• Journal of Environmental Science International
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• v.8 no.3
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• pp.319-323
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• 1999

This study was designed to evaluate the exposure to benzene by residents in neighborhoods near a major roadways, by persons waiting buses, and by drivers and service station attendants while refueling. It was confirmed that the outdoor air benzene concentrations near the major roadways were higher than those further away from the sources. However, neither the indoor air nor breath concentrations were different for two specified residential areas. Smoking was confirmed as an important factor for the indoor air benzene levels. Persons waiting buses, drivers and service station attendants were exposed to elevated benzene levels compared to even the residents in neighborhoods near a major roadways. The mean benzene concentration at bus stop was 2.7 to 6.9 times higher than the mean ambient air concentration. The mean benzene concentrations in the breathing zone of drivers and service station attendants were 95 to 160 and 120 to 202 times higher than the mean ambient air concentrations, respectively.

• Journal of the Korean housing association
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• v.14 no.3
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• pp.137-146
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• 2003

The Primary Purpose of this study is to evaluate transportation conditions (including parking space shortage problem) of the old single house district and to derive some policy implications for living environment improvement policy. For these purposes, data were collected from field survey and questionaire survey. The main findings are follows. Residents are discontent about building structure, old house, high risk of traffic accident in the housing district and parking space shortage. The living environment of the old single house district is further degraded by mix of commercial and business functions in the residential area. Based on these findings, we suggest that the introduction of resident-first parking zones, restriction of use of facilities with more detail division of use than current zoning system for improvement of living environment.

• Magazine of the Korean Society of Agricultural Engineers
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• v.44 no.3
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• pp.157-169
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• 2002

This study was performed to appraise multi-functional roles of agricultural lands in urban areas. The roles of agricultural lands as a part of urban environment were investigated to develop and establish an effective urban development planning with GIS-based analysis. Fifteen administrative districts at Chuncheon, Korea were selected to examine the roles of agricultural hands in these districts as educational, disaster-preventing, open-space, and recreational aspects. GIS was utilized to identify the distribution of agricultural lands and their accessibility to residential areas, school zone, public facilities, and major roads. The results obtained in this study can be efficiently used to guide decision makers to develop environmental-friendly urban planning at initial stage.

• International Journal of High-Rise Buildings
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• v.5 no.4
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• pp.327-338
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• 2016

This technical paper presents a detailed review of the stack effect phenomenon and of the associated implications pertaining to the design and construction of high-rise buildings in regions of extreme climatic conditions. The present review is focused on both the classical 'chimney' effect as well as on the reverse stack effect, which are respectively related to cold and hot climates. For the purposed of the work here presented, the ASHRAE (2013) design conditions of Astana (Kazakhstan) and Riyadh (Kingdom of Saudi Arabia) were selected. A 230 m tall residential building of rectangular floor plan was numerically modelled in the context of the climatic conditions of the two abovementioned cities and a number of sensitivity analyses were performed, covering parametric changes of: temperature, façade air tightness, site wind speeds and wind directions.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Safety
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• v.12 no.4
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• pp.70-78
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• 1997

The objective of this research is to study on the upper and lower layer temperature, interface height and pressure in case of carpet, chair, trashcan and wardrobe fires in a residential room by performing the theoretical and experimental studies. The theoretical results of the upper and lower layer temperature, the interface height and the pressure were qualitatively well coincided with the experimental results. The uniformly distributed fire in case of carpet showed that the ignition and the initial growth period were relatively short while the fully developed period was considerably long. The concentrated fires such as the wardrobe showed that the ignitions and the initial growth periods were relatively long. The interface heights were around 1m as the steady state. However, at the time of the maximum temperature, the interface height was lowered to 0.5m from the floor. The pressure variation in the fire room ranged between 0.1mmAq and 0.4mmAq, and the temperature reached the highest while the pressure was maximum.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society for Noise and Vibration Engineering Conference
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• 1997.04a
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• pp.388-393
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• 1997

As the aircraft noise become the serious matter nowadays, registrations controlling the noise emission from aircraft are established to set up noise protection areas such as residential buildings and schools. Several methods are used to assess the noise impact of an airport on its surroundings. WECPNL is used as the aircraft legislation noise index in Korea and in Japan. In this paper, experiments were made to assess the total noise impact of Kwangju airport area by using WECPNL. Also restrictions related to buildings in this area and grants were reviewed to improve building attention in the inner zone.

• Proceedings of the KSR Conference
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• 2006.11b
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• pp.1178-1183
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• 2006

This paper describes the plans of considering the environmental influences in the preliminary feasibility investigation of railroad work. Because the cost-benefit analysis method about the environmental costs by air pollution and traffic noise is mainly applied in preliminary feasibility investigation, not only the verification in the calculation method of these environmental costs but also the consideration in the environmental costs of the topographical damage and the ecosystem extinction by railroad work is needed. The environment-friendly plans in choosing the locations of the railroad route and station are also suggested, and they include (1) consideration of environment protection area, residential zone, and region with scenic beauty, (2) application of the existing railroad route and station, and (3) railroad route parallel to another traffic facility.

• Ecology and Resilient Infrastructure
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• v.5 no.4
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• pp.219-228
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• 2018

This study measured the Physiological Equivalent Temperature (PET) of the hottest day time in a day, in order to verify the characteristics of human thermal comfort in case of heat wave during summer time in each region, by subdividing the urban areas in accordance with the climatic characteristics with the use of Local Climate Zone (LCZ) as a method of classifying the type of urban climate and the land cover map, targeting the Homaesil residential development district in Suwon. In the results of measurement, the forest and paddy field showed the moderate heat stress while the urban park showed the strong heat stress. Other developed areas showed the extreme heat stress. Such results show the possibility of institutional utilization for the improvement of human thermal comfort through the verification of climatic characteristics and differences in each type of urban areas, and the efficient placement of green infrastructure and the planning of land use to cope with the heat wave even in the planning stage for the establishment of urban planning.

• The Korean Journal of Ecology
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• v.24 no.6
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• pp.385-394
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• 2001

An attempt to clarify the landscape structure of urban areas was carried out in the greenbelt around Seoul, Korea's metropolis. By means of aerial photographs and a field survey, a vegetation map including land-use pattern was made. Landscape structure was described by analyzing this vegetation map and the results of phytosociological survey. Landscape element types identified were (1) secondary forest, (2) plantation, (3) cultivated field, (4) urbanized area, (5) graveyard, and (6) bare rock. Vegetation units, resulting from the phytosociological analysis, included Quercus mongolica, Q. variabilis, Q. acutissima, Pinus densiflora, Q. aliena, and Alnus japonica communities. Plantations were composed of Robinia pseudoacacia, Populus tomentiglandulosa, P. rigida, Larix leptolepis, P. koraiensis, and Castanea crenata stands. Patches near to human settlements in the lower zones of the mountains were fragmented and small but they became larger towards the higher mountain zones. On the other hand, the number of patches was fewer and their size was larger in Mt. Cheonggye more distant from the principal residential area, larger in size, and higher in elevation compared with the other 2 mountains, Mt. Daemo and Mt. Acha. Floristic composition of Mongolian oak(Q. mongolica) stand distributing in the upper part of each mountain, in which artificial interference is rare, showed a difference among those study areas different in parent rock and disturbance regime. But that of black locust(R. pseudoacacia) stand located in lowland of mountainous area, in which artificial interference is frequent was similar to each other. As the results of analyses on the frequency distribution of diameter classes of major species, dominant landscape elements, Mongolian oak forest showed different responses depending on artificial interference as continuous maintenance and retrogressive succession in the sites far from and near to the residential areas, respectively. On the other hand, black locust stands showed a probability to be restore to the native oak forest through progressive succession.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Surveying, Geodesy, Photogrammetry and Cartography
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• v.31 no.2
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• pp.151-157
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• 2013

The law for indicating the address based on the street name has taken effect in 1997. The address based on land-lot number will be changed to the address based on the street name giving odd numbers to the buildings situated on the left side and even numbers to the buildings situated on the right side per street. Searching locations by street name addresses is possible for residential areas, on the other hand, the system of finding locations is insufficient for farmlands, mountains and others, so it is unable to cope with crimes and emergency rescue. In order to make up for the weak points of street name address, the national point number, grid reference system was introduced for finding location of non-residential areas. Therefore, the purpose of this paper is to help the introduction the national point number. In this paper, we proposed a territory-oriented control point and grid range for the national point number. Numbering scheme of grid zone shall be alphanumeric, a two-letter pair Hangul and the grid coordinates in terms of Easting and Northing. We also proposed the notice area for the national point number and location of signs, application about the public and private sector.