• The Korean Journal of Ecology
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• v.21 no.2
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• pp.125-131
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• 1998

Histological damage and growth inhibition of Pinus densiflora were analysed in different areas around the Metropolitan area of Seoul urban (heavily polluted), suburban (lightly polluted), and rural(unpolluted) areas. Soil properties of each area were also investigated. Contact angles of water droplet on needle leaves growing in polluted areas were lower than that in unpolluted area. Transpiration rates of needle leaves growing in polluted areas were more rapid than that in unpolluted area. These results represented that needle leaves growing in polluted areas were more susceptible to water deficit than that growing in unpolluted area was. Growths of annual ring of Pinus densiflora growing in polluted areas were lower than that in unpolluted area. On the other hand, soil pH in polluted areas was lower than that in unpolluted area. That is, the former was more acidified than that the latter was. Ca and Mg contents in polluted areas were lower than that in unpolluted area, while Al contents in polluted areas were higher than that in unpolluted area. These soil properties revealed that the effects of acid precipitates in urban and suburban areas were severer than that in rural area.

• Proceedings of the PSK Conference
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• 2003.04a
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• pp.289.2-289.2
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• 2003

The aim of this work was to develop an reverse-phase method for the analysis lysozyme contents. This method was sensitive and reproducible. The experimental samples were 8 kinds of capsules and one tablet. collected in domestic area. The results were summarized as follows. (omitted)

• Proceedings of the Korea Concrete Institute Conference
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• 1999.10a
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• pp.631-634
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• 1999

A series of in-situ inspection and measurements have been conducted to estimate rebar corrosion incidence of freeway concrete bridges in Seoul metropolitan area. The results of this study have been analysed to identify the extent of chloride concentration and incidence of steel corrosion in various ages and in the different members of the structures. About 34% of the freeway structures had a value lower than - 350mV(vs CSE), so it could conclude that the excessive chloride concentration was a major cause of rebar corrosion.

• Journal of environmental and Sanitary engineering
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• v.5 no.2
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• pp.15-21
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• 1990

Current analyses of tap water in Seoul metropolitan area prove the water is still safe, despite the Pollution of raw water source. However, it also significantly suggests that a feasibility study of apply, additional advanced technology to existing water treatment processes is needed in order to cope with future pollution. Also, the monitoring of water quality within private, multi-household buildings is important as the monitoring of public water distribution system.

• Proceedings of the KSR Conference
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• 2001.05a
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• pp.36-43
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• 2001

Although the transferring is one of the most important factors in urban railways, there is very little analytic research in the transfer-related field. This paper analyses the transfer rate of urban railways in the Seoul Metropolitan Area and the actual passenger boardings and alightings at transfer stations using the AFC(Automatic Fare Collector) O/D data collected doling Sep. 2000. According to the results of this study the transfer rate is 0.657, which is calculated from the transfer hoardings/initial boardings. And the actual ridership of Subway Line 2 and Line 5 are different from the data which was provided by the AFC.

• Korean Journal of Veterinary Service
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• v.36 no.3
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• pp.223-226
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• 2013

To evaluate the potential risk associated with zoonotic ascarid eggs in educational facilities and public playground in Seoul city, the sand samples collected from April to December in 2011 were examined with a fecal flotation method. Of 5,066 sand samples from 1,367 playgrounds tested, 12 sands from 12 places (0.88%) had ascarid eggs. Sand samples in educational facilities were more contaminated (10/870, 1.15%) with the parasite eggs than those of public playground area (2/497, 0.4%). Fisher's exact tests were used to make pairwise comparisons between which locations were more or less similar with regard to levels of contamination. We didn't find significantly different from one another. Most ascarid eggs detected were found in the Spring. Through this study, we hope to raise awareness of contamination of playgrounds by potentially infectious ascarid ova.

• KSCE Journal of Civil and Environmental Engineering Research
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• v.33 no.6
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• pp.2503-2508
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• 2013

Single-person households in the Seoul Metropolitan Area have increased sharply during recent 20-30 years. Despite of decreasing in the total population, the number of single-person household is predicted to increase continuously. However, the effect of single-person household growth on the domestic transport sector has not been studied concretely. In this study, the differences on trip generation characteristics by household size and attributes were figured out by analyzing Seoul Metropolitan Area Household Travel Behavior Survey (SMA-HTBS). Firstly, trip generation rates (trips/day/person) were produced by household attribute, household member attribute and trip attribute based on SMA-HTBS. Secondly, trip generation rate of single-person household and that of multi-person (2 or more) household were compared by significance test. It was found that trips generation characteristics of single-person household is quite different from those of multi-person household by housing type, residential type, living area, and transport mode. The result of this paper is expected to contribute developing more sophisticated trip generation model and transport policy reflecting trip generation characteristics of single-person household.

• Journal of Korean Society of Transportation
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• v.22 no.3 s.74
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• pp.49-58
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• 2004

The first and perhaps the most critical and perhaps the most important step in the process of predicting future traffic volume in a region (Zone) is to estimate the number of trips generated in from each traffic analysis zone. Most trip generation models for urban transportation planning, and highway in Korea are regression models. In Korea the category analysis has not been tried for last decades since the proper data such as the household travel behavior data have not been collected. Recently, the comprehensive household travel behavior survey such as ${\ulcorner}$1996 The Household Travel Behavior Survey${\lrcorner}$, ${\ulcorner}$2002 The Household Travel Behavior Survey${\lrcorner}$ has been done. In this paper, the cross-classification tables of Seoul Metropolitan Area including the City of Seoul and Kyonggi Province are estimated by the category analysis. The tables are compared with regression models and ${\ulcorner}$2002 The Household Travel Behavior Survey${\lrcorner}$ data in terms of predictive capabilities in Seoul Metropolitan Area. Improvement strategies for trip generation forecast in Seoul Metropolitan Area are proposed.

• Proceedings of the KSR Conference
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• 2006.11b
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• pp.968-973
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• 2006

Although Gyeonggi-do is the core area which has a quarter of the population of Korea, it has poor railway network and then it have got serious traffic problem. So in this paper, it is introduced the improving methods of railways on Gyeonggi-do. In first, it was showed a fast and effective railway route implementation according to the characteristics with the similar population but the 17 times bigger area than that of Seoul. And it was explained multipurpose using method of the railways of Gyeonggi-do whit subway, commuter, express and high speed train etc. Finally unlike Seoul subway focusing on approachability, it was proposed 'express train paradigm' focusing on implementing the high movability which railways of Gyeonggi-do must have. So with 'Bundang-line' metropolitan railway, the case study in applying to southern metropolitan area with those suggestion was showed.

• Journal of Korean Society for Atmospheric Environment
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• v.23 no.3
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• pp.286-296
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• 2007

Ozone creation potentials suited for Seoul metropolitan area was derived by utilizing the PAMS monitoring data and the source inventory. A simple box model with variable height was developed to calculate the incremental reactivity for all the ozone episode days in the year 2003 and 2004. RIR (Relative Incremental Reactivity) was introduced as a measure of contribution to ozone generation in the Seoul metropolitan area. RIR was defined as a function of ratio of VOC to $NO_x$ and therefore it addresses both VOC and $NO_x$ limited regime. For the days that more than 10 monitoring stations out of 27 monitoring station in Seoul recorded the daily maximum ozone concentrations higher than 70 ppb, toluene had the highest RIR value in all the type II and type III PAMS site and m/p-xylene followed with the second highest RIR value. Analyses using MIR (Maximum Incremental Reactivity) and POCP (Photochemical Ozone Creation Potential) instead of RIR also yields dominance of toluene and m/p-xylene in generating ozone concentrations to demonstrate the validity of RIR.