Housing can be defined as the vessel containing human life and each country has considerably different form and culture of it. Putting more weight on the way of construction and spatial usage, this study seeks to provide understanding on society’s c...
Housing can be defined as the vessel containing human life and each country has considerably different form and culture of it. Putting more weight on the way of construction and spatial usage, this study seeks to provide understanding on society’s common cultural values of housing affecting selection, decision making, and control efforts on various housing issues. Consequently, applying a multidisciplinary approach, this project seeks to explore the correlations between people and housing, and between society and housing, to better understand the thought and culture of the housing residents. In order for doing it, adopting cultural value of housing as a tool, a comparative cultural study of housing values in East Asia starting from Korea and China will be conducted. Through such a comparative cultural study, it will be ultimately possible to grasp the locality and uniqueness of specific cultures with more clarity.
The purpose of this study was to analyze the view of Housing Values between Chinese students studying in Korea and Korean Students. A survey using questionnaire was conducted on 126 Korean Students and 145 Chinese students from K University on a random sampling basis. The results of survey is as follow. As both Korean and Chinese university students of neighborhood environment, convenient traffic, privacy and safety, and to be given a higher value. On the other hand the symbol of social status to have a lower value. Korean university students give a higher consideration in terms such as <Downtown commercial area and the accessibility>, <Neighborhood reputation>, <Social status and identity> than Chinese university students. Chinese university students give a higher consideration in terms such as <Public facilities>, <scenic green area> and <State-of-the-art facilities> than Korean university students.