This thesis, a study on a satellite city of Kyoˇngsan-Uˇp, follows the prior study, which analyses the urbanization of the city, and examines the change of population, transportation and industry of Kyoˇngsan-Uˇp. The results drawn from this obser...
This thesis, a study on a satellite city of Kyoˇngsan-Uˇp, follows the prior study, which analyses the urbanization of the city, and examines the change of population, transportation and industry of Kyoˇngsan-Uˇp. The results drawn from this observation are as follows.
1) The Change of Population:
Until the early period of the Chosoˇn dynasty, Kyoˇngsan-Uˇp, an administration center, had had a larger population than peripheral administrative towns, The increase of population in the town, based on the high birth rates and high death rates, had been extremely low until the last period of the dynasty. The town had relatively higher population increase during the Japanese rule, for commerce by the Japanese had developed in the city in the period. After Liberation, particularly since the 1970, the population has rapidly increased, for factories and colleges in Taegu have moved to Kyoˇngsan.
Since 1970, there has been active population migration and the migration rate, which amounted to 17.1% in 1973, has outranked those of Seoul and Taegu. In particular, the immigration of women has been remarkable and, therefore, the sex ratio lowered from 102.0 in 1969 to 89.9 in 1980. The population structure change from the Pyramid-type, the high growth type, in 1969 to the Bell-type, the decreasing growth type, in 1980.
2) The Change of Transportation:
The Yoˇk-route transportation had been one of the important traffic systems until the late period of the chosoˇn dynasty. The Yoˇk-route had stretched from Kyoˇngsan to Taegu, Hayang, Chain, Ch'oˇngdo and Ch'angnyoˇng. Apnyoˇng Yoˇk-settlement, belonged to Kyoˇngsan-Hyoˇn, however, was a small one, where there were only 23 officials and 15 slaves, and 14 horses.
In terms of the railroad transportation, with the construction of the Kyoˇngbu Railroad in 1905, the volume of traffic had rapidly increased, and the appearance of large commuting population made Kyoˇngsan an area of daily life with Taegu. At the close of the 1960's the passenger traffic climaxed, which made Kyoˇngsan develop as a satellite city of Taegu.
The roads opened according to the Yoˇk-routes in choˇson period at the beginning of the Japanese rule. Around 1927, the regular bus ran on the Taegu-Kyoˇngsan-Ch'oˇngdo route but the volume of traffic was much smaller than that of the railroad. After Liberation, as Taegu grew to be a metropolis, the volume of road traffic had rapidly increased between Taegu and Kyoˇngsan. As urban buses of Taegu ran to Kyoˇngsan-Up in 1969, the latter city become an area of concurrent life, which contributed to a great extent to the growth of Kyoˇngsan as a satellite city.
3) The Change of Industries:
From the early period of the chosoˇn dynasty, Kyoˇngsan-Uˇp had been a central town in the agricultural region, where rice had largely been cultivated in a well-irrigated paddy. In Kyoˇngsan, commerce had flourished as a collecton and distribution place of agricultural products during the Japanese colonial rule, when the Japanese gathered the products and exported to their country. From the Liberation to the middle period of the 1960's, Kyoˇngsan had been a central place of the suburb agriculture, where apple had been largely cultivated. In the 1970's, as textile factories in Taegu moved to Kyoˇngsan, the latter city grow to be an industrial satellite city. In the early 1980's, as colleges in Taegu moved to the city, people involved in the tertiary industry began to rapidly increase in Kyoˇngsan.
As a result, urban-typed industries, the second and tertiary industries, are predominant (79%) in Kyoˇngsan-Uˇp, and the city grows to be a productive satellite city, which possesses various functions under the positive influence of mother-city of Taegu.