북한 도시 연구를 위한 도시지리학의 주요 연구방법 검토

Abstract

This study is to examine how urban geographical approach and study areas made until now can be applied to study for city in North Korea. The specific study issues were divided to aspects of urban system, urban structure, and daily lives in social activity to examine. First, the prospect of approach based on aspects of urban system about cities of North Korea, it is judged that if size of population, spatial distribution. In North Korea’s cities can be figured out in time series, characteristics of urban system and its change process can be analyzed. But it should be considered that distortion in urban system can happen according to political factor in North Korea. Second, urban structure of North Korea which is a socialist nation has a different structure from capitalist cities. As socialist ideology is reflected on structure of urban space, ineffective use of land and one-sided urban structure can occur. Therefore, extraction of elements to form urban structure fit to special situation of North Korea’s cities, analysis and interpretation on its organization and structural mechanism are needed. Third, in the study on city at microscopic level related to life space, oral materials of residents living in urban areas can be used. This has a meaning in that individual urban experience can be figured out through mapping of daily lives. It also has a meaning that in the study on North Korea’s cities - access to the cities is not possible and to secure their literature data is difficult - oral history of migrants who escaped from North Korea can be used as important data.