주거지 현황을 통해 본 주거공간의 양극화 현상 = Socioeconomic Polarization and Dwelling Places in Korean Society

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

It has been noted through various indices and analyses that housing was beyond a simple dwelling space and functioned as a main means of expanding wealth, thus being regarded as the subject for investment or speculations in Korean society. By the way, the occupation of dwelling spaces that have formed the axis of daily social activities in present Korean society caused not only the separation of a place of residence, but also that of educational space centering on the school districts, thus serving as a key link that transformed economic polarization into social polarization. Meanwhile, it would be necessary to pay attention to the fact that the polarization in our society has been further consolidated together with the spatial differentiation of professions. For example, when examining the job distribution chart by region shown in the Population Census Data of 2000, it has been found that the large-scale cities, Daejeon and the Seoul Metropolitan areas had a higher rate of professional and administrative workers belonging to `the group of professional and administrative workers` than regional cities and non-Metropolitan areas by national and regional level. An inclining phenomenon of job distribution also reappeared in the inner cities and the professional and administrative workers in Seoul lived mostly in Seocho-gu, Gangnam-gu, and Songpa-gu. Therefore, if considering the Habitus effects based on home, schools and regional communities as a whole, it could be concluded that the polarization of Korean society was not simply limited to the maldistribution of economic capital, but has inevitably fell the given society into complex social problems including human & social capital and symbolic cultural capital.