• Journal of the Korean Institute of Rural Architecture
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• v.10 no.1
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• pp.19-26
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• 2008

1) Lishu village is located in a riverside of an upper Tu-men river. Since an upper tream of Tu-men river is narrow and easy to pilot a boat, early in the past, it facilitated the form of the village near to the North Korea. 2) As for elevation, it consisted of only doors, but as time goes by, windows were made. So windows and doors were appearing much in the elevation. In 1970s', elevations are constructed in various ways; in 1980, attributed to brick housing, the elevations become much more diverse; from 1990, symmetrical elevation was revealed which consists of one door and two windows in each side of a door after 2000, the structure of the housing restored of 1930s' style which contained one window in Jungji and 1970s' style consisting of 3 windows, moreover, many free-style elevations appeared to be commercial use.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Rural Architecture
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• v.8 no.3
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• pp.83-90
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• 2006

1) Lee-Su village is located in a riverside of an upper Tu-men river. Since an upper stream of Tu-men river is narrow and easy to pilot a boat, early in the past, it facilitated the form of the village near to the North Korean. 2) The form of the village is parabolic from the founding period. That is, increasing the number of houses in the time of the Cultural Revilution Campaign, and the Japanese colony, the village has transformed into the bigger size about 72 families from the small town. After the cultural revolution, due to private asset allowed in accordance with the Chinese Reform and Open Policy, the number of families in the town and the population have been decreased. As a result, 28 families live in the village currently. 3) The town which was well-ordered in the Japanese colonial period has been changed to a very disordered and agricultural town, owing to the decrease of the families A road system has been also ruined naturally in accordance with the decline of the number of the families.