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ABSTRACT This study examines how efforts to establish stable human relationships centered on therapeutic spaces helped a local community cope or adjust after the MV Sewol shipwreck. In the wake of this disaster, various human relationships in the affected community were shattered. The Korean government and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) set up seven therapeutic spaces to help people restore these relationships. This paper focuses mainly on NGOs’ therapeutic spaces, which share significant common characteristics. First, each therapeutic space encourages care recipients to divert their attention away from their sense of guilt regarding deaths resulting from the disaster and restore the individual's relationship with themselves through nonverbal activities. Second, the spaces try to recover individuals’ relationships with others through therapeutic encounters and interventions that embody unconditional devotion, sincerity, and understanding for both direct and indirect victims of the shipwreck. Third, these spaces establish a therapeutic network, thereby sharing recipient information and coordinating the integration of each resident. Fourth, these shared spaces created and reinforced a moral framework of reciprocity, dedication, and humanity in the community, thereby enhancing social awareness and empathy. In other words, these spaces forged a healing culture that made Koreans more sensitive to social issues and helped people move in a positive direction.
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Asian Geographer disseminates knowledge about geographical problems and issues focusing on Asia and the Pacific Rim. Papers dealing with other regions should have a linkage to Asia and the Pacific Rim. Original and timely articles dealing with any field of physical or human geographical inquiries and methodologies will be considered for publication. We welcome, for example, submissions on people-environment interactions, urban and regional development, transport and large infrastructure, migration, natural disasters and their management, environment and energy issues. While the focus of the journal is placed on original research articles, review papers as well as viewpoints and research notes under the category of “Asian Geography in Brief” are also considered. Review papers should critically and constructively analyse the current state of understanding on geographical and planning topics in Asia. The ‘Asian Geography in Brief’ section welcomes submissions of applied geographical and planning research about Asia. The section aims to showcase (1) the diverse geography and planning of Asia; and (2) the diverse geographical and planning research about Asia. The journal will also publish special issues on particular themes or areas. Book reviews can be included from time to time.