• Journal of the Speleological Society of Korea
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• no.64
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• pp.1-11
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• 2004

The purpose of this study is to analyze the scientific characteristics of speleology and to contribute to the scientific establishment of speleology. For this purpose, I analyzed the scientific specialty of speleology, the relation to other sciences and the scientific approaches. In conclusion, the speleology is the applied and synthetic science, so that the effective approach to the scientific establishment of speleology is to study by means of the organic and symmetric approach than the fragmentary and uniform approaches.