• 동남아시아연구
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• 제24권2호
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• pp.207-251
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• 2014

This study explores the mobility patterns of Korean Early Study Aborad (ESA, hereafter) students in Singapore through a follow-up longitudinal case study, which was initially conducted about five years before this study. This study takes up transnational migration approach, focusing on family strategies and mobilization, which steered their mobility. Interviews with seven original families as well as 7 families additionally recruited in Singapore in 2012 were collected and analyzed by NVivo 9. In short, this study found that transnational mobility is composed of mobilities at global, regional and local levels. There were four types of mobilities; continuation of stay in Singapore, move from a third county to Singapore, return to Korea, and, what this research calls, fluid mobility. Examining the process of these mobilities shows that we need to consider at least three factors (performance of children's schooling; change of family circumstances; context of reception for both Singapore and Korea) as basic backgrounds. On this basis, the interplay between the context of receptions when aspirations for children's advancement by these transnational families made either facilitate or constrain their mobilities: contexts of Singapore and Korea may play a role of hurdle or trampoline. Also, local context of Singapore largely facilitate mobilities of Korean ESA families at both local and global levels.

• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• 제17권2호
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• pp.100-109
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• 2015

Mobile phone carriers face challenges from three synergistic dimensions: Wireless, social, and mobile. Despite significant advances that have been made about social networks and human mobility, respectively, our knowledge about the interplay between two layers remains largely limited, partly due to the difficulty in obtaining large-scale datasets that could offer at the same time social and mobile information across a substantial population over an extended period of time. In this paper, we take advantage of a massive, longitudinal mobile phone dataset that consists of human mobility and social network information simultaneously, allowing us to explore the impact of human mobility patterns on the underlying social network. We find that human mobility plays an important role in shaping both local and global structural properties of social network. In contrast to the lack of scale in social networks and human movements, we discovered a characteristic distance in physical space between 10 and 20 km that impacts both local clustering and modular structure in social network. We also find a surprising distinction in trajectory overlap that segments social ties into two categories. Our results are of fundamental relevance to quantitative studies of human behavior, and could serve as the basis of anchoring potential theoretical models of human behavior and building and developing new applications using social and mobile technologies.

• 한국지역지리학회지
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• 제8권3호
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• pp.364-379
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• 2002

본 연구의 목적은 초등 세계지리 교육과정 구성의 전제 조건을 살피는 것이다. 초등 학생들은 주로 TV 프로그램을 통해 세계 각 나라에 대한 정보를 얻고 있다. 이로 인해 다른 나라에 대해 막연한 문화적 동경을 갖거나, 때로 의견이나 편견에 의해 다른 나라들을 이해하는 문제점이 있다. 따라서 다른 나라의 삶을 그들의 맥락에서 이해하는, 균형잡힌 인식의 틀을 육성시킬 필요성이 있다. 한편, 나라별 호오(好惡)에 대한 초등학생들의 판단 근거는 장소의 상징성과 생활과 관련된 일차적 조건, 즉 기후, 음식, 주거지 등이며, 우리나라와 세계 다른 나라와의 관계에 대한 판단은 정시적 요인이 주 근거로 작용하고 있다. 반면 자신들의 삶의 터전(지방)과 세계와의 관계에 대한 인지도는 상대적으로 낮게 나타났다. 이것은 동심원적 구성에 따른 교육과정상의 문제점이라 할 수 있다. 따라서 3, 4 학년 향토 학습에서부터 지방과 세계를 연계하는 교육과정이 구성되어야한다.