Since five-day workweek was implemented, the demands and concerns for leisure activities have been growing. However, economic situation, time limitation and the lack of leisure infrastructures such as spaces and facilities requires the development of user-oriented leisure resources, which enable people to enjoy their leisure lives in the life zone. While the demands for leisure spaces and the concerns for wholesome environment of city have been growing, the prerequisites to satisfied leisure life have not been fulfilled in the current leisure spaces of cities. Meanwhile, the waterfront has recently been highlighted as a new site for leisure spaces. Waterfront for leisure spaces with various facilities may satisfy the demands of citizens for diverse leisure activities. Moreover, leisure spaces faced water can be served as resting places satisfactory to citizens. Accordingly, the development of waterfront leisure spaces with considering the characteristics of surrounding area and the number of visitors has been required. In this study, we attempted to suggest a plan making an urban park as resting places, which please the inhabitants in a city and the plan is made on the basis of a survey of present status of the Walmi Park and demands for the park located at Joong-Gu, Incheon. For eleven days since July 9, 2009, a survey with 174 citizens was conducted about 'the level of visitor recognition and satisfaction' and 152 questionnaires in total was analyzed for the study. According to the survey, the visitors utilized ecology education experience equipments in high frequencies. On the contrary, the overall level of satisfaction to parking lots, physical exercise and education experience facilities, auditorium, and information booths were elucidated to be low. The number of participants of leisure programs currently being performed was as low as 21 and the low participation in the programs was attributed to lack of advertisement, indifference, and burden in terms of time and costs. As the essential factors to develop desirable waterfront leisure spaces at Walmi park, cultural, resting and stress reduction spaces were selected and parking lots, resting area, and ecology education experience equipments was requested to be expanded. The results of the survey showed that the access frequency of Wolmi park as leisure spaces and the participation rate of leisure program was so low that the development of leisure spaces compatible to the characteristics of waterfront, leisure programs and systemized advertisement is required.

Since five-day workweek was implemented, the demands and concerns for leisure activities have been growing. However, economic situation, time limitation and the lack of leisure infrastructures such as spaces and facilities requires the development of user-oriented leisure resources, which enable people to enjoy their leisure lives in the life zone. While the demands for leisure spaces and the concerns for wholesome environment of city have been growing, the prerequisites to satisfied leisure life have not been fulfilled in the current leisure spaces of cities. Meanwhile, the waterfront has recently been highlighted as a new site for leisure spaces. Waterfront for leisure spaces with various facilities may satisfy the demands of citizens for diverse leisure activities. Moreover, leisure spaces faced water can be served as resting places satisfactory to citizens. Accordingly, the development of waterfront leisure spaces with considering the characteristics of surrounding area and the number of visitors has been required. In this study, we attempted to suggest a plan making an urban park as resting places, which please the inhabitants in a city and the plan is made on the basis of a survey of present status of the Walmi Park and demands for the park located at Joong-Gu, Incheon. For eleven days since July 9, 2009, a survey with 174 citizens was conducted about 'the level of visitor recognition and satisfaction' and 152 questionnaires in total was analyzed for the study. According to the survey, the visitors utilized ecology education experience equipments in high frequencies. On the contrary, the overall level of satisfaction to parking lots, physical exercise and education experience facilities, auditorium, and information booths were elucidated to be low. The number of participants of leisure programs currently being performed was as low as 21 and the low participation in the programs was attributed to lack of advertisement, indifference, and burden in terms of time and costs. As the essential factors to develop desirable waterfront leisure spaces at Walmi park, cultural, resting and stress reduction spaces were selected and parking lots, resting area, and ecology education experience equipments was requested to be expanded. The results of the survey showed that the access frequency of Wolmi park as leisure spaces and the participation rate of leisure program was so low that the development of leisure spaces compatible to the characteristics of waterfront, leisure programs and systemized advertisement is required.

Leisure Space, Waterfront, Wolmi Park, Leisure Recognition