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KMID : 0353019760130010138
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Korean Journal of Public Health
1976 Volume.13 No. 1 p.138 ~ p.144
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A Socio-Medical Survey of Men Utilizing a city-operated Home in Seoul
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Abstract
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Seoul City has operated a municipal shelter for the purpose of providing temporary housing and job training for men aged 18-64. These men were not capable of earning their living and are forced to live on the streets because they have nobody to care for them.
The magnitude of the problem of people moving to the City who are unskilled and unable to earn a living has recently beenacknowledged by City authorities who are trying to remedy the situation.
Seoul City operates such a shelter with a capacity of 800. The data is supplied from individual interviews of 805 of the men who were accomdated at the shelter as of June 20, 1975.
1. Interms of age, 72% were less then 50 years old, and 18% were 50 or over.
2. As for the length of stay, 69% had been at the service for less than one. Year, while 27% stayed longer than one year. Older men tended to stay larger than younger men.
3. 70% of the men entered the shelter because the police referred them there.
4. 4% of them didn´t know admissional motivation.
5. 37% of the men had jobs before centering the shelter.
6. 21% had already finished their military service before contering the shelter.
7. 22% had no formal education, 30% had an education of six years or more.
8. 20% had physical defects or disorder, and 29% sufficulties.
9. Of those who stayed more than one year, 24% had physical problems and 42% had mental problems.
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