This paper aims to examine the sparseness of rural population in Korea and Japan, by comparing Korea's national policy for this problematic phenomenon with Japan's. Both countries seem to approach the sparseness of rural population, which resulted from a rapid economic growth, in considerably different ways. Korea has taken an indirect action, encouraging rural communities to deal with the problem of the population sparseness on their own by initiating a social movement. On the contrary, Japan has made direct efforts to handle it in a governmental and administrative aspect by pouring enormous budget into the alienated life in rural areas, and so on. Nevertheless, neither of them has still solved the problem of the rural population sparseness. So, it is necessary to clearly understand the realities of it in order to find out its cause and solution in a diverse fashion. Given my belief that a comparative study of the sparseness of rural population in Korea and Japan functions as an effective means of finding a good solution to the problem, in this paper, I have presented the primary data relevant to the population sparseness problem.
동북아시아문화학회 [The Association of North-east Asian Cultures]
설립연도
2000
분야
복합학>학제간연구
소개
동북아시아 문화의 다양성과 정체성을 연구 토론하고, 지역내 문화 교류의 다양한 모습을 연구하고 문화변동의 큰 틀을 집적함으로써 우리 민족 문화 및 상대 민족의 문화적 터전을 이해하여 문화공동체적 특성을 계발하고 상호 관련성의 강화를 유도하는 학술활동을 통해 동북아시아의 문화발전에 이바지함.