MANY specialists in human geography have turned their attention in the past decade to investigation of small-scale movement patterns, especially within cities (Goddard 1973; Wheeler 1972). Such studies are deemed appropriate in developing models of process such as intraurban migration. Parameter estimates derived from such studies are also useful in spatial simulation models. Morrill and Pitts (1967) pointed out a wide variety of ways in which such estimates of movement could be obtained. To the best of our knowledge this is the first rural-movements study made with close attention to daily activities and communication patterns. We chose the plains area of Cholla Pukto, near the relatively new city of Iri. Iri is not an old city in the Korean sense, having grown up at the junction of two rail lines built by the Japanese after 1905, where no city or village had previously existed. It had a population of 79,000 in 1967, when our survey was carried out. From a study by Seung-Gyu Moon, sponsored in 1965 by the Agricultural Development Council, four households in each of three settlements were selected as the respondent households. All three settle ments were less than four miles distant from the center of Iri. Wonp'albong is a traditional yangban, or rural gentry, village. Moon described it as intensely conservative in outlook, late to accept any locally popular innovation, and proud of its background and long history. Ije is also one with yangban traditions, but its headman in 1967 was considered to be a benevolent autocrat in behalf of modernization. It was the richest of the three villages, with many amenities not found in the other two. Mansu is a village of commoners with more democratic ways, open to innovation. It had been, in the past, the poorest of the three, but in 1967