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A series of policy initiatives has been implemented to meet the basic needs of rural people and improve their quality of lives. Despite of such policy efforts, there still exist much disparity in public services provision between Urban and Rural Korea, as well as between rural areas of Korea and the advanced countries, which is still to be solved by Korean rural policy-makers. To top it off, it has been taken up that the established rural policy approaches need to be renewed to steer policy directions in rural development as a whole, and manage the objects of rural policy initiatives in detail, as well. Recently, introducing rural services standard is being considered as one of such new approaches in rural policy. This article proposes in rudimentary level of discussion Korean Rural Services Standard be introduced. Such a proposition is based on the fact that it is very important to set up the national minimum levels for provisions of certain core public services, so the government can make more accurate investment plans for rural development, and manage and supervise the outcomes of the policy investments. First, from the review of the preceding studies, we derive some common items as potential public services to be given national minimum levels of provision. Second, through data analysis of the common service items, we analyze the conditions of public services provision of rural areas in Korea. Third, we check up the problems concerned with current policy ways of public service provision. Fourth and lastly, we propose introducing Korean Rural Services Standard.

The purpose of this study is to analyse the planning process of Myeon Center Comprehensive Development Projects(MCCDP) and propose alternatives. The Ministry for Food, Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries(MFAFF) plans to set a pilot projects for MCCDP, which are pertinent. MCCDP invokes the process and scheme of Rural Village Comprehensive Development Project(RVCDP) and has some problems. One of the problems is that MCCDP of MFAFF and Small Town Developemt Project(STDP) of Ministry of Public Administration and Security(MPAS) are implemented as separate projects. As a result, development of rural center suffers inefficiency. We suggest desirable direction of MCCDP as follows: first, MCCDP and STDP should be integrated in a Rural Service Center Development Project. Second, MCCDP and a spatial development plan for city or county should be connected. Third, direction of MCCDP should be reshaped to fit the changing rural condition. Fourth, MCCDP should include more economic development programs or projects which are related with regional economy and be more flexible. Fifth, the formulation and promotion of the plan should be carried out in partnership.

The temperature of the Earth has been rising drastically this century, which result in global climate change. Global climate change has an influence on eco-system, industry, economy, and life style of people. IPCC reported that the average temperature of the Earth recorded 0.74°C rise last 100 years due to the increase in anthropogenic green house gas(GHG). To achieve a successful green growth in the rural sector, rural development policies should support the application of green technology to agriculture and rural area. It includes a paradigm shift of rural/agricultural policy. It is the purpose of this article to investigate the influence of climate change upon rural communities and agricultural eco-system, and to find the strategy and tasks for low-carbon green growth in rural sector. The main focus is on the application of a green technology to adapt agriculture and rural community to global climatic change.

As the supply of the industrial land shifts from the supplier’s market to the buyer’s market, the time-periodic, regional, and industrial inequality of supply and demand has emerged as the issues instead of aggregate problems. This study examines the regional industrial characteristics and raises a problem of the difference between industrial supply and market demand in the aggregate aspects by using the empirical data. The regional industrial characteristics are analyzed by using the number of industrial businesses and of employees, changes in production, location quotient analysis, and shift-share analysis. For demand estimation, net demand growth of plottage is estimated by using the method of a unit, and industrial aggregate demand and market demand were estimated excluding the unsold area and the planned area from the estimated value. As the result of the analysis, the supply of industrial lands is aggregately anticipated to be enough, but the additional demand centered on a growth industry is necessary for the analysis on the specified industry. In conclusion, the effective construction, supply, and management system of the industrial land are required to supply the customized industrial land for the desired location of the market.

This study deals with the analysis of local cities using multiple decline index in Korea. The goals are to model the dispersion and crater phenomena using the various social, economic and cultural data, and to find the relation between the dispersion and crater models using the cross tabulation analysis, In pursuing the above, this study gives the particular attention to finding the decline patterns of local cities. The main results analyzed are the followings. First, by the dispersion indices of multiple deprivation, 49 cities were classified into 4 groups, which are the decreasing, decreasing after increasing, wholly decreasing and the other pattern over time. Second, by the crater indices of multiple deprivation, 4 groups which were cratered, being cratered, wholly cratered and the other pattern over time were analyzed. Third, the relation between two indices were evaluated to have linear pattern. It is expected that this results can be used as a basic index for developing the urban regeneration strategies of local cities.

The Hampyeong Butterfly Festival is currently one of the most successful national festivals in Korea. In 2008, the festival celebrated its 10th anniversary and entered the international venue by hosting the Hampyeong Butterfly and Insect Expo. Naturally this brought focus from many researchers, and the festival also came up with many researched articles with results regarding its “success factors.” However, I think that most of the previous researches on this festival are restricted and one-dimensional perspective. They tend to be too micro-focusing on one theme such as the program of the festival or the tour aspect. In order to make up for this, this article views the festival from 1)an administrative view, 2)as a regional development policy, 3)a marketing perspective of each policy. Also to get a more steric conformation, the festival was divided by 'human infrastructure construction stage' 'festival opening stage' 'festival evolution stage', and analyzed the marketing characteristics of each stage. The factors dealt with in this article include 1)administrative service, 2)participation of citizen, 3)tourist incoming, 4)sales of industrial products for tourism, 5) RIS.

This study attempts to construct a regional computable general equilibrium (CGE) model to analyze the impact of increases in the import price of raw material such as oil and natural gas on the Incheon economy. The model structure is largely segmented into five equation blocks which include a regional output production and distribution block, a regional commodity production and distribution block, a household and government block, a capital market block, and a market clearing condition block. And the model is distinguished from other regional models in that interregional commodity flow is specifically incorporated in the model. In this paper, two scenarios for increasing rate of the import price of raw material are assumed. The simulation demonstrates that the 10% increase in the import price of raw material reduces GRDP of Incheon by 0.28%, raises the regional consumer price index by 0.30% and widens the Incheon's trade deficit by 4.43%.

The island responses sensitively about changes of the culture and ecology. It is impossible or will take more time and costs to restore the destroyed environment and natural landscape of the island. For developing and maintaining the island, it should understand the nature of the island in terms of tourism development. The alternative strategy for promoting the sustainable island tourism has been presented. Most of the parts of Cheongsando in Wando, Jeonlanamdo are designated national parks and a lot of restrictions on development rather than on the other hand, it has greatly contributed to preserve the natural environment and the excellent natural landscape. Recently, Cheongsando is to be known nationwide as locations of movies and dramas such as ‘Seopyeonje’ and ‘Spring Waltz’, and has an opportunity of changes to be selected as ‘You want to go to the Island’(by the Ministry of Culture, Sports, and Tourism) and ‘the Slow City’(by Slow City International Federation). The purpose of this thesis is to search for the strategy of sustainable island tourism using a Cheongsando’s case. According to the results of the survey of 400 tourists in Cheongsando, it has various distributions between age 20's and 50's across the country. Generally, visitors have negative opinions about accommodations, food, transportation, and tourism programs of Cheongsando. On the other hand, they have positive opinions and satisfactions about sightseeing tour in Cheongsando, and it shows very highly that they want to re-visit there. Tourists wanted to develop Cheongsando sustainably, for instances, preserving and maintaining the natural landscape, the environment of the island, and escaping from the original development way of tourism complexes or resorts. What tourists want is to realize the version for the future of Cheongsando, and escape from the tourism development way based on the existing thinking. It is necessary to be established and implemented strategies of sustainable tourism development for the island that it preserves and maintains the environment and the natural landscape.

The purpose of this study is to analyze centrality and diversity of the service local small towns supply in Korea. For this, in this study 178 small towns were classified by region(city region and county region) and by year(2000 and 2007) and were conducted paired t-test and correlation analysis. The main results of the research were arranged as follow. First, in centrality aspect of supplying service in the local small towns, it was higher in county region than city region. In the respect of recent 7 years change in centrality, only culture. sports services(1.00, t=2.52) showed a significant increase in city region while education services(0.09, t=2.05), culture. sports services(2.19, t=2.43), administrative service (1.70, t=3.32) showed significant increase in county region. Second, in the aspect of diversity in supplying service in the local small towns, the diversity was higher in the county region than city region. In the change in recent 7 years' diversity, culture. sports services(4.69, t=2.92), family rite service (11.22, t=3.24) showed considerable increase in the city region while there wasn't any filed which showed significant increase in county level local towns. Third, in the change in centrality and diversity in supplying service in local small towns, diversity increases rather than centrality in city region while centrality increase rather than diversity in county region. Fourth, the correlation analysis on centrality and diversity in supplying service in local small towns showed that there was a weak correlation between centrality and diversity in city region, and no correlation between centrality and diversity in county region. Puting those matter together, it's noticeable that county level local small towns carry on their role as the central base, but city level local small towns don't. Accordingly, local small town policy should be promoted with priority given to county region. And to reinforce local small towns' function, the diversity in supplying service should take precedence over the policy raising the centrality.

This paper reviewed previous research of changing characteristics of preliminary homeowners and borrow's reverse mortgage and to explore new changing from 1999 to 2009. The framework used in this study was binary logit model and a questionnaire survey from aged 40 to 60's preliminary homeowners in the Seoul Metropolitan Area. Major findings are as follows 1) The significant variables of a strong demand for reverse mortgage when they retired or become older, are marriage, higher education level, residential apartment, high concern of reverse mortgage. but not married children, higher age, more healthy, big size house are demonstrated a negative preference. 2) Many of the older(about 76.9%) are at risk of having insufficient resources in retirement, and they have owned over 30% as real estate resource. 3) The answer which have a positive preference to be use a reverse mortgage is clearly increased. 4) The willingness of passing their properties to next generation clearly improved for few years. 5) The reason which will not use reverse mortgage is because of resistance to reverse mortgage generally or more specific difficulties with the products that are available is unclear at this point. Reverse mortgages provide a means for elderly and aging to access their home equity while continuing to live in their homes. This could be an effective means for reducing poverty among the elderly. Due to the demographic development in Korea, it is better option for the government to improve the economic status of the aging population in the coming two decades, government might even supply promotion to spread nationwide rapidly.

This study aims at divulging basic structure and evolution mechanism of IT Industry knowledge network in Chungnam Province. In terms of methodological approaches, it analyzes formation of social network among joint research institutions, which have been initiated from Chungnam-based universities from 2005 to 2008. Major findings are as follows: First of all, even though the public organizations have strengthened major links of knowledge network, it cannot underestimate the latent force of the private sector as its participation rate is about 56.4%. Secondly, in Chungnam Province, sectors representing the upper centralities are confined to semiconductor and display. Presently, as they have been designated as brand-new growth engines by the central government, it is almost certain that their synergy effect would be expanded over time. Thirdly, compared with Chungnam-based organizations, comparatively higher participation rate comes from the Capital Region, encompassing both Seoul and Gyeonggi. In addition, the participation rate from Daejeon is almost same as that of Chungnam, explicitly indicating the fact that external, not internal, force still exerts more powerful impact. Nonetheless, judging from time-series data, internal linkages among Chungnam-based organizations have shown ever-increasing trends. In general, the overall IT Industry knowledge network in Chungnam Province has evolved from the linear patterns to the plural ones. Therefore, the-rich-get-richer and the poor-get-poorer mechanism has been ameliorated over the research period, implicitly implying that the vernacular IT network in Chungnam Province has rather randomly formulated, even without any 'tlagship' organization.

The goals of this study are to figure out the policy alternatives in order to promote the regional economic activities through analyzing the local festival in rural area. It analyzes the impacts on the local economic revitalization by the examining the correlations among the service quality, visitors' satisfaction, and loyalty of local Acacia Honey Bee Festival. The results of study showed that festival participation experiences, loyalty, and regional revitalization effected positively on visitor's satisfactions but festival facility and service were not related with them. As a result, local festival must focus on enhancing visitor's satisfaction through the improvement its service and attractive returning program. It will result in the successful local festival and regional revitalization.

There have been numerous debates and efforts on the matter in the importance of preschool education and the expansion of pre-school child-care facilities. In particular, the growth of women's labor force participation significantly requires the pre-school child-care facilities to accommodate preschool children and to provide suitable educational environments for them due to the nuclear family system. This emphasizes the importance of considering the spatial locations of pre-school child-care facilities to balance between clients and community requirements. The purpose of this study, therefore, is to evaluate the spatial and locational appropriateness of pre-school child-care facilities in Seoul, Korea. This study first carries out the legal and literature review in order to selecting the spatial factors and evaluating the spatial and locational appropriateness of pre-school child-care facilities. Data and statistical analyses are then conducted mainly based on GIS. The results of the study suggest more rational ways for appropriate decision making in systematic management of suitable types and spatial allocations of pre-school child-care facilities.

교통 사회간접자본시설의 효율적 공급은 세계적으로 중요한 대도시 문제이며 도시정책과제로 부각되어 있다. 많은 국가들이 도시 및 지역발전의 토대가 되는 교통, 전기, 상하수도, 통신 등 사회간접자본시설의 유지 및 관리와 확충에 지속적인 노력을 경주하는 실정이다. 한국도 과거 지속적인 공공투자로 교통분야 사회간접자본시설이 급증하였지만 사회복지 시스템의 유지.관리 및 실업의 증가 등으로 인하여 재정적인 부담이 가중되고 있다. 이러한 대책의 일환으로 정부는 전통적인 자금조달 방식을 탈피하여 교통 사회간접자본시설의 민간투자제도를 활성화시키기 위하여 BTO, BTL 방식을 도입하여 시행하고 있다. 그러나 과다한 통행수요 예측과 최저수입보장제로 인하여 공공부분에서 부담하여야 할 재정규모가 확대되면서 중요한 사회.정책적 관심사로 등장하였다. 상기한 배경 하에, 연구의 목적은 민간자본으로 건설.운영되는 민간투자 통행료 도로를 사례로 과다 추정된 통행료와 정부보조금을 분석하여 효율적인 개선방안을 강구하는데 있다. 주요 연구내용은 민간투자제도의 이론적 개념, 한국 PPPs 제도의 분석, 광주 2차순환도로에 대한 사례분석 및 결론 등으로 구성되었다. 교통 사회간접자본시설에 대한 민간투자제도의 성공적인 정착과 재정적인 부담의 완화방안을 모색하기 위하여 사례지역을 대상으로 수행한 결과, 통행수요예측에 대한 제도적인 문제 및 관련 자료의 결함에 대한 개선대책이 요망되었다. 또한 사례지역의 도로망은 도심지 통행여건 개선, 교통혼잡비용 감소 등의 효과를 가져왔으나 잘못된 통행수요 예측으로 인하여 지방정부의 재정부담을 수반하였으므로, 정부 보조금 정책에 대한 제도적 개선이 필요하다.