Disease, Diagnostic and Medical Care, Preventive Measure, Dental Care, Preventive Vaccination, Maternal Health, Eating Patterns. stage 7, 8 : Housing and Sanitation, Prevention of Accident, Acute and Chronic Disease, Diagnostic and Medical Care, Preventive Measures, Dental Care, Preventive Vaccination, Eating Patterns , Housekeeping. Problem occurrence, the degree of nursing need and the degree of problem solving ability 1 nursing need areas for the family as a whole were as follows : 1) The higher the stages(except stage 1 ), the lower the rate of problem occurrence. 2) The higher the stage becomes, the lower the intensity of the nursing need becomes. 3) The higher the stages (except stages 7 and 8), the higher. the problem solving ability. Conclusions ; 1) When the nursing care plan for the family is drawn up, depending upon the stage of family development, higher priority should be give to nursing need areas ① at which problems were shown to occur ② where the nursing need is shown to be above moderate degree and ③ where the problem solving ability was shown to be of moderate degree. 2) The priority of the nursing service should be Placed ① not on those families in the high developmental stage but on those families in the low developmental stage ② and on those areas of need shown in stages 7 and 8 where the degree nursing need was high and the ability to cope low.

• 대한치과기공학회지
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• 제32권4호
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• pp.417-433
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• 2010

Purpose: This study evaluated the manpower planning of dental technicians. Methods: Methods : Survey was conducted regarding subject's general characteristics, characteristics of dental technician's occupational view and working conditions, and reason to enter into branches of the public health enter. The survey sample consisted of 323 dental technicians (221 male/ 102 female). Survey was conducted for one month from August 1 to September 1 in 2010. Following results were obtained. Results: 1. Regarding general characteristics of the subjects, there was a slight male predilection with 68.4%. Subjects in their 40s occupied the highest proportion of 32.2%. Majority of subjects worked in the big cities (71.5%). Favored working places were dental laboratory (57.6%) and dental hospital or dental clinic (19.5%). Although no position is available in the public sector such as public health center or health care civil servant, 9.3% preferred working in the public health center. Public sector is more favored than 2-year technical colleges or dental supply and equipment companies. In respect to education, 57% of the subjects graduated college. 67.8% were married. Subjects who specialize in the porcelain or all-ceramic were 57.9%. With regard to current position, head of the dental laboratory was most common. 2. Following occupation characteristics were found. Economic reason took the highest proportion when deciding their occupation (39.9%) followed by gaining social experience (36.5%). Majority of the subjects (76.5%) wanted to work as dental technicians until their retirement. 71.5% pursuit to become a manager of the dental laboratory. 76.1% agreed on opening a dental technician position in the public health center. Regarding an authority to lead developing the dental technician position in the public sector, majority of the subject chose ministry of health and welfare (35.6%) and Korean dental technologist association (34.7%). Employment (average, 30%) and turnover rate (average, 36.5%) of dental technology college graduates ranged from 40% to 60%. Most important factors for the employment were practical experience (41.2%) and competency (34.4%). With regard to job satisfaction, so-so as 46.7% and satisfactory was 42.7% 3. In respect to the reason for opening a position in the public health center, 'It is needed to continue denture rogram for elderly patients' obtained the highest score (4.14 point). 'Institutional devices are required to open a position for dental technicians as a public healthcare provider' received high score (4.11 point). 4. Concerning the working conditions, 'professional knowledge is required' received the highest score (4.23) followed by 'too short maternity and parental leave' (4.21). 5. Relationship between general characteristics of the subjects and favor of working in the public health center was investigated. Significant differences were found according to the current and favored working area, favored occupation, education level, marital status, and specialty. Working in the public health center was favored by following subjects: working in mid- or small-sized cities (4.16 point, p<0.05); PhD degree-holder (4.59 point, p<0.01). 6. Among general characteristics of the subjects, significant difference of working conditions was found in the following factors: gender; working areas; favored working areas; favored working positions, and education level. Majority of subjects favored working in big cities and currently work in big cities although satisfaction was comparatively low (3.75 score). 7. Future plan to work in public health center was evaluated according to occupational characteristics. Subject's intention to work in the public healthcare center was significantly affected by opening of dental technician position, leading authority, average turnover rate, and factors affecting employment. Working in the public health care center was favored by the following subjects: Dental technicians who actively supported opening of the dental technician position (4.34 point, p<0.001); subjects who thought the Korean dental technologist association is responsible for the opening of positions in the public sector (4.26 point, p<0.001); and subjects who thought that attitude and character are important for the employment (p<0.001). 8. Concerning difference of working conditions according to the occupational characteristics, significant difference was demonstrated by factors such as a reason to choose to be a dental technician, work plan, pursuing position, responsible authority, average employment rate, and job satisfaction. High standard of working conditions was required in subjects who selected to be a dental technician for the leisure time after work (s.05 point, p<0.01), who planted to work until their marriage (4.25 point, p<0.001), and who pursuit to be a manager (3.98, p<0.05). 9. In respect to influence of general characteristics on the advancement to public health centers, the coefficient of determination (R2) was 0.068 and age affected the working condition with significant difference according to the pvalue. 10. Regarding influence of general characteristics on the advancement to public health centers, the coefficient of determination (R2) was 0.335 and work plan, opening of dental technician position in the public sector, and responsible authority had significant influence over the subject's intention to work in the public health center according to the p-value. 11. With regard to the influence of general characteristics on the advancement to public health centers, the coefficient of determination (R2) was 0.091 and reason to choose to be a dental technician, work plan, and responsible authority significantly affected subject's working conditions. Conclusion: Korean society is becoming a super-aged society according to several statistics. As aged population is rapidly increasing, national health insurance plans to cover denture for senior citizen over 75 years old from 2012. Therefore, dental technicians are urgently needed in the public health centers all over the nation. Many subjects in this study planed to work until their retirement and recognized dental technician's expertise. Ministry of health and welfare and Korean dental technologist association should co-operate each other to prepare foundation and institutional devices for dental technicians to advance into the public health center. This will improve oral health of the population. This study showed urgency of medical facilities and services which meets increasing number of aged population and welfare of the population.