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Title A Study on the Conditions of Household Items for children and Storage Living in Apartment - Focused on One-child Families in 3-bedroom Apartment in Seoul -
Authors 정경숙(Chong, Kyong-Suk) ; 윤지원(Yoon, Ji-Won)
DOI http://dx.doi.org/10.14774/JKIID.2017.26.4.065
Page pp.65-74
ISSN 12297992
Keywords 3-Bedroom Apartment ; Children’s Room ; Household Items for Children ; Storage
Abstract The purpose of this study is to grasp the retention status of household items for children and the real condition of storage targeting dual career families of living in 3-bedroom apartment. To do this, a field survey was conducted by having subjects as 30 households of conforming with the requirements. This led to understanding kinds and quantities of household items for children inside the residence and to surveying the present status on household items of being stored by room, thereby having analyzed a difference in household items according to children's age. The survey results are as follows. First, the household items for children within dwelling were indicated to be totally 145 detailed items. In the quantities of the detailed items, a great difference was shown by age in clothes, books, teaching aids, toys, and stationery. Second, as a result of examining a place of being stored the household items for children, the household items in great quantities were found in living room, room 1, and room 3 even in addition to room 2 that is children's room. Third, in consequence of looking at the storage status of household items for children by age level, it could be known that very different household items are being used depending on children's age, and that a place of storing household items is much varied by age. This outcome could lead to being capable of knowing that one-child families living in 3-bedroom apartment are using every room focusing on child, and that child's household items are being disorderedly stored in each space, thereby requiring the systematic storage plans so much that reflect the real situation.