• International Journal of Human Ecology
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• 제4권1호
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• pp.71-86
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• 2003

Over the past few decades, changes in patterns of behavior (e.g., diet, smoking, alcohol consumption, and physical activity) have led to major changes in health status, characterized by increases in obesity, Type II diabetes mellitus, cardiovascular disease, and some cancers. This epidemiologic transition is largely the result of rapid increases in immigration to developed countries and rural-urban migration within developing countries, which is usually accompanied by environmental and lifestyle changes. In particular, adoption of “Western” dietary patterns, which tend to be high in fat and low in fruits and vegetables, is of concern since diet is a potent contributor to chronic disease risk. However, until recently, the process by which immigrants and rural-urban migrants adopt the dietary practices predominant in their new environments, known as dietary acculturation, has received very little research attention. Dietary acculturation is multidimensional, dynamic, and complex, and varies considerably depending on a variety of personal, cultural, and environmental characteristics. Therefore, to intervene successfully on the negative aspects of dietary acculturation, it is important to understand the process and identify factors that predispose and enable it to occur. The purpose of this article is to provide a practical model for understanding and investigating the effect of dietary acculturation on food and nutrient intake. Thus, this report 1) gives an overview of acculturation, 2) defines dietary acculturation and presents a model for how it occurs, 3) discusses measurement issues around dietary acculturation,4) reviews the literature on dietary acculturation in Korean Americans; 4) suggests a paradigm for acculturation research; and 5) offers some recommendations for future research in this area.

• Journal of Contemporary Eastern Asia
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• 제19권2호
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• pp.148-168
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• 2020

In April, 2020, amid widespread fear of a second wave of infections of the novel coronavirus in China, local authorities in Guangzhou cracked down on the city's black population, resulting in mass evictions of Africans. The incident raises several questions about racism in China. How should we interpret this heavy-handed treatment of black people? Was this an isolated incident? What motivated such operations? In this article, I explain social control of Guangzhou's African communities as a problem of municipal politics. What underlies the government's heavy handed approach, I argue, are those communities' ties to rurality, which constitute a roadblock in the city's urban upgrade. Using Dengfeng Village, one of the best known African communities in China, as a case study, I show that efforts to upgrade the area by the local state and the real estate industry were frustrated by the community's status as an urban village. Africans, whom Chinese have historically associated with rurality, are seen as contributing to a space that has long been stigmatized as a spatial manifestation of rural people's lack of self-discipline. To better reveal the interconnection between social control and urban politics, I place official action in context of the history of the community's formation and the lived experience. This analysis of Dengfeng applies to various extents to other major African communities in Guangzhou.

• 보건행정학회지
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• 제31권1호
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• pp.125-139
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• 2021

Background: In Korea, the health gap widens due to the number of medical resources and access to medical services between metropolitan and rural. The purpose of this study is to identify the impact of residential migration on medical utilization and accessibility. Methods: This study extracted 528,516 claimed cases in the National Health Insurance Service-Cohort Sample Database from 2006 to 2015. Subjects were classified into two groups by the magnitude of the region, the metropolitan and the rural. The inversed probability weights were calculated for each group. And coefficients of the two-part model were estimated by generalized estimation equation. Results: Those who moved region from metropolitan to rural tend to increase the length of stay and inpatients with ambulatory care sensitive conditions (ACSC) disease. Contrariwise, those who moved areas from rural to metropolitan tend to decrease the total medical cost, the adjusted patient days, the number of outpatients and the number of outpatients and inpatients with ACSC disease. Conclusion: This study identified that between the residents who continued to reside in the region and the migrants, there were significant differences in the medical accessibility, quality of primary care, and unmet medical need.

• 동남아시아연구
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• 제20권2호
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• pp.31-72
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• 2010

This study is to explain the nature of transnational activities being involved in by Filipina intermarriage migrants in Korea by examining the institutional backgrounds of market, society and the state. The increasing number of Filipina intermarriage with Korean coincides with the advance of liberal market economy, which governs internal and bilateral interactions between and among the three institutions in both countries. While existing various reasons for engaging in intermarriage, a significant number of Filipina wives in Korea ventured into it with uncertain expectations that they might earn better lives and could support their families. Such hopes usually turn out in vain when they meet the real lives in Korea. It is mainly because their spouses in Korea would rather be those who left behind in the marriage market due to their lack of competitiveness. Filipina wives are also suffering from social isolation caused by language and other barriers such as family relations or rural life they might settle in. Their transnational activities usually tend to be their effort to breakthrough their unexpected condition of difficult lives in Korea. They usually make use of transnational sort of community activities to cultivate chances to engage in bread earning activity. Migrant's transnational activity has a great impact on sociocultural changes in the country of origin and of arrival. Transnational activity provides migrants with economic opportunities, and uplifts self-esteem as well. Intermarriage couples, especially with Southeast Asian wives, and their offsprings show a tendency of downward assimilation to Korean society. Korean state policy toward them should not simply apply undiscriminated assimilation theory, but take into account their possible strength of transnational identity with which they could find a means to integrate themselves successfully into the mainstream Korean society.

• 대한지리학회지
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• 제39권1호
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• pp.102-115
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• 2004

As a household's residential location is closely related to its workplace and place of education, the urban exodus of city dwellers changes their ways of commuting to workplace and attending school. This paper examines the influence of urban exodus on the change of a way of life through relations between residential location and modes of commuting. Despite moving to the countryside, exurban migrants still want to experience rural health without abandoning the city lifestyle. However, they are faced with various difficulties in commuting to workplace and attending school, because suburban and exurban areas have poor accessibility to the central city. In order to overcome these problems, most of them choose "the residential segmentation of the family" through which the head of the family commutes to the city from his or her family home in exurban areas and children go to school from their second home in the central city, or try "to link commuting to workplace with attending school".

• 한국산림과학회지
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• 제112권2호
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• pp.230-247
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• 2023

본 연구는 국가숲길로 지정된 지리산둘레길 인근 5개 시군의 귀산촌인을 대상으로 국가숲길이 귀산촌인의 삶의 질에 어떠한 영향을 미치는지를 파악하기 위하여 수행되었다. 귀산촌 전·후 지리산둘레길을 이용한 집단이 이용하지 않은 집단보다 지리산둘레길의 귀산촌 결정영향여부, 삶의 만족도, 행동의도가 높게 나타났다. 귀산촌 결정에 지리산둘레길의 영향을 받은 집단 또한 영향을 받지 않은 집단보다 지리산둘레길 이용 만족도, 삶의 만족도, 귀산촌 만족도, 행동의도가 높게 나타났다. 귀산촌 지역에 따른 귀산촌인의 삶의 질, 귀산촌 만족도 중 장소적 만족, 행동의도에서도 유의미한 차이가 있었다. 결론적으로 귀산촌 결정과 귀산촌 이후의 귀산촌인의 삶의 질에 지리산둘레길이 중요하고 긍정적인 역할을 하고 있는 것을 확인할 수 있었다. 본 연구결과는 산촌지역 발전에 기여할 수 있는 국가숲길 관련 정책 및 산촌 인구소멸 대응방안을 제시하는데 기초자료로 활용될 것으로 기대된다.

• 한국지역지리학회지
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• 제3권1호
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• pp.99-113
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• 1997

본 연구는 영농을 목적으로 도시에서 농촌으로 거주지를 이동하는 귀향농가의 발생이유와 그들의 적응과정을 미시적 사례분석을 통해 밝히고자 하였다. 1980년대 이전의 귀향농가 발생은 가족 부양이나 도시적응실패 등의 사회적 원인이었지만 최근의 귀향농가 발생은 재배작물의 수익성을 고려한 경제적 원인이 더 크게 작용된 결과이다. 귀향농가의 발생유형은 이촌 후 고향으로 귀농하는 경우가 많지만 직접적인 영농경험이 없는 도시거주자가 수익성을 고려한 특정작물의 재배를 목적으로 귀농하기도 한다. 특히 최근의 귀향농가는 농업경영형태에 있어서 소유농지가 전혀없이 순수 임차에 의해 발생되기도 하며 농지의 매입보다 임차지의 확대를 통해 경영규모를 확대하고 있다. 그런점에서 귀향농가의 증가는 산업화 이후 노동력부족에 따른 농촌의 경지이응을 저하를 완화시키는 방안이 될 수 있다. 현재까지는 귀향농가의 비중이 미약한 것이 사실이지만 최근들어 증가 추세에 있고 귀향하는 경영주가 젊은 연령층이므로 이들에 의한 파급효과는 기대해 볼 수 있다. 따라서 과소지역으로서의 농촌문제 해결을 위해서는 귀향농가를 위한 적극적인 대책이 모색되어야 하는데 이들의 성공적인 정착을 위해서는 자금지원이나 영농조건의 개선도 중요하지만 교육여건과 생활시설의 개선 등 하부구조의 확충이 무엇보다 절실하다.

• 한국전통조경학회지
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• 제39권3호
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• pp.42-55
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• 2021

본 연구는 도곡1동 경남아파트 단지 내에 위치한 약 760년된 느티나무를 연구 대상으로 삼아 함께 관계하며 살아왔던 과거 역말의 원주민들과 재개발 이후 입주한 이주민들의 기억을 조사하였다. 장소기억은 1980년대 이후 새롭게 조명된 개념으로 장소에 대한 감정과 생생한 기억의 흔적을 바탕으로 장소에 남겨진 다층적 기억을 연구하고 기록하는 새로운 연구 방법론으로 활용되기도 한다. 1970년대에 시작된 강남의 도시 개발은 느티나무가 위치하던 역말 주민들의 삶 터를 아파트 단지로 빠르게 바꾸었다. 평생의 터전으로 살아왔던 역말 원주민들은 전국 각지로 뿔뿔이 흩어지게 되었고, 이주민들이 새롭게 입주하였다. 그 과정에서 느티나무는 시대에 따라 다른 방식으로 관리되며 거주민 또한 서로 다른 방식으로 관계를 맺게 되었다. 역말 주민들은 느티나무에서 휴식을 취하거나 단오 때 그네뛰기를 하기도 하고, 마을 제사를 지낼 때 신의 강림처로 인지하였다. 즉 삶과 죽음의 전 과정을 함께하며 주민들의 생활사에 따라 다양한 역할이 부여된 것이다. 구체적으로 체험되던 직접적인 체험공간이자 역말 주민들의 집단기억이 녹아있는 장소이기도 하다. 반면 경남아파트가 건설되면서 보호수에 대한 관리가 엄격해짐에 따라 이주민들은 느티나무에 접근할 수 없게 되었다. 따라서 현재는 시각적 향유를 중심으로 나무를 즐기는 모습을 발견할 수 있으며, 매년 열리는 역말도당축제를 통해 일시적으로 도시 공동체와 공동의 기억을 형성한다. 나무를 의인화하며 정신적 위안을 얻는 모습도 발견할 수 있었다. 도시 배경 속에서 노거수의 자연성이 부각되어 '유일함과 특별함'이라는 상징성을 획득하기도 하였으며 주민들은 이를 통해 아파트 단지에 대한 자부심과 장소애착을 갖기도 하였다. 두 주체의 느티나무에 대한 기억을 통해 시간의 층위에 따라 쌓여온 느티나무의 장소성을 살펴보았다. 또한 현대도시에서 느티나무 보호수가 지니는 가치 및 관리 방향을 고찰하는데 있어 '사람들의 기억'을 중심으로 연구를 시도하였다는 의의를 지닌다.

• 농촌지도와개발
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• 제10권1호
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• pp.31-42
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• 2003

The purposes of this study were (1) to identify the present situation and pending problems of agricultural education in Agricultural Technology & Extension Center (ATEC), (2) to analyze the satisfaction degree and educational needs of agricultural extension education program, and (3) to draw some implications in the direction of the development direction of agricultural extension, based on the analysis aforementioned. Data were collected through questionnaires from 230 farmers. Based on the results of study, the recommendations were as follows. 1. Increase of income could not guarantee the improvement of QOL. So, ATEC should make some efforts to plan and administer diversified agricultural extension and education programs. 2. Agricultural practice was the most effective educational methods. Especially, for return-migrants and young farmers, applicable educational program should be planned and offered. 3. Education program on agricultural information, especially on the internet use, would be the most attractive program of agricultural extension education in the future.

• 한국간호교육학회지
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• 제18권3호
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• pp.383-392
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• 2012

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to identify the relationship between marital satisfaction and the quality of life for women and men who live in a rural area in Korea through an international marriage. Methods: A descriptive correlational research design was used. Ninety-one women and 56 men were surveyed from May 1st., 2007 to April 6th., 2008. Data were analyzed by t-test, Pearson's correlation coefficients, and Fisher's exact test. Two types of questionnaires were used: Marital satisfaction scale (MSS) and WHO quality of life-brief (WHOQOL-BREF). Result: There is a gap between men's age and women's in the average of their marriage ; 37 vs 24. In addition, men's marital satisfaction was much higher than women's (t =2.16, p=.032) and quality of life was also higher than women's (t=-0.85, p=.005). According to this survey, therefore, it has been shown that there is a positive correlation between marital satisfaction and the quality of life (r =.435, p<.001). Conclusion: In order to improve the quality of life, marital satisfaction should be promoted by practical family nursing programs and it is necessary for the internationally married women to be continuously provided with language education and cultural awareness.