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A Study on the Food Purchasing Behavior Characteristics of Rural Housewives in Bibong-myeon, Hwaseong (화성시 비봉면 주부들의 식료품 구매 행태에 관한 연구)

  • Kim, Young;Kim, Eunkyung;Choe, Jeongsook;Lee, Jinyoung;Kang, Minsook
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Food Culture
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    • v.28 no.6
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    • pp.553-561
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    • 2013
  • This study examined the food purchasing behavior of rural housewives in Bibong-myeon, Hwaseong. The survey targeted grocery shopping for the home, in particular by housewives. The type of grocery store frequented, age, socioeconomic factors, and ease of purchase were compared with interests in health foods. One super supermarket (SSM), three supermarkets (SM), and four convenience stores were examined in the research area, whereas a large-scale discount store and grocery stores were also examined outside the research area. The grocery store visiting rate was 61.5% in the research area and 38.5% in the other area. The SSM (62.7%) and SM (29.9%) in the research area and LDS (57.1%) and SSM (16.7%) in the other area were most frequently visited. Major purchasing products greatly differed according to the grocery store type. Major foods purchased in the SSM were grain, meat, and fish. Major foods purchased in the LDS and SM were processed products and vegetables, respectively. The LDS visiting frequency was 41.7% for 2-3 times per month and 41.7% for <1 time per month. The means of transport were mostly by private car (87.5%), whereas the SSM was visited 1-2 times per week 53.1% of the time by foot. In addition, various grocery stores are absent in rural areas and it is therefore important to find other methods to assess the food environment of rural areas. In future research, it will be necessary to design various ways to perform food environment research.

POTENTIAL APPLICATION TOPICS OF KOMPSAT-3 IMAGE IN THE FIELD OF PRECISION AGRICULTURE MODEL

  • Kim, Seong-Joon;Lee, Mi-Seon;Kim, Sang-Ho;Park, Geun-Ae
    • Proceedings of the KSRS Conference
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    • v.1
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    • pp.432-435
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    • 2006
  • Potential application topics of KOMPSAT-3 image in the field of precision agriculture are suggested. The topics can be categorized as fundamental and applied ones that have contents of static and dynamic characteristics respectively. As fundamental topics, precision information of agriculture that is related to farmland and its crop attributes, precision information of rural infrastructure that is related to rural village and its facilities, precision information of stream environment that is related to rural water resources and its facilities, and precision information of eco-environment that is especially related to riparian ecology and environmental status are included. As applied topics, precision rural water resources that has thematic contents of continuous and event-based runoff, spatial and temporal soil moisture and evapotranspiration, precision agricultural watershed environment that has the contents of spatial and temporal soil loss, sediment and pollutants transport, and precision temporal and spatial crop growth that has the contents of temporal crop texture, spectral reflectance, leaf area index, spatial crop protein information.

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Analysis of the Implication of Accessibility to Community Facilities for Land Price in Rural Areas using a Hedonic Land Price Model (헤도닉모형을 이용한 농촌지역 생활편익시설의 접근성이 지가에 미치는 영향 분석)

  • Kim, Solhee;Kim, Taegon;Suh, Kyo
    • Journal of Korean Society of Rural Planning
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    • v.22 no.1
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    • pp.93-100
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    • 2016
  • Land price can be affected by convenience or psychological repulsion like PIMFY (Please In My Front Yard) or NIMBY (Not In My Back Yard) for various facilities. Services related to public establishment, welfare, medical attention, and amenities in rural areas are comparatively poorer than those in urban areas. The purpose of this study is to estimate the implications of the accessibility to community facilities in rural areas for land prices using a hedonic price model. The accessibility to facilities is estimated by real road distances and the land prices are applied for four types of land usages: field, rice paddy, building lots, and village halls. Community facilities are classified from public and community services view: education, safety, culture, transport, environment, health care, and finance. The results show that the accessibility to health care and transport can positively affect land prices and the accessibility to environment (waste facilities and junkyard) and unpleasant services (funeral hall and charnel house) can negatively affect land prices. Especially, the accessibility to hospital is the most positive influential factor for all types of land usages.

Probability Distribution of BOD EMC from Paddy Fields (논 유출수 BOD의 유량가중평균농도(EMC) 확률분포)

  • Jin, So-Hyun;Jung, Jae-Woon;Yoon, Kwang-Sik;Choi, Woo-Jung;Choi, Dong-Ho;Kim, Sang-Don;Kang, Jae-Hong;Choi, Yu-Jin
    • Journal of Environmental Science International
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    • v.19 no.9
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    • pp.1153-1159
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    • 2010
  • Identification of probability distribution for water quality constituents from specific land use is important to achieve successful implementation of TMDL program. In this 3-year study, distribution of discharge and BOD(Biological Oxygen Demand) concentration from paddy rice fields were monitored. Four probability distributions, normal, log-normal, Gamma and Weibull were fitted and the goodness-of-fit was assessed using probability plots and Kolmogorov-Smirnov test. $EMC_s$ of BOD in runoff from paddy field ranged 0.37 to $7.99\;mgL^{-1}$, and all four probability distributions were acceptable. But the normal distribution would be preferred for BOD from paddy fields considering nature of straight forward application.

Evaluation of Accessibility to Elementary and Secondary Educational Facilities on Village Level in Rural Areas (농촌지역 초·중등 교육시설에 대한 마을단위 접근성 평가)

  • Kim, Solhee;Kim, Taegon;Suh, Kyo
    • Journal of Korean Society of Rural Planning
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    • v.23 no.3
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    • pp.121-131
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    • 2017
  • Although the educational facility are an important considerations on a social equity standpoint, educational environment in rural areas has been continuously deteriorated by numerous social problems such as decreasing birth rate and increasing of local school closing. The purpose of this study is to evaluate the accessibility of educational environment in rural areas on village level. First, we evaluate physical accessibility based on legally defined commuting distance. Second, the implication of village population of potential accessibility is analyzed. Lastly, the facility centrality index of each village is estimated for assessing the relations of educational accessibility. The main results of this study are as follows; (1) The accessibility of most villages in Pyeongchang-gun is vulnerable that 81.10% for elementary school, 73.17% for middle school, and 82.32% for high school, respectively; (2) The average commuting distance per student considering estimated number of students for each educational facilities indicated 2.75km for elementary school, 4.37km for middle school, and 5.79km for high school; (3) the facility centrality index is highly correlated to educational facilities but not to village population.

Environmental Improvement Develope by Spatial Utilization Pattern of Conventional Market in Small Town -Focused on Geum-wang Market in Chung-buk Province- (소도읍 재래시장의 공간이용유형에 의한 환경개선 - 충북 음성군 금왕재래시장을 중심으로 -)

  • Han, Sang-Ho
    • Journal of the Korean Institute of Rural Architecture
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    • v.10 no.2
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    • pp.27-36
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    • 2008
  • This study is progressing or suggests effective space planning for rural village area conventional markets that is planning business market modernization process. Rural village area conventional markets of small scale are inputting a lot of efforts and financial resources for activation. Also, I wish to quote activation plan for rural village area conventional markets that face in stagnation. Studied spatial form and conventional market activation factors by space use special quality of rural village area conventional markets for architectural planning plan presentation. Investigated spatial change for several years that appear in Geum-wang conventional market for this. As a result, could deduce plans of space improvement plan for conventional market space positively. Also, through this study, suggest activation plan of conventional market that display similar space type including Geum-wang conventional market. Therefore, environment improvement of conventional market's type and special quality based on space activation elements and need space environment improvement plan the architecture plan in early planning phase of business.

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An Analysis on the Actual State of the Settlement and the Community of people returning to rural areas - Focused in Chungnam Province - (농촌지역 귀농·귀촌인 정주현황 및 커뮤니티 실태 분석 - 충청남도를 중심으로 -)

  • Cho, Young-Jae;Cho, Eun-Jung
    • Journal of Korean Society of Rural Planning
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    • v.19 no.4
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    • pp.191-202
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    • 2013
  • This study aims at providing the basic information required for policies on return to countryside for farming or else, through analysing the actual state of settlement and the community of people returning to rural areas. The comparative analysis of people returning toward general village and sub-urban residential complex in rural has been done to figure out the settlement environment. And the status analysis targeting the people returning to rural areas and original residents who live in general village have been done to figure out the actual state of the community. As a result, people returning toward sub-urban residential complex in rural moved for something else, while people returning toward general village in rural moved with the purpose of farming. Like this, the aims of moving into rural areas show difference. There is little conflict between people returning to rural areas and original residents, but some people have an intention to move the other place due to the conflict with original residents. So the community revitalization is needed for the active responses and suitable adaptation of them. On the basis of this study, policy tasks for return to countryside for farming or else were suggested as follows; 1) It is necessary to formulate each policy on return for farming and something else to rural areas discriminatively. 2) The economic support for a stable settlement of people returning to rural areas and the programs activating community with original residents are required. The discussion about the new community formation is needed to respond to the increase of people returning to rural areas.

Management Plan for Rural Groundwater Resources in the Era of Post COVID-19 (포스트 코로나 시대 농어촌지하수 관리 방안)

  • Lee, Byung Sun;Seo, Sangjin;Lee, Gyusang;Yoon, Seok-Hwan;Song, Sung-Ho
    • Journal of Soil and Groundwater Environment
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    • v.27 no.4
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    • pp.1-9
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    • 2022
  • This study was conducted to supplement new-normal strategies on management plans of rural groundwater resources in the era of Post COVID-19. Global outbreak of COVID-19 has damaged across all areas including public policy, economics, industrial services, and others without exception, which has resulted in establishing new-normal strategies in order to restore balance and functions as for these areas. The new-normal ones were represented as enhancing preventative management on infectious diseases, expanding non face-to-face services, enhancing protective trades and food securities, and preparing growth policies on public services using the 4th industrial revolution techniques. In this study, G-WASH_AD (Groundwater supply, sanitation, and hygiene with attraction and digitization) was suggested to be new-normal strategies on rural groundwater resources. The G-WASH_AD was consisted of three detailed action plans: a preventative plan on waterborne-diseases of groundwater (PP), a groundwater-tourism plan with rural heritage (GP), and an application plan of the 4th industrial revolution techniques to groundwater facilities and its data (P4). The PP can contribute to protect human health from waterborne-diseases and minimize hazardous effects on crop cultivation. The GP accompanied with high-quality groundwater resources is able to strengthen rural tourism, to promote marketing activities on local agricultural products, and to increase household incomes of rural communities. The P4 can reinforce fast, comfortable, and scientific management on groundwater facilities and its data, creating a virtuous cycle between innovative management on groundwater and growth of technology related to it. Results of the G-WASH_AD strategies can encourage a green growth engine in field of rural groundwater management keeping up with Post COVID-19.

Relevant Research on Effective Reuse Scheme of China's Rural Idle Schools - Taking Perfecting Rural Public Facilities as an Example - (중국 농촌폐교 재활용방안에 관한 기초연구 -농촌공공시설을 중심으로-)

  • Mou, Biao;Lee, Jong-Kuk
    • The Journal of Sustainable Design and Educational Environment Research
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    • v.13 no.2
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    • pp.35-43
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    • 2014
  • Under the influence of birth control and rapid urbanization, China's rural school-age population is on a year-by-year decrease, which has led approximately 300 thousand middle and primary schools to idleness ever since 2000. A majority of these idle schools are located in rural areas, almost one half remaining idle due to vagueness in property right. The disposed schools are less efficient for not being combined with the real situation of rural areas. Based on the opportunity of coordinative development of urban-rural areas, this paper analyzes the situationsin terms of the development of public service facilities and the gap between rural and urban areas over the recent years. Then the effective and sustainable reuse scheme to dispose of the idle schools and reshape them into the facilities for the elders, cultural facilities and medical facilities is proposed from the perspectives of perfecting rural public service facilities and guaranteeing citizens' equal share of public service, which both maintains the public nature of the idle schools, reconciles the fuzzy property right, and boosts efficiency of reuse, saves resources, and reduces investment for perfecting rural public facilities.

Determinants of Marital Satisfaction among Male and Female Rural Migrants: Migrant Characteristics and Family Values (남녀 귀농인 결혼만족도 결정요인 연구: 귀농특성, 가족주의 가치관을 중심으로)

  • Kim, Beagsu;Lee, Jeonghwa
    • The Korean Journal of Community Living Science
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    • v.26 no.3
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    • pp.471-488
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    • 2015
  • This study compares marital satisfaction between male and female rural migrants and explores the effects of characteristics of rural migrants and family values on marital satisfaction. Data were collected using a structured questionnaire. The survey included 483 migrants living in rural communities of North Jeolla Province and South Jeolla Province. Data were analyzed using descriptive statistics, cross tables, the t-test, correlations, and a hierarchical regression analysis using SPSS 21.0. According to the results, marital satisfaction was higher in men than in women. In addition, the effects of characteristics of rural migrants and family values on marital satisfaction were greater in men than in women. The major determinant of marital satisfaction in men was economical preparation, whereas that in women was family values. Economical preparation for rural living was more important for men, and the sufficient understanding and internalization of rural living was more important for women. In particular, family values represented the main variable between men and women in terms of marital satisfaction. These results suggest that family relationships may be the most important factor influencing rural migrants' marital satisfaction and that spousal relationships may be the core factor influencing family relationships.