• Journal of the Korean housing association
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• v.22 no.6
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• pp.1-10
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• 2011

In relation to the environmental analysis system of social marketing, this study has analyzed the responses made by the future users of the integrated apartments for the elderly that are currently under development as an alternative for the housing of the aging society. By studying the comprehensive social benefits, individual benefits and the implied factors for conceptual and behavioral changes in terms of the integrated apartments for the elderly, some important study results were obtained for the practical application of the new alternative. The major points are as follows: Firstly, from social aspect, the respondents wanted to know in detail about the integrated apartments for the elderly, the new alternative was evaluated to be helpful in elderly life, and it was expected to be effective for supporting the elderly people from psychological aspect. Secondly, from supply aspect, it was revealed that an alternative for the integrated apartment for the elderly is required to be developed in details reflecting the diverse needs of the elderly people and to be developed with differentiating strategy, but its applicability may confront some difficulties. Thirdly, from private aspect, the respondents showed they would feel economic burden if an integrated apartment for the elderly is introduced actually.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Interior Design Conference
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• 2008.05a
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• pp.214-219
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• 2008

The aging of the population has been in process all over the world including most of advanced countries. With the improvement of living standards and medical technology due to the growth and development of the modern industrial society, the continuous Increase of the average lifespan has led to an abrupt growth in the population ratio of the aged. The senescence is the period where both physical and mental functions get dwindled, and due to a loss of roles in a society and a weakened social bond, the elderly people feel often neglected and isolated. Consequently, the elderly people spend a lot of time in their houses. As this means that the elderly gets higher possibility to stay within housing units and housing complex environment, residents' public space needs to be developed within the housing complex for them. Therefore, constructive programs and plans are required for the elderly who experience distance constraint because of corporal aging, for them to sustain community activities within their housing environment. Contrary to them in the 20th century, the elderly living in the nowadays informational society tend to enjoy their leisure times with arts and cultures and underscore the significance of social exchange under diverse possibility and sustainableness. Thus, it is important to preserve those circumstances to provide continuously them. Thus, the purpose of this paper is to grope a growth direction of residents' public space for the elderly to include them to their community through a socially integrated way by grasping present condition of apartment residents' public space's facilities and to be used practically as a basic housing environment data to raise quality of community life.

• The Journal of The Korea Institute of Intelligent Transport Systems
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• v.18 no.3
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• pp.14-33
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• 2019

MaaS, which provides all-in-one service for comfort mobility for customers, has been popularly researched and developed mainly in Europe. Even in Korea, the research on MaaS is also carried out which is fit to the mobility environment and needs of Korea. Korea Land & Housing Corporation(LH) also carries out research on MaaS called 'Integrated Mobility' for the residents living in LH public apartments. This study categorised the around 800 public apartments into 12 groups based on 3 key characteristics, then analysed the preference on shared-transport services by the residents of representing apartments for the each group using C&RT method. The results show that the preference on shared-transport services such as car-sharing and ride-sharing (carpool) were higher in the apartments which are located in medium or small cities or lived by the more handicapped resident groups in mobility such as the elderly. The study suggests the method to analysis the relationship between residents' preference on shared transport services and bounded ertain areas such as apartments or districts and then to introduce shared transport service fit to target areas.