• Journal of the Korean Geographical Society
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• v.31 no.2
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• pp.268-294
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• 1996

Social and population geography in Korea has been developed somewhat later than other special subjects of geography. But in recent years, it has attracted much interests of geographers, and accumulated a considerably large amount of research products. Seen in this context, it is resonable to expect that social and population geography will not only lead the development of geography in the future, but also contribute to the resolution of socio-spatial problems in Korea. From this point of view, we shall retrospect in this paper the progress of social and population geography in Korea since the 1950s, and look out its future prospect and further research tasks. In the first place, we discuss general concepts and major themes of social and population geography, and overview its development process, and than review in more details some important research products which would be categorized into five main subjects, that is, research methodology, urbanization and urban population phenomena, population movement and changing rural life, residential differentiation and urban redevelopment, and urban social life and regional social well-being. Finally, we consider briefly the future prospect and further tasks of social and population geography in Korea.

• Proceedings of the KGS Conference
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• 2003.11a
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• pp.132-137
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• 2003

세기의 전환기에서 우리 라라 지리학의 역할과 위상은 새로운 국면을 맞이하고 있다. 지식정보사회의 도래와 함께 공간에 대한 개념과 인식이 바뀌고 있으며, 교육환경도 빠르게 변화하고 있다. 대학을 포함한 교육현장에서 교육소비자들의 다양한 욕구에 능동적으로 대처하기 위한 발전적 대안이 모색되고 있는 현실을 감안할 때 지리학의 학문적, 실용적 경쟁력 확보와 대중화를 위한 노력이 절실히 요구되고 있다. (중략)

• Proceedings of the KGS Conference
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• 2003.05a
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• pp.18-18
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• 2003

일지기 하트손은 $\ulcorner$지리학의 본질에 관한 전망(1959)$\lrcorner$ 에서 지리학은. 지표면의 다양한 성격에 관한 정확하고 합리적인 서술과 설명을 제공하는데 관심을 지닌다., 라고 하였다. 다시 말하면, 지리학은 지표의 다양성과 지표현상의 분포에 많은 관심을 가지는 듯하다. 전자는 지표의 부분지역의 성격을 규명하는 것이라면, 후자는 지표현상의 요소를 대상으로 지표전체에 걸친 체계적 연구라고 볼 수 있다. (중략)

• Journal of the Economic Geographical Society of Korea
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• v.20 no.3
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• pp.259-266
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• 2017

• Journal of the Economic Geographical Society of Korea
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• v.11 no.1
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• pp.1-7
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• 2008

• Journal of the Korean Geographical Society
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• v.47 no.4
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• pp.471-473
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• 2012

This special issue is planned to introduce the recent academic state of the Korean geography, as the 32nd International Geographical Congress (IGC) in Cologne, Germany, 2012 is approaching. Korean Geographical Society successfully hosted the 29th IGC 2000 in Seoul and had a chance to introduce trends and achievements of korean geographers at the time. This issue is to review the achievements of korean geography research for the past ten years, and to overview the academic prospect of the korean geography.

• Journal of the Korean Geographical Society
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• v.48 no.2
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• pp.218-238
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• 2013

The objective of my paper is to investigate historical change in concepts of medical geography and to present its historical vision. Modern medical geography was established in the name of medical topography in Europe where it had to control tropical diseases in the course of exploration and voyages for colonial interests. England developed medical geography in the name of sanitary reform, France did so for civilizing mission, and geomedicine prevailed in Germany. The twentieth century witnessed two traditions of medical geography, with focus on disease ecology and medical care system, respectively. In addition, the paper emphasizes the significance of cartography of disease as knowledge as power. As the identity of place becomes increasingly important in relation to health at the around of the twenty-first century, geography of health has emerged as a new promising discipline independently of medical and public health geography.

• Journal of the Korean Geographical Society
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• v.42 no.2 s.119
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• pp.218-242
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• 2007

This paper is to consider the developmental process of Korean geography on the context of socio-spatial transformations of Korea, and then to suggest briefly its alternative visions. The development of knowledge including geography seems to be made under imperatives of social functions and structure in a given period, and knowledge in turn gives power for a further development of society. Modem geography in Korea has progressed on the context of capitalist development of Korean society which can be divided into two phases, that is, the period of developmentalism and that of neoliberalism. Korean geography has been developed under influence of ideologies of developmentalism and neoliberalism, and in turn has made some contributions to socio-spatial policies. Korean geography in the future, it can be suggested, should go beyond both developmentalism and neoliberalism, and put socio-spatial welfare, civil society or community, and environmental justice into its central issues.

• Journal of the Korean Geographical Society
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• v.47 no.4
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• pp.514-521
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• 2012

In this paper, three general academic issues in Korean biogeographical studies were comprehensively reviewed: 1) relationship between environmental factors and plant distribution, 2) past vegetation and climate 3) interaction between humans and environment. Biogeography in Korea is poorly developed field and has been generally ignored by geographers in Korea. The future for biogeography in Korea however seems promising and Korean biogeographers have a great opportunity to develop their field. To attract more prospective graduate students into biogeography and train them would be very important for the gradual and persistent development of geographical biogeography in Korea.

• Journal of the Korean Geographical Society
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• v.13
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• pp.28-35
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• 1976

한국의 경제지리학을 회고하고 전망하기전에 언급의 한계를 명백히 하고저 한다. 첫째는 해방이후 전세계적인 경제지리학의 연구동향을 간단히 일별하면서 그 속에 처하여 있는 한국 경제지리학의 위치를 확인하는 것이고, 둘째는 경제지리학이라 하더래도 그 연구범위는 매우 광범위하므로 이 중에서 연구의 성과가 비교적 현저하다고 볼 수 있는 농업지리 및 공업지리분야에 중점을 두고 언급하려는 것이다. 특히 전후에 두드러지게 나타난 인구지리분야와 응용경제지리학분야에 대해서는 별도로 집필되고 있기 때문에 여기에서는 제외했으며, 지리학이 아닌 타과학에서 미친 영향도 적지 않으나 역시 본고에서는 전문적 지리학연구에만 한정했다. 셋째로, 본고에 동원된 자료는 전문적 학술지에 의존하였으나 가능한 범위까지는 석사논문 수준도 취급의 대상이 되었으며 교재적 성격을 띤 단행본도 이에 포함이 되었다. 단 정책용역의 성격을 띤 보고서류는 그 종류나 수에 있어서 월등하지만 공간이 아닌 경우가 많으므로 업적은 여하간에 취급의 대상에서 배제하였다.