부산대학교 도서관

Over the past 50 years, the causes of forest fire were mainly broken out by accidential fire of mountain goers regardless of the era. In 1960s and 1970s, forest fires occurred in the following order; carelessness of visitors to their ancestral tombs, children`s playing with fire, burnings on the ridges between fields or rice paddles, incineration of garbage, and incompletely extinguished cigarette butts stand in order for the highly causes of the fire. However, after 80s, the order was changed to burnings on the ridges between fields or rice paddles, incompletely extinguished cigarette butts, incineration of garbage, carelessness of gravesites, and children`s playing with fire. The fire occurrences by gravesites and children`s playing with fire were largely decreased except the fire which was broken out mistakenly by mountain-goers, but the one by burnings on the ridges between fields or rice paddles, incineration of garbage, and incompletely extinguished cigarette butts showed a continuously increase. The occurrences by the ridges between fields or rice paddles and incineration of garbage have been increased after the enforcement of volume-rate disposal system since 1990s. The cases by children`s playing with fire was decreased with the rapid declination of the number of children in farmland and mountainside country. The cases by carelessness of gravesites have been also decreased since 1970, and it was shown that the case of forest fire was decreased by changing with the funeral culture.