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This paper is an investigation of the distribution of the aboriginal families and the reason why their ancestors have come to live in Kangweon Province. The aboriginal families can be classified into two big categories : those who were originated from the province and those who had immigrated from other provinces. For the immigrated families, the focus of the investigation was put upon the patterns of motives of the immigration into the Kangweon Province.

Nobody doesn't know the folk song, 'Arirang in Korea. 'Arirang' has been handed down from generation to generaton with the spirit of Koreans embodied in the 'Shadwo' and 'Image' of it. Our ancestors expressed fully their feelings of joy, anger, sorrow, and pleasure as well as their passions of love, hatred, and desire through the song, 'Arirang'. They even tried to relieve everything of life in it. Thus, 'Arirang' might be said to have been another national anthem. However, 'Arirang' is losing its melody and words nowadays and our folk songs and children's songs are being alienated from our people altogether. In other words, these songs are being changed and deteriorated by the flood of so called modern western popular songs which have been accepted without careful consideration. Although we call 'Arirang' the song of our nation and of our people, we had not tried enough eforts to keep it unchanged. In this respect, we are not free from the fault of leaving it to change and deterioration and so are we responsible for its keeping hereafter. Therefore, this paper is purposed to survey 'the Arirangs in Kangwondo' which have been either transmitted orally from district to district or scattered all over the province even if written down, to rediscover and suggest the true characters of the songs (272 verses out of 19 types) by the study of their contents, religions included, and intentions in the aspects of literature, folklore, and its social function.

The Joong-do(中島) prehistoric site is located in the Lake of ?am of Chuncheon City, the capital of Kangweon province situated on the confluence of the North Han River and the Soyang River. This island site, it is washed away by the difference between the rise and fall of the lake water level, every year. The prehistoric site, possibly ranges from Neloithic to early Iron Age, was brought to light in the consecutive excavations and surveys from 1977 to 1982 by Museum of Kangweon National University and National Museum. Various stone tools and potteries were collected by survey work of our team from the surface and disturbed areas in 1981~1982. Among such finds, there were polished and flaked stone tools, comb pattern and plain coarse potteries and other remains of Neolithic, Bronge Age and Early lron Age. This finds led us to conceive creators of multi-period cultures in the island. It is established that htere exist in Joong-do site well contained prehistoric cultures which according to typological, technological and chronological analyslis. This site's prehistoric culture must be the interlink of two regional cultures of northeast and west metting here in the fertil basin of North Han River. It seems, howefver, that some of the stone tools ans potteries of the site are comparable to those of Ham-kyung province in Northeast in Northeast Korea and West Coast of the Peninsula. It is highly promising that the study will throw much light on the prehistory of Korea.

The purpose of this study is to describe the location, form, and function of the Obong-ri, which is the same family village, and to explain the processes through which the characteristics of the village has been formed. The direct observations and interviews with the inhabitants of the village were undertaken to learn about the patterns and processes fo the village. The clan village of the Obong-ri was developed through 500~600 years by Kangneung Ham's(江陵 咸氏), Kangneung Choi's(江陵 崔氏), and Yongkoong Kim's(龍宮 金氏) families. This village is located on the southern hill-side slops of the basins which are surrounded by hills and mountains. The southern hill-side slops were chosen by the inhabitants, because it was protected from the cold winds blowing from the north-west during the winter. The Obong-ri is the agglomerated settlement which the seventy five houses are clustered together by the sam e family groups. The clan families lived in the village closely together, because they helped each other. The main function of the village is agriculture. The agriculture is the most important economic activity which composed of 81% of the occupation in the village. Based on the floor-plan, the houses of the Obong-ri are classified into two major types: linear double row room house type and L-shaped double row room house type. The influences that determine the location, form, function of the settlement, and the house type fall into three main factors: (1) the influence of natural conditions, (2) the influence of social-cultural conditions, and (3) the influence of the agricultural econlmy.