연구논문 : 도시노인의 여가활동 성향과 관광 인식도에 관한 조사연구 = A Study of Patterns of Urban Senior Citizen's Leisure Time Activities and Their Travels

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

With advanced medical knowledge and improved quality of life, Korea has rapidly become a country of aged people at a rate unprecedented in history. As a result, many problems regarding senior citizens are arising. One of them is how to use their leisure time which is different from young people who use their free time as a means of recreation or recovery from tiredness or fatigue. Leisure time for the aged is the whole part of their life. In this paper the author focused on how to minimize older people's agony and the related problems of senior citizens. A survey was done with 500 older people who live in Taegu concerning the patterns of their leisure time activities and how much they are satisfied with those activities. The same survey also was done on the awareness and the level of understanding of tourism traveling. With this we can prepare the basic data to make policies for the senior citizens and strategies to develop an ideal expansion of sound tourism traveling among the aged people. The results of the survey are as follows: A. The older people's view on leisure time 1. Their views on senior citizen's travel has been change. In the relationship between work and leisure time 65.1% of the respondents said that both work and leisure time are equally important though they place more value on work than on leisure time. Differing from the past when they thought "leisure time" as the time of being wasted and unproductive, their leisure time of today has become the core of their everyday life with which they can pursue their personal development. 2. They get involved in inexpensive leisure time activities. Most older people in Korea don't follow the same rules as advanced countries. They spend much of their time watching TV, listening to the radio, and reading newspapers (55.10, which is closely followed by light exercise and hiking in the mountains (50.1%). Senior citizens in advanced countries enjoy traveling, sports attendance and participation, and community volunteer work. 3. Their participation in leisure time activities is high, but their degree of satisfaction is rather low. Seventy-eight point two percent of the respondents said they make the best of their leisure time, but their level of satisfaction only reached thirty-four point eight percent. 4. The reasons they cannot enjoy their leisure time activities are that (1) they have economic problems (26.4%), (2) they have a lack of programs for senior citizens (24.1%), (3) they have a lack of both facilities (19.7%), and (4) a lack of advertising (13.2%). B. The older people's view on tourism traveling 1. Most agreed upon the necessity of tourism traveling (35.1%). The positive side of tourism traveling is (1) to get away (35.7%), (2) just for an experience (32.2%), and (3) friendship (15.90. On the other hand, the negative side of tourism traveling is (1) a waste of money, (2) the destruction of the environment (20.6%), and (3) social decadence (16.8%). 2. Seventy point five percent of the respondents said they are planning to travel within the next year while twenty-nine point five percent don't have travel plans because (1) they can't afford to travel (32.60, (2) they are in ill health 15.5%), and (3) they are alone (12.7%). The most favored countries Korean senior citizens would like to travel to is China, the United States, Japan, and many of them want to take a pilgrimage to Europe. 3. The survey said that 55.4 of the respondents had a negative view of tourism because it creates social decadence. To improve tourism (1) we need better leisure time programs (28.70, (2) more advertisement for older people (27.9%), and (3) crackdown on the activities of bad travel agencies (22%). 4. Senior citizens have complaints about tourism because of (1) traffic congestion (23.3%), (2) a lack of public order (23.1%), and (3) environmental pollution (13.9%). 5. To develop tourism in Korea the most urgent things the government should do are: (1) to develop tourist