Major Time-Use Survey Results of the Korean People in 2010 and Changes during the Industrialization Period

Abstract

This paper is firstly to present the latest time-use survey results of the Korean people as revealed in the 2010 national survey. The survey was done during the middle of October 2010 utilizing a national sample of 3,500 people over ten years of age. The results of the data analysis have revealed some significant changes since the immediately previous 2005 survey. But the more interesting changes are revealed since the first survey in 1981. Thus the second purpose of the paper is to trace the peoples time-use paternal changes during the countrys 30-year of industrialization. The time series data accumulated during the 30-year period of industrialization vividly expose the peoples time-use patterns, and show how the Western life-style with more leisure and self realization activities had become a trend in Korea with the nations industrialization.