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In 2000, a consumption of a sweet potato is increasing rapidly because of we recognize a diverse faculty of a sweet potato as well-being food. Recently, The important problem in a sweet potato industry is how to increase of brand-power in region, So how to produce of good quality a sweet potato sapling is very important subject in a sweet potato industry. The income rate of a nut sweet potato is 43.2% per 10a and the income rate of a pumpkin sweet potato is 1.7% per 10a. The reason of the income rate of a pumpkin sweet potato is lower than the income rate of a nut sweet potato is because of that a quantity of a pumpkin sweet potato is 59.6% of a quantity of a nut sweet potato, and the price of a pumpkin sweet potato is 76.8% of a price of a nut sweet potato. To increase a income rate of a sweet potato, First, To increase of supply of a vinyl plastic hothouse, Second, To increase of supply of a non-virus sapling, Third, To get a higher price of a sweet potato sapling, Forth, To disinfect a vinyl plastic hothouse by sunning to protect of a virus and a harmful insects.

This study is designed to analyze effect recognition of local residents, which is a provider and a operator in local festivals. The data were collected from questionaires filled out by the 288 residents. The results of this research can be summarized as follow. First, most of residents showed positive effect recognition on the local festival impact. Secondly, there was significant difference in degree of effect recognition between residents. Third, it showed that, among the 5 effect recognition factors, 'socio-cultural effect', 'economic effect', 'environmental effect', 'local industries network and community attachment', 'locals image' and among the 5 factors 'economic effect' had the strongest effect on the contribution of regional development. The facts find that the residents-oriented festival planning and promotion is more important in the partnership with local government and private sector-local residents.

The purpose of this study is to evaluation and analysis of regional festivals in Daejeon. Korean regional festivals have been booming in recent years with the revitalization of local autonomy. It should be linking the festivals with the sight-seeing destinations around them or other tourism industries. The findings show that it is necessary for Daejeon city to identify key motives to visit regional festivals and to differentiate the planning of festival because a motive to visit is various by the festivals. And this strategy focuses on the promotion of cultural attractiveness to induce visitors for regional development.

The paper attempts to analyze the so-called New Vitalization Project of underdeveloped regions in Korea and suggests the strategy and ways to improve the program. It also presents the governance system for developing the underdeveloped region, especially the Committee for Regional Innovation. The "New Vitalization Project(2005-2007)" initiated by the Noh Moo-hyun government showed some positive results such as building self-reliance regional economy and governance structure for regional innovation, image differentiation of regions, industrialization of special products of each regions, and enlargement of citizen's participation. But the projects resulted in some problems such as inefficient use of budgets, insufficient human resource, unorganized operating system, absence of detailed target and cooperation between participating partners. Although the projects showed some defects, they will help to improve the underdeveloped regions.

The regional innovation network is defined a formal, informal network among crucial actors in a regional multi-governance structure. Defining and promoting the multi-actor innovation networks that form the regional innovation system is essential. In a case of Daedeok R&D Special Zone(DRDSZ), it has been found that regional innovation network has often formed from a heterogenous group of various actors including representatives of firms, universities, technology centers, development organization and supporting institutions. This paper suggest that the Regional Network Platform Method is presented as a tool for the regional innovation policy under the reigning techno-socio-economic paradigm. The Daedeok Innpolis such as a supporting institution aim to promote spill-over effects of network in designing development strategies that are based on demarcating the boundary between the supplier and producer of public goods(support services) in DRDSZ.

It is said that UK has a long tradition to develop green book which contains government guidelines with appraisal and evaluation of policies and capital projects. All new policies and projects in the categories needs to be appraised from the standard evaluation guidelines when they initiate it. It is well known fact that the green book can apply its principles to other projects. Korean government introduced pilot feasibility survey system in April 1999, and established PIMAC(Public and Private Infrastructure Investment Management Center), which manages inclusively pilot feasibility survey, in KDI in Jan. 2000. However, it does not yet reach the stage to which applies UK guideline for Korean practice, particularly in local government. Therefore, study aims to evaluate the UK green book to possibly adopt it for Korean government. Some recommendations are suggested for Korean Government to effectively implement public projects based on the proposed project evaluation model.

For last several years, production of pear has been experiencing over-supply due to good climate conditions and selling price crashing with severe competition among the farming districts. Under these circumstances, systematic and overall measures to improve the pear growing environment are required, taking into consideration in particular that pear cultivation accounts for about 10% of the Naju economy By fact finding investigation of the Naju pear growing farmers and the analysis, this study points out the current problems of Naju pear industry and suggests the counter measures to solve them. By doing so, this study aims to set the directions to the future to enhance competitiveness of Naju pear industry.

America was Korea's number one export country until 2002, but since 2003, China became the most important export country for Korea. Recently, the proportion of the import from China in the overall import has increased as well. Also, China is a huge market whose population takes more than 20.5% of the world's population, and taking the regional proximity into account, the profit of economic integration is expected to increase. However, due to many factors such as the features of the industrial structure, differences in the average income, agricultural problems, a variety of regulations, etc are holding back further study. This paper will compare and analyze the industry of Korea and China, evaluate their national competitive powers through various trade indexes, and analyze the overall economic effects in preparation for FTA between two countries. The negative effects of Korea-China FTA include the base-weakening of domestic agricultural and fishery industry and other incompetent industries, and many people worry that their market share will substantially decrease. Therefore, this study focused on analysis of agricultural and manufacturing industries, reviewed the pervasive economic effects of Korea-China FTA, and suggested possible countermeasures.