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This study examined how residential development in commercial zones of Seoul affects employment dynamics, while also considering the hierarchy of central areas. The study findings validated that a rise in the residential floor area across the entire commercial zone had a detrimental effect on employment expansion. Nevertheless, it was discovered that a rise in residential development in urban and metropolitan areas had a beneficial effect on employment. This trend was attributed to the rise in the need for services, along with the additional impact of commercial and business activities resulting from the growth of residential areas. Hence, the implications of residential development in commercial zones on employment are contingent upon the central area hierarchy and business functions, highlighting the necessity of residential development regulations that take into account employment expansion and high-density utilization within each specific region.

Utilizing the value-based adoption approach, this study empirically examines the factors influencing the perceived value and desire to continue utilizing proptech platform services. The findings indicate that usefulness, enjoyment, convenience of use, and responsiveness all have a substantial impact on perceived value and intention to use continuously. While they had negative effects, technicality and perceived danger were not statistically significant. This study is designed to give basic data for marketing strategy development for proptech platform service providers, as well as contribute to the industryʼs growth.

As a result of analyzing the differences in housing satisfaction according to housing status and living environment by gender and household head type, it was found that crime prevention and security conditions had a significant impact on housing satisfaction regardless of gender. In the case of female-headed households, small details such as smell and noise have a big impact, and housing satisfaction can be seen as being determined by the living environment rather than access to external organizations or facilities such as medical facilities or commercial facilities. Therefore, the independence of facilities and autonomous space within the complex is judged to be a higher priority. In the case of small-scale housing such as demand for housing or officetels, the focus on housing satisfaction may vary depending on gender trends, so housing policies and housing supply that reflect these trends are needed.

This study empirically analyzed the factors influencing residential intentions for senior towns in the context of a super-aging society. With the increasing number of single-person households, the research focused on whether the factors affecting residential intentions differed between single-person and multi-person households. An online survey was conducted among seniors nationwide, and 250 valid responses were analyzed using structural equation modeling with AMOS 24. The results indicated that accessibility to medical services, reasonable housing costs, community programs, residential environment, provision of inheritance and gift services, and provision of guardianship services positively influenced residential intentions for senior towns. The influence of these variables was ranked as follows: accessibility to medical services, community programs, residential environment, provision of guardianship services, provision of inheritance services, and reasonable housing costs. For single-person households, reasonable housing costs, provision of inheritance and gift services, and provision of guardianship services had a significant impact on residential intentions. In contrast, for multi-person households, the residential environment significantly impacted residential intentions. This study expanded the scope of senior town research by comprehensively analyzing various aging-related factors, such as inheritance and gift services, guardianship services, accessibility to medical services, and community programs, which affected residential intentions for senior towns. Additionally, the study revealed differences between single-person and non-single-person households regarding the factors that influenced their residential intentions for senior towns, suggesting that different policy responses were necessary depending on household composition. Lastly, the research emphasized the need to establish a senior town policy in Korea that considered both the financial well-being of seniors and the protection of their lives in old age.

The study examined four new alternative models of public housing for sale in Seoul. The analysis focused on the owner's cost reduction and capital gains. First, since there is no specific model with a comparative advantage, it is necessary to consider the housing market and regional characteristics to introduce the model. Second, the public housing supply model should be adopted after conducting several preliminary studies, including policy effectiveness, socioeconomic burden, and applicability. It is necessary to prepare an institutional foundation suitable for policy conditions and the housing market in Seoul. Finally, prior to the full-scale supply of alternative models, introduction standards and detailed measures should be set through pilot projects, and negative consequences should be mitigated by a monitoring procedure.

Public housing has raised concerns about potential negative externalities on neighborhoods due to stigma, segregation, and social discrimination. Previous studies using circular buffers to assess these effects on housing prices have produced inconsistent results. This study used elementary school district boundaries to define treatment and comparison groups as a more valid framework. The treatment group included homes within the same school district as the subject public rental housing (Dongnae Happy Housing project) while the comparison group included homes in adjacent districts. Using difference-in-difference analyses with sales transaction data from January 2017 to December 2023 in Busan, South Korea, we found that housing prices in the treatment group were approximately 8.38% lower than in the comparison group. An additional analysis using 500m and 500-1500m distance-based buffers yielded similar, though less statistically significant, results. These findings suggest that assessing the external effects of public housing requires more precise, contextually relevant methods for defining treatment and comparison groups.