This study analyzed the use suitability with regard to resource characteristics of provincial parks to provide basic data for park management, and has yielded the following results. Organized by resource, the use suitability is highest for landscape/scenery, weather/climate, smell/sound/colors, and topography/ geology. By season, weather/climate is important in the spring, and landscape/scenery is important in the summer and autumn in determining the use suitability. Aside from the temporary phenomena of the weather/climate, the resource that most influences the use suitability of provincial parks is landscape/scenery for spring, summer, and autumn. Specifically, on a park basis, Mt. Moak’s most important resource for park use suitability is the weather/climate; other parks’ most important resource is landscape/scenery. Mt. Moak and Mt. Seonun Provincial Parks have high use suitabilities in the spring; Mt. Daedun and Mt. Mai Provincial Parks have high use suitabilities in the spring and summer. Organizing parks on a seasonal basis, there are differences depending on the resource type; moreover, there are differences in use suitability between parks depending on the season. Through evaluating the use suitability of parks, it is possible to identify resource characteristics of parks and to predict the seasonal use frequency of parks in park management, which can be used as the basic data for determining the intensity of management. As such, this study can aid visitors in determining which park suits their use purposes, and for managers in determining the priority by which the parks should be managed.

1. Introduction
 2. Methods
  2.1 Study Area
  2.2 Use Suitability Evaluation
   2.2.1 Types of resources in natural parks
   2.2.2 Use suitability evaluation methodology
  2.3 Survey Construction
  2.4 Research Methods
  2.5 Analysis Methods
 3. Results and Discussions
  3.1 Analysis Of Use Suitability by Resources
  3.2 Analysis of Resource Suitability by Parks
  3.3 Analysis of Use Suitability by Season
   3.3.1 Analysis of use suitability per season byparks
   3.3.2 Analysis of use suitability between parksfor each season
 4. Conclusions
 References

• Deugsoo Ahn(Dept. of Landscape Architecture, Chonbuk National University)
• Nara Jeong(Urban Agricultural Research Division, National Institute of Horticultural and Herbal Science, RDA) Corresponding author