Many employees at the high-tech medical complexe reside in government-provided housing. These workers live at the complexes during weekdays and return to their family homes during weekends due to insufficient human settlement. This research aims to an...
Many employees at the high-tech medical complexe reside in government-provided housing. These workers live at the complexes during weekdays and return to their family homes during weekends due to insufficient human settlement. This research aims to analyze the human settlement at the Osong BioHealth Science Technopolis in Chungbuk and Sinseo Innovation City in Daegu by conducting a survey on employees' level of satisfaction with their human settlement in order to suggest methods for improving human settlement based on user opinion.
Five aspects were considered to form the basis of the human settlement: transportation, residence/safety, education, welfare/medical service and culture/ recreation. Data were collected on thirty seven facilities and their surrounding infrastructures with regard to the social environment and the high-tech medical complex. Also, the sitemap of the internet portal site Daum was used to analyze the human settlement.
A Likert scale was used to measure the level of satisfaction with the human settlement. Chi-square testing was used to determine whether marital status affected the settlement satisfaction levels by studying the most satisfying and the least satisfying factors.
In terms of the factors affecting satisfaction in settlement, the railroad network and administrative agencies were important in Osong Chungbuk, whereas in Sinseo Daegu, the factors were road and air networks, the police station and patrol division, the fire station and 119 emergency center, social welfare centers, hospitals, clinics, health centers, libraries, art galleries and museums.
As for the factors in which marital status influenced the human settlement, these were museums in Osong Chungbuk and air network and houses, elementary schools, middle schools and museums in Sinseo Daegu.
Transportation and resident safety were ranked as the first and second most important factors, respectively, influencing user satisfaction levels at both locations. The least important factor was culture/recreation at both locations. The second and third to the least influential factors at Osong Chungbuk were transportation and welfare/medical service, respectively, while at Sinseo Daegu these were welfare/ medical service and education.
The reasons for dissatisfaction with human settlements were inadequate or insufficient availability of cultural venues, such as theaters, and poor medical infrastructure, such as hospitals, in both areas. Further reasons were insufficient transportation between Cheongju and Osong in Osong Chungbuk and lacking educational institutions and inadequate school districts in Sinseo Daegu.
Participants in the survey suggested improving cultural infrastructures, providing transportation, building hospitals, stabilizing housing prices and building educational institutions. For Sinseo Daegu, reducing the noise level and the amount of fine dust surrounding the airport, building a fire station and expanding public physical-education centers, such as swimming pools, were recommended.