2021, Vol.45, No.7

Journal of Tourism Sciences 2023 KCI Impact Factor : 2.7

pISSN : 1226-0533 / eISSN : 2713-6388
https://journal.kci.go.kr/JTS

Using the case of Jeju Songak-Mountain Tourist Destination 1st Development Project, this study examined multi-dimensional aspects of conflict between publicness and tourism development. The model of publicness, which is constituted by the tripartite frameworks: ‘contents’, ‘acting subject’ and ‘process’, was employed as the theoretical framework of the study. In particular, this study theoretically elaborated an integrated model of ‘content-acting subject’ by critically applying Habermas’ Theory of Communicative Action to the procedural issue. The current study posed three particular research questions: (1) What were the contents of publicness during the tourism development project? (2) Who were the acting subjects, and how did they implement and interfere with the publicness?（3）How was the process of publicness conducted? To provide answers those questions, content analysis was performed using a wide range of data including documents of court decisions, auditors reports, internal reviews of business sectors, relevant articles of various newspapers and broadcast news. Results showed that the project failed to facilitate public interest and community sustainability. Results also indicated that the public sectors as acting subject were engaged with private interests and financial benefits. Moreover, civil societies failed to voice solidarity with local communities and the media failed to serve as a public sphere to prompt the procedural rationality. The research sought to make a theoretical and analytical contribution to the development of tourism studies by exploring the multi-dimensions of conflict between publicness and tourism development.

With the recent rapid increase in the number of Koryo-people in Korean society, issues such as Korean society's views and stereotypes toward Koryo-people, their maladaptation to society and culture, and consequent non-participation in leisure activities require academic attention. The purpose of this study is to understand leisure constraints experienced by Koryo-people who migrated to Korea and the process of overcoming them. In order to achieve this purpose, this study used theoretical sampling, and in-depth interviews were conducted with 15 Koryo-people residing in Korea in November 2020. Grounded theory approach was used which consisted of open coding, axial coding, and selective coding. The concepts derived from the interviews were grouped into 37 subcategories. As a result of classifying subcategories, a total of 13 upper categories were presented: daily stress, maladjustment to life in Korea, inappropriate perception of leisure, COVID-19 situation, stress as a Koryo-people, willingness to overcome leisure constraints, intrapersonal constraints, interpersonal constraints, structural constraints, behavioral negotiation strategies, cognitive negotiation strategies, maintaining work life balance, and social adaptation. The core category was analyzed as participation in leisure activities through negotiation strategies and willingness to overcome perceived constraints.

This study examines the validity of the attention restoration theory by exploring the relationship between perception of recovery environment and psychological effect. It was also investigated whether the level of cognitive load in everyday life and the level of perception of congestion at the place of visit act as a moderating variable. Items to measure the variables were organized based on prior researches, and two preliminary surveys were conducted. The population of the study was tourists returning home after visiting Jangheung-gun Cypress Forest Woodland. The survey was conducted from September 25 to September 26, 2018, and a total of 250 samples were used for the final data analysis. Results show that the perception of the recovery environment had a positive effect on psychological recovery in the case of short-term psychological recovery. In addition, it was found that 'rest and universal attraction' among the components of the perception of recovery environment had the most significant effect on psychological recovery. Although the validity of the attention restoration theory hypothesis was not tested in this study, evidences of this study suggest that the hypothesis could be valid if the cognitive load of daily life was below an appropriate level. Also, findings of this study show that congestion perception in the natural environment has a significant effect on the causal relationship between recovery environment perception and short-term psychological recovery.