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

‘Challenge-based learning (CBL)’ and ‘LEGO Serious Play (LSP)’ are learner-centered creative problem-solving learning models that have recently attracted attention. This study proposes a new teaching and learning strategy that integrates the two learning models. To this end, CBL and LSP were theoretically considered, and an integrated learning model was designed by deriving the complementary properties of the methodology. As a result of the theoretical review, it was confirmed that CBL emphasized the problem-solving process led by learners and the subject selection centered on wicked problems, and LSP focused on cooperative learning through horizontal communication between participants. Accepting the advantages of the two learning models in this study, a learning process was designed based on the CBL model in the problem setting and problem-solving stages, and an integrated learning model that actively utilizes the LSP model in the problem-solving stage was designed. As an example of a class for this, a practical teaching plan using the industrial cluster theory of economic geography was presented. Through this study, the authors emphasize that the integrated approach of the two learning models is useful as a new teaching and learning strategy for improving not only spatial thinking skills required in geography education but also creative and collaborative problem-solving skills, and that theoretical and empirical studies on this need to be conducted in the future.

This study analyzes the meaning and role of care spaces in the reconfiguration of informality and formalization within care labor, focusing on the case of paid domestic labor in Jakarta, Indonesia. Previous research often frames informality as the primary cause of precarity and promotes formalization as the normative solution to ensure decent work. This study critically engages with such binary logic and adopts the perspective of care geography to analyze the spatial dynamics and everyday practices of care actors. The home is conceptualized as a multi-space setting that simultaneously functions as a private space of intimacy and a public space where waged care labor takes place. Findings reveal that informality can cause conflict and harm in care relationships, prompting formalization as a proposed remedy. Yet, reciprocal informal ties persist, and rigid formalization can deepen precarity. These dynamics unfold through care actors’ perceptions and practices in navigating care spaces. Rather than fixed opposites, informality and formalization emerge as fluid and intertwined processes. This study contributes to care labor literature by offering a more nuanced understanding of how these processes are shaped by spatial contexts and lived experiences, moving beyond simplistic dichotomies in the analysis of domestic work.

The Korean Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) area has symbolized the division of the Korean Peninsula and served as a military buffer zone between North and South Korea for over 70 years since the signing of the Armistice Agreement in 1953. Paradoxically, it is also a connecting space of biodiversity and rich ecosystem services, as its heavily fortified status has restricted human access for decades. The DMZ area represents a social-ecological system (SES) where political ideologies, military conflicts, socio- economic factors, historical and cultural significance, and ecological values are intricately intertwined, exhibiting characteristics of common-pool resources (CPRs). This study applies Social-Ecological Systems Framework to analyze the interactions among the key components of the DMZ area and explore strategies for spatial sustainability. The research area was symmetrically defined around the Military Demarcation Line (MDL), encompassing the DMZ, the restricted civilian access zones, and the border areas of both North and South Korea, adopting a multi-scale perspective. The findings emphasize the need to expand spatial spectrum, systems thinking regarding the dynamic interactions between social and ecological components and to adopt a multi-layered network perspective for spatial sustainability. Furthermore, to effectively implement the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in the DMZ area, it is essential to establish adaptive meta-governance and other effective area-based conservation measures (OECMs) from a social-ecological systems perspective, expanding Ostrom’s design principles for sustainable common-pool resources management. Future case studies applying the social- ecological systems framework will significantly contribute not only to enhancing spatial sustainability in various regions of Korea but also to advanding the metamorphosis of the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals.

This study aims to analyze the selection attributes of ecotourism site that would significantly effect on ecotourism development. To do so, this study conducted the empirical analysis using 319 valid survey answers collected from Geomunoreum Lava Tube in relation to visitors’ recognition on importance and satisfaction towards selection attributes of ecotourism. This study applied IPA(Importance-Performance Analysis) techniques introduced by Martilla and James(1977), Vavra(1997) and Deng(2007) in order to conduct comparative analysis. However, the result of Martilla and James traditional IPA technique provided distorted outcomes explained by the previous studies. Thus, this study applied Vavra and Deng’s revised IPA for comparative analysis. Based on the comparative analysis of two revised IPA techniques, this study derived some results and implications for the development of the ecotourism site. First, it is necessary that most of attributes involved in the tourism resource and environmental component factors, an attribute as a proper introduction of Geomunoreum, and an attribute as knowledge and expertise of staff are required to continuously maintain its level. On the other hand, it is identified that attributes as diversity of guidance information services, convenience of reservation information for experience of ecological trail, and convenience and accessibility of public transportation for the visit revealed low level of priorities for additional investment in order to achieve further development. Consequently, this study provides the visitors’ recognition towards importance and satisfaction on selection attributes of Geomunoreum ecotourism which has not been actively studied. Based on this analysis, this study provides the academic understanding and new theoretical model which contribute to develop ecotourism resources of the Oreum-based ecotoursim site and recognize the value of ecotourism based on the geographical approaches.

Survival rates depend heavily on the ability of 119 emergency services to respond in a timely manner, and analyzing spatial accessibility is essential. However, the accessibility of emergency services in high-rise areas is limited by the existing two-dimensional road network-based analysis, which does not fully reflect the actual rescue delay factors. This study aims to overcome these limitations by performing a three-dimensional rescue time analysis that integrates the road network and indoor travel routes. In the outdoor accessibility analysis, the rescue arrival time was calculated by combining the road network, traffic information by time of day, and reflecting the connectivity from the road to the building. In the indoor analysis phase, we used the Unity-based A* algorithm to calculate rescue times for each vertical mode of transportation inside the building, and calculated rescue times for staircase and elevator scenarios. The total rescue time was then visualized in three dimensions on a voxel-by-voxel basis to determine the spatial distribution of structural vulnerability areas and vertical movement delays. The results showed that, unlike traditional road network-based rescue time analysis, the three-dimensional analysis including movement within the building can more precisely reflect rescue delay factors. This reflects the potential for delays in actual rescue activities and can be used as a basis for establishing customized rescue response strategies by region.

When it comes to representing Seoul historic sites on today’s landscape, some are supported by proper evidence, while others are not. The sites are indiscriminately displayed on electronic maps in an identical shape, creating a critical misconception that all the locational proof is equally reliable. I address the issue in this article by differentiating the positional precision of 347 historic sites explained by the Seoul Cultural Historical Markers. GIS restored their presence as point and polygon features along the way. I devised the point precision for each historic site in three levels and the areal reliability in two, which create six possible outcomes when combined. As a result, 76% of Seoul historic sites mark “precise” in point and areal reliability, whereas 3% are identified as “imprecise” in both criteria. The six cases detail the procedure in which I determined the two types of positional precision. To conclude, the most appropriate way to display these precision levels is to use the pop-up window, as commonly used by popular interactive map platforms. A couple of lines of information appended to the existing format must be a plausible suggestion to private companies, but official maps run by the government are also good alternatives.