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KMID : 0379319960210010061
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Korean Journal of Rural Medicine
1996 Volume.21 No. 1 p.61 ~ p.73
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A Study on the Consciousness of the Environment Pollution Problem in Pohang City
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Ha Yeong-Gil
Kwon Young-Sook
Park Kyung-Min
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Abstract
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This study conducted to determine the attitude on environment pollution by Pohang city citizens, 1,059 Pohang city citizens in the age group 20 and over were chosen and surveyed by officials’s interview at Up, Myun and Dong during the period 6
September to 20 September 1995. The issue problems to be solved in Pohang city were traffic control 47.3%, environment pollution 22.7%, cultural institutions 11.6%, water service 9.9%, education system 5.1% and community security 2.1%. The 55.1% of subjects responded that responsibility for environment pollution is every citizens duty. The trash from houses were ’garbage’(48.1 %), ’waste of life’(21.8%), ’reuse trash’(15.6%) and ’one use thing’(14.5%) in order. The 66.9% of subjects responded that the trash’s standard envelopes can be easily tear and its texture is not good. The respondents sometimes of often had experienced foreign bodies, sediment in the water service supply. The 45.9% of the respondents use natural water as drinking water, and the water service supply(26.7%), underground water(17.0%) and buying
water(9.3%) were followed. Pertaining to the air pollution(by percent) was pollution of the steel industry complex 78.0%, combustive gas 16.6% and construction dust 1.7%. The respondents at southern district complained of respiratory tract by air pollution and the respondents at northern district complained of the visual disturbance and the offensive odor(P<0.05).
Water pollution problem is factory’s wastewater 56.2%, home wastewater 36.4% and livestock’s wastewater 5.6% in order.
The respondents at southern district complained of the noise pollution by airplanes and factories at the afternoon and the respondents at northern district complained of the noise pollution by vehicles(P<0.05).
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KEYWORD
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Environment pollution, Trash, Water service supply, Air pollution, Water pollution, Noise pollution
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