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The purpose of this study is to trace and examine the changes occurred in the Korean public’s environmental concern for the past three decades and to explore its social bases. Comparisons of previous survey data reveal that the three competing theories, namely, the environmental degradation theory, the affluence theory, and the globalization theory are only partially true,unable to explain the decline of environmental concern after the year 2000, suggesting a certain degree of validity of constructionist approaches in the Korean context. Cross-sectional analyses of the 2010 KGSS data show that there has been a shift in the social bases of environmental concern since 1990s, with class or stratification variables losing their significance while such horizontal variables as demographic and cultural variables becoming salient in accounting for individual attitudes toward environmental concern.
