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The purpose of this article is to identify real problems and to have a view of the future in Korean physical therapy of it through the survey. Moreover we make a statement for the justification acquiring the rights of practing Physical therapiests with this fundamental data. The survey was conduced on 368 employed physical therapiests males 164. tamale 190 in korea from April t to 30 in 1998 with self-administered questionnaire. The following results were obtained : 1. Of the 323 cases, 121(37.46%) work in local clinics, 55(17.02%) in hospitals, 103(31.89%) in general hospital and 21(9.60%) in rehabilitation centers or public welfare facilities. 2. In investigation of annual salary, the most common annual salary was more than 20million won in male(22.61%) and 12~14million won in female(35.36%) 3. The age group of 27~29 years accounted for 32.32% in male and 24~20 years accounted for 46.77% in female of the total physical therapiests are the highest. 4. In job satisfaction, 44.5% of physical therapiests who work in general hospital are generally satisfied and 25% are 5. The periods of clinical practice for which physical therapiests expect to devote are 164(44,81%) consider less than 10years, and 67(18.31%) expect 20years. 6. The problems of physical therapy system in korea are deviated administration of a cantral executive committee(39.94%) and excessive production of resistered physical therapiests.
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