Abstract

This study analyzed the community life from the perspectives of subjective well-being. The respondents were 1,000 males and females of age of over 20, sampled from the whole population in Korea. The people who live in their own house and in the rural ares('yup' and 'myun'), and have longer expected length of community residency like to attend the community meeting frequently as well as have higher sense of community. The major factors of deciding community residency were the convenience of their houses and the transportation of their community, and the degree of the environmental polution. The satisfaction with community and the sense of community were correlated with the satisfaction with life. The boundary of neighbor was considered smaller than that of 'dong', 'yup', and 'myun'. The half of respondents lived in their own hometown, the rest half who live in the strange land also kept connection with their hometown in several ways. The respondents evaluated the effect of the local self-governing system slightly positive and expected very positively the effect of this system in the future. Finally, the implications of these findings were discussed.