Since the Korean War in 1950, refugee villages had been established mainly around Busan Harbor and near the top of the mountain. Since they had been constructed with boards in a temporary structure form, in addition to frequent fire disasters, problems of residential environment and cityscape reached a serious level. Busan constructed enforced migrant areas in order to alleviate these problems to disperse and migrate residents to the suburban areas of the city.
The type of housing built in these areas established since the early 1970s was a two-storied, four-household Rahmen structure, and the form of a parcel-out was providing only the exterior wall of the residence. Thus, residents constructed the interior to live there. At the time of moving in, young couples in their early thirties moved in, living for nearly 40 years till now, and they extended the house or transformed the interior as occasion demanded, so now, unique residential spaces have been formed.
Of these residential housing areas, this study attempts to through interviews and actual surveys of Yongho-dong area and draw characteristics of changes in the residential spaces. For this purpose, first, this study analyzes residential life behavior and spatial correspondence during the honeymoon period the residents moved in; second, it analyzes the relationship between the patterns of the extension of the residential spaces during the middle years of their lives and their dwelling lives; third, it analyzes the characteristics of their current usage of the residential spaces in their old age and the actual status of underused spaces. As a result of the analyses, this study attempts to sum up the residential space correspondence according to the changes in the residents'' life-cycle from honeymoon through middle age to old age. In addition, it also attempts to look into the characteristics of the extension and change of the residential spaces according to the characteristics of the location of the residential housing areas and the residents'' community spaces as well.
As a result of the study, first, data on the characteristics of the extension of housing units by location; second, residential space correspondence according to the changes in life-cycle; and third, the characteristics of the residential lives of elderly households and the spatial scale of their daily lives. This study has a value in that it is a biographical record of the residential spaces and housing areas that have existed for over 40 years in enforced migrant areas of Yongho-dong, Busan in modern times.