• Journal of Korean Society for Atmospheric Environment
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• v.17 no.3
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• pp.289-297
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• 2001

From March 1998 to February 1999, we observed visibility and weather change in Dae Chung Bong and Kwon Keum Sung three times a day; at 10 Am, 1 PM and 4 PM. During research period (357 days for Kwon Keum Sung, 351 days for Dae Chung Bong), clear days were 185 days(52%) in Kwon Keum Sung and 149 days (43%) in Dae Chung Bong. Months that had many clear days in a year were December and January in both area. The rate of clear day to cloudy day in Sokcho downtown and Dae Chung Bong was 5 to 5, 4 to 6, respectively. The number of cloudy day in a year in Dae Chung Bong was 34days more than in Sokcho downtown. The visual distance in Kwon Keum Sung was 12.2km on the clear day, and 3.3km on the cloudy day. The yearly average was 7.9km. And we can see 8.9km farther on the clear day. The visual distance in Dae Chung Bong was 13.3km on the clear day, and 3.1km on the cloudy day. The yearly average was 8.1km. The visibility of clear day was 10.2km longer than that of cloudy day. The percentage to observe East Sea clearly was about 70% between December and January in both areas, and showed the highest visibility during research period. We observed Mt. Keumkang from 3 to 6 times in a month except rainy season. The yearly average visibility was 2%. If you go Mt. Serok except April, when there was yellow duet cloud from China, and rainy season (between the last of June and early of September), you can appreciate the most beautiful Mt. Sorak with Mt. Keumkang.

• The Korean Journal of Quaternary Research
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• v.15 no.1
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• pp.47-52
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• 2001

April∼August precipitation (141 years : A.D. 1858∼1998) of Mt. Sorak region (East-central Korea) was reconstructed using a tree-ring chronology of Pinus densiflora sampled from Beakdam Shelter area. During the reconstructed Periods, dry periods were 1880∼1887, 1893∼1901 and 1922∼1938, and wet one 1906∼1918. In the long-term variation, the late 19th and early 20th century were drier than the late 20th century. Major wet/dry periodicities in April∼August precipitation series reconstructed were 3.16 and 4.14 years, indicating that short-term variation were more prominent than long-term one.

• Korean Journal of Environmental Biology
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• v.23 no.2 s.58
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• pp.141-145
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• 2005

Forest stand structure was surveyed to understand the Korean fir (Abies holophylla) dominant forest ecosystem in Nae-Sorak mountain. Despite limited surveyed area, a diverse forest structure, a characteristic in natural forests, is well presented in the area. According to Leibundgut's (1984) classification of forest structure, stand A, B represents declining stage, stand C regeneration stage, stand D combination of stabilizing and declining stage, and stand E unstable stage of selection.

• Animal Systematics, Evolution and Diversity
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• v.11 no.2
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• pp.265-274
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• 1995

A freshwater chydorid cladoceran, Alona quadrangularis (O.F. $M\ddot{u}ller$, 1785), collected from a streatmlet on Paektam Valley in Mt. Sorak is described.

• Korean Business Review
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• v.19 no.2
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• pp.117-140
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• 2006

The purpose of this study is to activate tourism industry in Sorak area where faces crisis arising from environmental change. To achieve its' purpose, this study investigated operational problem concerning about development of tourism in Sorak area and politic problem concerning about tourism resource in order to devise activation of regional economy through its effective conservation and development. and at same time, compared difference of perception between tourist and worker of tourism empirically in aspect of product, service, public marketing in order to activate regional tourism industry through effective development of tourism resource. Finally, this study also suggested countermeasure suitable for the above stated. As seeing above results, this study contributes to promote tourism in Sorak area by developing tourism resource in vein of localization age which means local area can be center of the world in consideration of globalization age without national boundary. Conclusively, it can be said that segmentation of tourism market based on tourist's interest needs to be accomplished through connection between regional limitation and academic research with making use of advantage of abundant tourism resource in Sorak area. what is more, supplement of attention. to improvement of service quality can cause more positive effect.

• Journal of Environmental Science International
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• v.8 no.4
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• pp.515-523
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• 1999

Nine trace metals (Zn, Fe, Al, Pb, Mn, Cu, Ni, Cr, and Cd) and Se concentrations were determined in organs and tissues(muscle, bone, kidney, liver and skin) of the striped field mice, Apodemus agrarius collected at Daejeo-dong, Pusan city and the Sorak Mt., Kangwon Province. All the trate elements were detected from all the mice examined. As for the metal concentrations in the mice from Daejeo-dong, Zn, Fe, Al, Mn, Ni and Cr were significantly higher than those in Sorak Mt.(p<0.05), suggesting that pesticides including Zn and factory wastes containing several metals might contaminated the environment of Daejeo-dong. As regards the element concentrations in each organ and tissue, Fe, Al, Pb, Mn, Cu, Cr and Cd concentrations were high in liver or kidney; Zn in skin and bone; Ni in bone, skin and kidney; and Se in muscle, liver and skin in all the mice examined. There were significant differences(p<0.05) between juveniles and adults in average concentration of metals(Zn, Fe, Pb, Mn, Ni, and Cd) in every organs and tissues of mice collected at Daejeo-dong. Much higher average levels of metals in juveniles indicate that considerable burdens fo metals might be transferred through the placenta. However, there were no significant differences between males and females, and between young and old adults in average metal concentrations, which suggests that the mice might accumulate the metals during their life time, although they might excrete the metals not only through reproductive activities, such as parturition, lactation and ejaculation of semen, but also through molting, judging from higher accumulating ratios of most metals in skin of adults than of juveniles.

• Korean Journal of Environmental Biology
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• v.25 no.2
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• pp.158-167
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• 2007

A study conducted in NaeSorak Mt. from 1996 to 2006 shows some interesting results indicating general characteristics of natural forests, regeneration and structural patterns on fir stands. Those fir stands could have been confused as climax forests, which is a short-sighted from human-centered view on those stands. A classic theory of succession, which has been frequently applied to analyse the changes in forest ecosystem changes, failed to provide further understanding of fir stands. To comprehend the complicated and diverse process, a concept of ecosystem circulation need be introduced to the theory. This is a main idea of 'patch dynamics' theory developed from 'mosaic cycle' theory.

• The Journal of the Petrological Society of Korea
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• v.5 no.1
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• pp.35-51
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• 1996

The granitic rocks in the vicinity of the Mt. Sorak, the northeastern part of the NE-SW elongated Mesozoic granitic batholith in the Kyeonggi massif, consist of granodiorite, biotite granite, two-mica granite and alkali feldspar granite. Variations In major and most trace elemental abundances show a typical differentiation trend in a granitic magma. Granitic rocks all display a calc-alkaline trend in the AFM diagram. Also, In the ACF diagram discriminating between I- and S-type granitic rocks, granodiorite and most biotite granite in the southeastern area represent I-type and magnetite-series characteristics, while most biotire granite and two-mica granite in the northwestern area exhibit S-type and ilmenite-series ones.According to recent studies of the granitle rocks In the Inje-Hongcheon district. all ihe granitic rocks distributed in the northeastern part of the Kyeonggi massif have been classified as late Triassic to early Jurassic Daebo granite. With reference of the formerly published ages, an age oi $125.6{\pm}4.4$ Ma calculated by the slope in the plot of $^{87}Rb/^{86}Sr-^{87}Sr/^{86}Sr$ for the biotite granite samples from the southeastern area is inferred as an emplacement age for the granitic rocks in the vicinity of the Mt. Sorak. On the basis of elemental variations and Sr isotope compositions, an possible evolutional process for the granitic magmas in this area is suggested. The primary magma of I-type and magnetite-series generated about 125 Ma by partial melting of igneous originated crustal materials, might be emplaced and evolved through fractional crystallization, convection and assimilation of the surrounding Precambrian metasediments to become S-type and ilmenlte-serles in the outer area, and then solidified to granodiorite, biotite granite and two-mica granite.At the latest stage, the evolved hydrothermal solution altered the formerly solidified biotite granite to alkali feldspar granite and probably later local igneous activities affected the alkali feldspar granite again.

• Korean Journal of Plant Resources
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• v.10 no.4
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• pp.275-291
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• 1997

Floristic composition and medicinal plant resources were investigated in six regions, Mt. Sorak, Mt. Jumbong, Mt. Odae, Mt. Hwaak, Mt. Taebaek, and Mt. Bangtae, represent in Kangwon province. This study was conducted from December. 1995 to October, 1997. Vascular plants in investigated regions were composed of 118 families . 529 genera, 1,138 species, 7 subspecies, 223 varieties and 43 fromae, totaling 1,411 taxa. This taxa was correspond to 34.7% of Korean flora, 4,071 taxa (Lee, 1996b),and 73.8% of Kangwon province flora, 1,913 taxa (Kangwondo, 1996), respectively. Among them, medicinal plant resources was composed of 98 families, 238 genera, 337 species, 63. varieties, and 16 formae, totaling 416 taxa (29.5% of investigated 1.411 taxa). Medicinal plant resources in each regions were distributed ranging from 211(31.4%) to 285(33.1%) taxa.

• The Korean Journal of Ecology
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• v.24 no.2
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• pp.111-115
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• 2001

Vegetational changes along elevational and topographical gradients were studied in Mt. Jumbong which is located at the core area of the Mt. Sorak Biosphere Reserve in Kangwon-do Province in central Korea. Two 500 m north-south transects crossing two valleys and a small ridge were laid out, and fifty-one 10 m$\times$10 m permanent quadrats were systematically set up. All trees bigger than 2.5 cm DBH were marked with numbered aluminum tags, and their DBH measured and the species identified. Coverage of plant species in the herb layer were determined in two 2 m $\times$ 2 m subquadrats in each of the permanent quadrats. Thirty-two species of woody plants occurred in the tree layer in the permanent quadrats studied. Quercus mongolica was the dominant species across the study site, and Acer pseudosieboldianum and Carpinus cordata were also important. Quercus mongolica occurred on the ridges and south-facing slopes, and Acer pseudosieboldianum occurred extensively except for valleys. In contrast, Fraxinus mandshurica, Acer mono, Acer triflorum, and Ulmus laciniata were common in valleys. At the herbaceous layer, 112 species were identified. Dominant species were Ainsliaea acerifolia and Sasa borealis on the ridges, Meehania urticifolia on north-facing slopes, and Deutzia glabrata on valleys. Soil environmental factors were compared among the quadrats. pH was lower in the quadrats located on ridges and south-facing slopes, and organic matter was lowest on south-facing slopes. Quadrats located on valleys were generally higher in pH, organic matter, N, P, K, Ca and Mg. DCA ordinations for tree layer and herb layer were carried out in order to identify the dominant environmental factors affecting the distribution of plant species along the environmental gradients. Correlation analysis between ordination axis scores and environmental factors showed that axis one was negatively correlated with elevation and positively correlated with soil organic matter, pH, Ca, Mg, and P, but that axis two was positively correlated with elevation. These results indicate that vegetation responds very sensitively to elevational and topographical gradients although the study area is relatively small with about 100 m in elevational variation.