Abstract
Maintaining and improving the ecological soundness and value of Korea’s traditional villages can contribute to their role as tourism resources. This study examined water treatment measures intended to improve the ecological value of one of South Korea’s traditional villages by analyzing the efficiency of water treatment in a pond at the village’s entrance and changes in flora around the village pond. The results demonstrated a statistically significant reduction of non-point pollutant sources flowing from the pond into surrounding farmland. Treatment efficiencies of Total Nitrogen, Dissolved Oxygen, Biochemical Oxygen Demand, and Chemical Oxygen Demand and Total Phosphorus were 75.33, 30.02, 65.52, 59.12 and 78.85 percent respectively. Moreover, changes to the flora around the village pond were analyzed. Prior to the village pond being dug, the flora consisted of a single-species gramineous plant; however, after the village pond was constructed, nine types of aquatic plants were identified, including lotus plants. The flora diversity was increased, with the aquatic plants showing strong growth. This pond function influences the reduction of pollution load for streams outside the village, and distributes the treatment effects of pollution sources that occur inside the village.
Highlights
Today, sustainable city development is a significant objective for urban environments
Results may vary depending on the survey purpose, survey timing, and season, the water purification function has been confirmed in a similar test for general detention ponds
The pond at the village entrance, which was the focus of this study, takes the form of a village bangjuk, commonly seen in traditional Korean villages
Summary
Sustainable city development is a significant objective for urban environments. The Ministry of Environment, one of the branches of the central government, engaged in a 10-year national project to “[create] ecological streams” from 2006 to 2015, and the Ministry of Land invested a large budget in creating and restoring environmentally friendly streams that allow humans to coexist with the environment over the five-year period between 2007 and 2011 [3]. These efforts were made to improve quality of life by enhancing the comfort factor of the physical environment, species diversity, and the soundness of the aquatic ecosystems. We focus on the fact that traditional villages represent a concentration of wisdom as the foundation of living that is suitable for these specific lands over a long period of time
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