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Investigating Regions Vulnerable to Recurring Landslide Damage Using Time Series-Based Susceptibility Analysis: Case Study for Jeolla Region, Republic of Korea

  • Ho Gul Kim
    • Journal of Forest and Environmental Science
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    • v.39 no.4
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    • pp.213-224
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    • 2023
  • As abnormal weather events due to climate change continue to rise, landslide damage is also increasing. Given the substantial time and financial resources required for post-landslide recovery, it becomes imperative to formulate a proactive response plan. In this regard, landslide susceptibility analysis has emerged as a valuable tool for establishing preemptive measures against landslides. Accordingly, this study conducted an annual landslide susceptibility analysis using the history of landslides that occurred over many years in the Jeolla region, and analyzed areas with a high potential for landslides in the Jeolla region. The analysis employed an ensemble model that amalgamated 10 data-based models, aiming to mitigate uncertainties associated with a single-model approach. Furthermore, based on the cumulative data regarding landslide susceptible areas, this research identified regions vulnerable to recurring landslide damage in Jeolla region and proposed specific strategies for utilizing this information at various levels, including local government initiatives, adaptation plan development, and development approval processes. In particular, this study outlined approaches for local government utilization, the determination of adaptation plan types, and considerations for development permits. It is anticipated that this research will serve as a valuable opportunity to underscore the significance of information concerning regions vulnerable to recurring landslide damage.

Regional Difference in Outpatient Service Utilization for Chronic Diseases among the Elderly (고령층 만성질환 외래이용의 지역 간 변이)

  • Yun, Heesuk
    • Health Policy and Management
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    • v.24 no.2
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    • pp.128-135
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    • 2014
  • Background: With ageing and growing importance of disease management system, it is necessary to investigate the extent of regional difference in service utilization for chronic diseases among the elderly and to reflect it in designing the system. Methods: A multiple regression analysis and descriptive statistics analyses were employed using patient survey, which covers nationwide health facilities and their users. Results: While the differences in the rate of service utilization/utilization outside living area between urban and rural areas or between income levels are not large, considerable variations are observed within urban or rural areas and within income groups. Conclusion: This results suggest that it is important to subsidize economically disadvantaged segments of the population and residents of less-favored areas to be better-equipped for chronic disease management in order to prevent the development of severe ailments and the need for treatment at higher-level medical institutions. Improvements to the service infrastructure in vulnerable regions are essential.

A Study on the Utilization Pattern of Information Systems for Health Centers (보건소 정보시스템의 활용현황 분석)

  • 박두희;채영문;이병화;이은경
    • Health Policy and Management
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    • v.9 no.3
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    • pp.113-128
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    • 1999
  • This study was designed to analyze the status of government policy on the computerization of health centers throughout the country and to identify the factors affecting a successful implementation of the information system. As expected, age and commitment of health center director, computer budgets, user training, and technical supports from the information specialists were the important factors influencing the successful implementation of the system. Compared with the urban health centers, fewer rural health centers installed the system perhaps due to lack budgets and the urban-oriented system features. Moreover, the systems were unevenly distributed according to the geographic regions. Some strategies for successful dissemination of the systems were also suggested.

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SEMI-AUTOMATIC 3D BUILDING EXTRACTION FROM HIGH RESOLUTION SATELLITE IMAGES

  • Javzandulam, Tsend-Ayush;Rhee, Soo-Ahm;Kim, Tae-Jung;Kim, Kyung-Ok
    • Proceedings of the KSRS Conference
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    • v.2
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    • pp.606-609
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    • 2006
  • Extraction of building is one of essential issues for the 3D city models generation. In recent years, high-resolution satellite imagery has become widely available, and this shows an opportunity for the urban mapping. In this paper, we have developed a semi-automatic algorithm to extract 3D buildings in urban settlements areas from high-spatial resolution panchromatic imagery. The proposed algorithm determines building height interactively by projecting shadow regions for a given building height onto image space and by adjusting the building height until the shadow region and actual shadow in the image match. Proposed algorithm is tested with IKONOS images over Deajeon city and the algorithm showed promising results.┌阀؀䭏佈䉌ᔀ鳪떭臬隑駭验耀

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A Study of Radio Wave Propagation Characteristics at 900MHz Range for Urban Modelling (도시형 모델링을 위한 900MHz대 전파전파 특성에 대한 연구(I))

  • 남채우;박성교박종백
    • Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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    • 1998.06a
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    • pp.165-168
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    • 1998
  • This paper describes the characteristics of CT-2 radio wave propagation at 900MHz range. Typical cell coverage of CT-2 based on picocellular design provides a 200m radius. The five sites of urban regions of Kwang Ju city were chosen to characterize propagation in various environments. On the basis of cell coverage data measured with field strength meter, average 75% of telepoint service was retained and it was lack 25% of overall gain. In some sites telepoint service was limited to two of four directions around a station. If specially designed collinear antenna with specific directivities are used in these shadow area, improved results will be acquired.

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A Study on Activation of Green Tourism - with an Emphasis on Boseong County - (그린 투어리즘 활성화 방안에 관한 연구 -보성군 지역을 중심으로-)

  • Song, Kyung-Hwan
    • Korean Journal of Organic Agriculture
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    • v.15 no.2
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    • pp.171-183
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    • 2007
  • Green tourism is a stay-flow activity between people in urban and rural area, using a natural view, tradition, and life in agricultural area. And green tourism provides rest, recreation, and new experience fur people living in urban area as well as opportunities to increase income for people in rural area. In recently, amenity is rapidly rising as a main factor fur a regional competitiveness. Boseong county shows a typical agriculture industrial structure with a weak independent base, but has a beautiful tea fields in full seasons. Boseong county is making an effort to activate the regional economy, but the result fall short of one's expectation. Several methods to activate the green tourism of Boseong county are as follows: i) introduction of specialized theme relating Boseong green tea; ii) provision of information regarding tourist resort and development of experience-program related to green tea business; iii) establishment of a sales network of products through accommodations in private houses; iv) establishment of networks among regions to achieve systematic sales of tourist experience, accommodations in private houses, and local speciality simultaneously.

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Suggestions for the Estimation of the Methane Emission from a Landfill Site

  • Lee, Kyungho;Jeon, Eunjeong;Lee, Youngmin;Park, Junghyun
    • Journal of Urban Science
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    • v.9 no.1
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    • pp.69-73
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    • 2020
  • Sudokwon landfill("Sudokwon" means regions of Seoul, Kyunggi and Incheon metropolitan cities in Korea), the world's largest sanitary landfill, has been systematically managing statistics on the incoming and dumping wastes and satisfactorily controlling pollutants including leachate and LFG. According to our long time experience of LFG field monitoring, the emission of GHG from landfill estimated by the IPCC Guideline showed much difference with our results. C&D waste has high concentration of sulfate compared to other wastes. Increased C&D waste of dumping waste had changed the COD/sulfate ratio in the landfill, which caused the increase of H2S gas and the decrease of CH4 gas. But the IPCC estimation method does not consider the effects of sulfate. In addition to that, the oxidation factor of the cover soil is set to the default values of 0.1 but the measured values by the field monitoring, are showing much higher than that, especially in the closed landfill.

A Study on the Birth of a Holy Land and the Role of Local Residents: The failure to establish a memorial facility for the victims of the Kyoto Animation's arson attack in 2019

  • Lee, Jeonghoon
    • Journal of East-Asian Urban History
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    • v.2 no.2
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    • pp.272-296
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    • 2020
  • The study will first pay attention to the conflict between Kyoto Animation Co. and residents over establishing memorial facilities after the "Kyoto Animation 1st Studio arson and Murder Incident," which occurred in Kyoto, Japan on the morning of July 18, 2019. And through on-site coverage and review of related TV program "Summer of Prayer, Voice of the Holy Land" aired by Mainichi Broadcasting System on August 17, 2019. We reviewed what this conflict means by Japanese animation fans to set a "Holy Land" of specific regions and the resulting content tourism business model. The conflict between Kyoto Animation Co. and the residents resulted in a lengthy confrontation which did not get solved until late July 2020. It proves the cooperation of residents is essential for the success of content tourism, especially the cooperation model for development of Holy Land.

A Study on the Location of Urban Parks for Green-Network Revitalization - Based on Downtown of Busan - (도시공원 입지특성에 따른 그린네트워크 활성화 연구 - 부산광역시 도심권을 대상으로 -)

  • Kim, Sung-Hwan;Lee, Gyu-Hong;Park, Sung-Bum
    • Journal of the Korean Institute of Landscape Architecture
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    • v.38 no.2
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    • pp.75-93
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    • 2010
  • Seen topographically, Busan is a city that is coastal and hilly. In the city, most parks have been formed around mountain areas that are not so useful. They also are unbalanced in location among different regions of the city. The purpose of this study is to find how to manage urban parks towards green network promotion. For the purpose, this researcher first analyzed physical and environmental characteristics of urban parks located within the main living spheres of Busan. Then, the researcher examined interactive relations between those parks and downtown areas surrounding them to classify types of the parks. In association, the researcher classified the entire of the city into inland and coastal regions. And the researcher examined mountainous and hilly urban parks that were 150 to 300 meters above sea level in the former region and 100 to 150 meters above sea level in the latter. Findings of the study can be summarized as follows. The above examination found that parks of Busan feature physically penetrating and overlapping with downtown areas of the city. How well the green zones of Busan in form of urban park are inter-connective and influential to each other heavily depends on shapes and functions that the downtown areas of the city have. In this study, urban parks of Busan were grouped according to their types and then analyzed. Based on results of the analysis, the researcher tried to find how to increase the utility of another urban parks that are expected to be formed and how to promote so-called the green network that integrates greens. Considering findings of the study, the researcher would make the following suggestions. In case of forming an urban park in a gently sloped green zone which is easily accessible and noticeable, it's important that the park should include a stream to which another green zone is converged or, if the park is located near a costal area, contribute to promote urban functions and openness. While, in a high-altitude green zone, it's more effective to form so-called the green way that consists of some limited usable site of the zone and greens behind it and then form a hub of regional community at the intersection between the main road and main gate to the urban park, contributing to the green network promotion.

The Calculation of Geographic Practice Cost Index and the Feasibility of Using It in Korean Payment System (진료비용 지역보정지수의 산출 및 국내 적용의 타당성)

  • Kim, Hansang;Chung, Seol Hee
    • Health Policy and Management
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    • v.29 no.2
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    • pp.130-137
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    • 2019
  • The fee-for-service system is used as the main payment system for health care providers in Korea. It has been argued that it can't reflect differences in the medical practice costs across regions because the fee schedule is calculated based on the average cost. So, some researchers and providers have disputed that there is need for adopting geographic practice cost index (GPCI) used in the United States for the Medicare program for the elderly to the fee-for-service payment system. This study performed to identify whether the difference in the practice costs among regions exists or not and to examine the feasibility of applying GPCI to Korea payment system. For this purpose, we calculated modified-GPCI and examined considerations to introduce GPCI in Korea. First we identified available data to calculate GPCI. Second, we made applicable GPCI equations to Korea payment system and computed it based on four types of regions (metropolitan, urban, suburban, and rural). We also categorize the regions based on the availability of the medical resources and the capability of utilizing them. As a result, we found that there wasn't any significant difference in the GPCI by regional types in general, but the indices of rural areas (0.91-0.98) was relatively low compared to the indices of other regions (0.96-1.07). Considering the need to use GPCI floor, the pros and cons of using GPCI, and the concern of the regional imbalance of resources, the introduction of GPCI needs to be carefully considered.