This study is to delineate the tributary area of eight provincial capitals (except Suwon) in Korea based on the university and college student catchment area. Student catchment area was known referring to the home addresses in the records of each stud...
This study is to delineate the tributary area of eight provincial capitals (except Suwon) in Korea based on the university and college student catchment area. Student catchment area was known referring to the home addresses in the records of each student card furnished by the universities and colleges concerned. Based on this, the number of students sent to the nine provincial capitals by every Shi and Gun was counted and by doing this the dependence of each Shi and Gun upon the nine provincial capitals was measured. Then the tributary area of the nine provincial capitals was delineated by letting each Shi and Gun belong to the provincial capital upon which it depends most (figure 1). It has been suggested by geographers that the student catchment area can be used for the criteria of delineating the tributary area. But no attempt has ever been made to apply this. university student catchment area for the criteria to many cities of Korea.
The student catchment area delineated here was compared with the telegram region once delineated by me (Hong, Kyung Hi : Delineation of the Tributary-Area of Cities in Korea Based on the Inter-regional Telegram Interchange, Education Journal of Kyungpook University, Vol. 14(1972), pp. 1-18)and the economic region by Norton (R.D.Norton & M.K.Wood: Economic Regions in Korea) and the Province as an administrative division, (fig. 2, fig. 3, fig. 1). As a result, the three kinds of tributary areas and province showed a close proximity to each other. Despite the fact that the selection of the college was decided by the students themselves, it was proved that the student catchment area nearly coincides with the province as an administrative unit (except seven Shis and Guns) and the province of Korea is in close proximity to the geographic region. The difference between the catchment area and the telegram region seems that the former uses the actual movement of the people as its criteria while the latter uses the means of mass communication irrelative to any geographical conditions as its criteria.
The area in which the above three areas do not coincide with one another was regarded as a transition zone. 23 Shis and Guns were identified as transition zones and they were distributed generally around the vicinities of provincial borderlines, (fig. 4)
This paper dealt only with the university level student catchment area as its criteria, but according to my experience of sample study in Taegu city it is hoped that, for more complete delineation of the tributary area of the provincial capital, both the catchment area of the patients in the general hospitals and the newspaper circulation area will be delineated and then combined with the student catchment area.