• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.15 no.5
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• pp.523-536
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• 2015

To evaluate local residence's awareness, qualitative analysis on various indices was done. The survey was conducted on 4 districts of Taebaek-Si, Samcheok-Si, Yeongwol-Gun and Jeongsun-Gun. The survey considered regional population distribution and used population proportion significant extraction method per counties. This is to analyze of regional development effect awareness, the research was categorized according to residence, residence period, whether worked in the mining industry previously, whether working for Kangwon Land, whether getting benefit from casino location, whether entering to casino and quality of life enhancement from casino location. As it was As for the quality of life effect, 'satisfactory to nature environment' ranked the highest with the number of 2.88 and 'Living in this area is happier than living in other area' was 2.58 which was relatively higher than the other indices.

• Korean Journal of Culture and Social Issue
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• v.11 no.4
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• pp.67-82
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• 2005

The purpose of this study was to explore whether or not the increased availability of legalized gambling leads to increase in the prevalence of gambling-related problems, and the relationship between gambling behaviors and gambling-related problems and residents' perceptions of their own satisfaction with life among the residents who live at the location of casinos. Three casino communities, designated by a special law as run-down mining areas, were chosen for the survey research. One community consisted of two towns, Kohan and Sabuk in Chongsun county at which the casino is located. The other communities were Taeback city and other rural areas in Chongsun county. 559 samples from three communities completed self-administered questionnaires(gambling behavior participation, K-NODS, perceived impacts coward casino development, and scales of the satisfaction with life). Results were as follows; it was found that there was a positive relationship between gambling behaviors and gambling-related problems, and a negative relationship between gambling-related problems and the satisfaction with life. While residents who live Kohan and Sabuk community were likely to perceive negative impacts of the casino development, the residents in Taeback city were likely to perceive the casino development positively. It was found that the increased casino accessibility led co the increase in the gambling problems; the prevalence rates of pathological gambling in Kohan and Sabuk community were higher than both in Taebak city and in more rural areas in Chongsun county. The nagative impacts of legalized casino industry on community where the casino located were discussed.