Journal of the Korean Geographical Society ISSN:1225-6633(Print) 대한지리학회지

This paper combines heteronormativity and spatiotemporal discourses to explore the ways in which public rental housing provided by the South Korean government has been utilized for the reproductive project of promoting marriage and fertility. In recent years, public rental housing policies in South Korea have shifted toward targeting bodies more prone to marriage and childbearing, such as young adults and newlyweds. By analyzing the transformation process of public rental housing targets, this paper examines the operation of heteronormative norms as a mechanism for governing life, such as how young adults are hierarchized as relatively abnormal and immature than newlyweds based on their distance from the heteronormative life cycle of family formation and childbirth, and are provided with differential spaces accordingly. Furthermore, by analyzing the words happiness and hope attached to public rental housing, this paper confirms that heteronormative happiness schemes of home, childbirth, and future happiness are implemented through the space of home. In so doing, we aim to show that the private space of home is actively mobilized as a policy instrument as a public good and that the boundary between private and public is arbitrary. Finally, by analyzing the Housing Welfare Roadmap policy, the paper reveals that the government has adopted the public rental housing policy as a spatial strategy of heterosexual spatiotemporal normativity to increase the fertility rate. This paper shows that the taken for granted notion of family formation is a sexuality project based on heterosexual normativity and describes the process by which spatial and temporal norms constrain the body through the concept of ‘heterosexual spatiotemporal normativity’.

This study explored the design and subcategories of the ‘cultural landscape’ category in ｢Cultural Heritage Act｣ of Korea, which came into effect on May 17, 2024. The World Heritage Cultural Landscapes(WHCLs), adopted by the UNESCO in 1992, overcomes the dichotomous perspective that divided world heritage into natural heritage and cultural heritage, and recognizes the combined works of nature and man, that is, heritage containing the interaction between man and nature, as World Heritage. This new type of heritage contributed greatly to the renewal and expansion of the concept of world cultural heritage. The concept of cultural landscape by UNESCO was borrowed precisely from geography. In UNESCO's heritage recognition, the WHCLs made it possible to detect the interface between cultural heritage and natural heritage, the joining point of tangible culture and intangible culture, and the convergence zone of biological diversity and cultural diversity. In contrast, today's Korean ｢Cultural Heritage Act｣ advocates UNESCO's World Heritage system as an international standard, but lacks recognition of the value of the cultural landscape category. Even some cultural landscape-related content that should be dealt with in the Cultural Heritage Act is incorrectly included in the Natural Heritage Act, and there are errors in the expression of key terms. Introducing the cultural landscape category in ｢Cultural Heritage Act｣ will provide an important foundation for rediscovering the uniqueness and diversity of the Korean cultural landscapes in the context of the diversity of world heritages.

By using wavelet transform, this study investigates the periodicity of winter temperature variability in the Korean Peninsula reflecting recent climate trends. The winter temperatures in the Korean Peninsula exhibit large fluctuations depending on the variability of the Arctic Oscillation and the Siberian High. We examine the periodicity of the winter temperatures in the Korean Peninsula and how these periods respond to ENSO and global warming. It is confirmed that the variability of winter temperatures shows different responses depending on the ENSO status. In an El Niño environment, the wavelet power shows that the periodicity is likely to be longer than of 10 days, whereas the La Niña environment exhibits the shoter periodicity. Furthermore, a warmer environment tends to extend the periodicity during the study period (1991~2020). When the environmental conditions are combined with ENSO and global warming, the significant decreases in the shorter-term periodicity of 5 to 6 days are found under the warm La Niña conditions.

This study aimed to analyze the differences in soil carbon stocks based on sampling methods and their correlation with environmental variables. The results reveal that the average unit carbon stocks from central sample points was higher at all depths compared to the central sample point with sub-sample points. Through this find, it was identified that carbon stocks can be underestimated or overestimated depending on the sampling method. When comparing carbon stocks based on soil depth, the difference in carbon unit stocks between 0-30 cm and 0-100 cm depths was approximately 1.48 kg/m², resulting in a total carbon storage difference of around 410,000 tons. This indicates that deeper soil depths reveal more forest soil carbon stocks. Furthermore, conditional Latin Hypercube Sampling was applied to assess efficiency and feasibility based on accessibility. To achieve more accurate soil carbon stock assessment and prediction, repeated surveys covering both central and sub-sample points are necessary. Implementing conditioned Latin Hypercube Sampling (cLHS) during this process can lead to a more efficient design and execution of soil sampling.

The primary objective of this study is to explore the relative strengths, weaknesses, and complementarities of two migration data sources in South Korea: the resident register migration data and the register-based census migration data. To achieve this, we first conducted a conceptual discussion on the classification categories of migration data, organizing these categories into the collection, temporal, spatial, and attribute frameworks. We analyzed the characteristics of three different migration data sets in South Korea (traditional census, resident register, and register-based census) using these classification categories. For a detailed comparative analysis, we focused on the resident register data and the register-based census data, examining total migration volume and rate, demographic structure of migrants, inter-regional migration flows, and net migration by region. Our analysis aimed to assess the extent to which register-based census data can complement or serve as an alternative to resident register data for population projections. The study found that both data sources have unique strengths and weaknesses in capturing population mobility and can be complementary. Notably, register-based census data provides significant value as a supplementary source for population projections, particularly in addressing the underestimation of youth migration in resident register data.

In this study, a multidimensional empirical analysis was conducted focusing on the current government’s advanced manufacturing promotion strategy, which is aimed at developing balanced growth hubs and reducing regional disparities. By doing so, this research sought to empirically verify several important assumptions underlying the government’s advanced manufacturing promotion strategy and to present policy implications. First, the research examined the assumption that the growth potential of advanced manufacturing would be distributed nationwide. Then, it was found that certain industries of advanced manufacturing, such as secondary batteries, future vehicles, biotechnology, and robotics, exhibited a spreading pattern of spatial distribution across multiple regions. Second, the assumption that the potential for fostering advanced manufacturing would be higher in traditional industrial areas with a robust manufacturing base was examined. The results of the analysis varied by industry type and showed a complex pattern. Third, it analyzed how private investment effects following the government’s designation of specialized complexes for advanced manufacturing are allocated at a basic local government level. As a result, it was shown that in some regions production inducement effects stemming from private investment spread out to non-specialized areas within the region, while in most non-metropolitan areas, those effects were concentrated in the specialized areas within the region.

This paper analyses that among various contemporary enclosures, the financial enclosure of housing is a typical new enclosure that emerges in the advanced stage of capitalism. As a strategy for solving the financial crisis, the state excluded methods such as mortgage strip-down or eminent domain solutions for underwater mortgage debt for the socially disadvantaged. At the same time, the financialisation and securitisation system, with institutional support from the state, provided a new way of profiting for institutional investors, including large private equity funds. This created a paradox in which Wall Street, the main culprit of the financial crisis, was again used as an opportunity to grab housing, and single-family housing became the target of new commodification and securitization, and housing enclosure was promoted. Subsequently, the single-family rental market became a major target for institutional investors, giving rise to financialised landlords and global corporate landlords as a new form of large-scale land ownership. These financialised housing enclosures are not significantly different from what Marx called reckless terrorism. Today, the enclosure developed in the public-private takings of urban development and the financialisation of housing is a representative means of primitive accumulation, an ongoing process in contemporary capitalism, where the principles of exploitation and expropriation are in a dialectical relationship in the evolutionary process of capital accumulation.

This paper aims to concretize the concept of social space, a main research subject in social geography, by analyzing the practice of food selection through the structuralized framework of social space focused on the body. To this end, the individual actor is defined as both the agent of action and the smallest social space. By supplementing Bourdieu's social space, the paper makes a framework of social space at the body level, incorporating economic, social, and cultural capital, and spatial characteristics. The survey analysis results indicate that the criteria for choosing food - 'affordable food,' 'healthy food,' and 'convenient food' - showed statistically significant differences according to sociospatial characteristics, in particular, economic capital, social capital, and spatial characteristics, while no differences were found based on cultural capital. Regarding economic capital, the scale of wealth rather than income was more relevant to differences in food choice. Social capital differences were observed mainly between dining alone and dining with family, as well as among generations. As for the spatial characteristics, the differences of food selection were prominent between residents of Seoul and rural areas. Walking distance to access favorable food was also noticeable. Through more detailed analysis of the practice of selecting food, this paper elucidates that action and the body as sociospatial entities are interconnected by various combinations of structuralized sociospatial characteristics of the body, depending on the context.

This study analyzed instances in which the researcher engaged in geographical fieldwork class in the vicinity of a rural high school in Gyeongsangnam-do. A range of fieldwork topics were addressed, focusing on the topographical environment, irrigation infrastructure, and characteristics of rural villages. Discussions also covered the benefits of conducting fieldwork in the neighborhood of school and the need for paying attention to them, the appeal of rural areas as suitable sites for fieldwork exploring both physical and human geography, reviewing cases where geographical relationships can be examined during fieldwork, and the development of positive personal geography through fieldwork. The significance of this study is to confirm the possibility of carrying out geographical fieldwork in rural areas, and to provide reference cases that can be used to apply the contents and activities of this fieldwork in other schools.

The continuous influx of youth from non-capital areas to the metropolitan area and the rise in Jeonse prices have exacerbated housing instability among young people. To address this issue, the government expanded the supply of public rental housing, known as Happy Housing, in locations with convenient public transportation and proximity to workplaces. However, problems with supply equity arose because the actual daily activity areas of young people were not considered in the supply process. This study examines the spatial similarities between the various youth mobility data and Happy Housing supplied in the metropolitan area. The results indicate a spatial mismatch between the movement patterns of young people and Happy Housing supply. Specifically, Seoul requires additional supply measures due to a shortage, Incheon needs to address vacancies because of oversupply, and Gyeonggi Province requires tailored strategies for the differing supply conditions in the northern and southern regions. This study aims to provide a quantitative basis for evaluating and managing public rental housing supply for young people in the metropolitan area.