| Title |
Transitioning to a True Sharing City : The Social Significance of Sharing Culture in Seoul’s Jeongreungmasil Community |
| Authors |
김종학(Kim, Jong Hak) ; 커즈 포터(Potter, Cuz) |
| DOI |
https://doi.org/10.38195/judik.2020.04.21.5.109 |
| Keywords |
공유문화; 지역공동체; 공유활동 Sharing Culture; Local Communities; Sharing Practice |
| Abstract |
This paper aims to lay the academic groundwork for urban authorities to incorporate social elements of existing sharing cultures into narratives of Sharing City, thus further enriching Seoul’s Sharing City agenda. This study in this context critically investigates the patterns and motives of existent sharing culture and presents the social significance of sharing culture based on extensive interviews conducted with the local residents of Jeongreungmasil Community in Seoul, South Korea. This paper utilizes Generalized Exchange Model for the first time in domestic research on sharing culture to assess local sharing culture of Jeongreungmasil Community, from which four analytic categories are extracted as follows; no expectation for direct indemnification, spontaneity, intertemporal continuity and instrumentality. Based on the categories, the interview results are assessed and coded to reveal that (1) providers do not expect direct compensation from recipients in sharing, (2) participants nevertheless spontaneously engage in sharing, (3) sharing is continuously conducted in various forms and frequency based on sense of kinship accumulated over time and (4) sharing serves as a vital means for the residents to construct and maintain social bonds with each other, thereby concluding that sharing culture indeed connotes social significance. |