2017, Vol.6, No.1

Journal of the Association of Korean Geographers 2023 KCI Impact Factor : 1.35

pISSN : 2287-4739 / eISSN : 2733-8991
https://journal.kci.go.kr/JAKG

Vietnam and Korea have a lot of aspects similar both in historically and geopolitically. Especially, the difficulties that Vietnam is going through, due to the sovereignty issues surrounding the South China Sea, has much to suggest us. For Korea, who is facing difficult national issues such as the sovereignty of Dokdo island as well as the naming of ‘The East Sea’ etc., the timing seems just right in reviewing the Vietnam’s case study. Therefore, the purpose of this research is to understand the Vietnam’s response methodology and the status on territorial education regarding the sovereignty issues they are facing. As a result of the research, in Vietnam, the East Sea (Biển Đông) related academic conferences are led annually by the government organizations such as Vietnam Diplomatic Academy, Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences, East Sea (Biển Đông) Research Foundation, and Vietnam Legal Society. The East Sea (Biển Đông) Research Foundation offers a variety of academic awards in order to encourage researchers' interests and participations. In addition to the academic researches, Vietnamese people, via SNS, are propagating throughout the world the illegal activities by Chinese and their unfair situation that they face, in order to attract worldwide netizens’ interest and sympathy. At school, students strengthen their determination in protecting their territories by listening to lectures on ‘The Islands’ in the East Sea or by participa ting themselves in performances that symbolize the Vietnamese territory. In addition, a systematic territorial education is being conducted through the regular courses such as History, Geography, Civic Education, and Defense Education

This study attempted to analyze the leadership and management ability according to organization type and residents participation rate for rural tourism communities in a form of community business. As a result, leadership, management ability, visitors and sales in accordance with participation rate did not show a statistically significant difference. The difference in accordance with organization type showed a significant difference in the promotion-marketing area of management ability, financial area and sales. This study results are against the existing study results saying that residents participation in the results of village business is an important factor. This is stressing that for community business, because not only public benefit but profitability is emphasized unlike general village business, practical job performance resulting from business factors is required rather than village residents' unconditional participation. Furthermore, it was analyzed that corporate types of village organization such as agricultural corporations and farming association corporations have relatively high performance compared to unincorporated bodies such as village associations and corporate units. For a corporate body, since it presents the purpose and vision in its articles of association accurately and gives certain amount at the time of participation in the business, it can relatively ensure the responsibility of residents compared to a unincorporated body. Accordingly, for a community business, a form of corporate body is more efficient than a unincorporated body.

Bukchon village, the center of Seoul in South Korea, nestles snugly at a range of Bugack, Inwang and Naksan Mountains harmonizing with hills and small streams. The village has been a political, cultural and historical center of Seoul for about 600 years. Thus, the research on this place from a geological point of view is very meaningful. In this study, by overlapping and tracing antique maps and modern-contemporary maps, I found out how the water ways of Bukchon village have changed over time. I also confirmed the consistency among those changes and analyzed the placeness of Bukchon village by exploring various literatures newspapers, autobiographies and native people's narrative texts. After the research, I found out that the water ways in Bukchon village are hidden due to the covering constructions during the Japanese colonial period, but have been still flowing under roads up to now. I also ascertained that there remain some wells and wash places in the village which are the traces of the past water ways. I verified that though the water ways of Bukchon have changed a lot, they still are recognized as one of the important factors which are influencing upon the placeness of Bukchon village.