Research Reports
Making a Livable Rural Areas
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AuthorSong, Miryung
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Publication Date2006.12.01
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The purpose of this study is to discuss vision and strategy of making rural area a desirable place to live. Plenty of arguments can be made on what makes rural area a livable place, but the study stresses what should be done at least to achieve the transition. To this end, the current status of rural areas and details of existing rural policies were analyzed, and based on the analysis future vision and strategy for rural areas were designed.
To make rural area a livable place, the central government should set out diverse and comprehensive policies. Government-wide cooperation is needed, and the measures under the special law for improving quality of living in rural areas should be consistently implemented. Meanwhile, policies should be proactively worked out and sought to attract urban citizens to rural areas. In addition, local government agencies should change their roles from the executers of the government-designed policy projects to the managers who can plan and realize region-specific development.
The biggest difficulty facing rural areas in pushing ahead with the initiative is the shortage of workforce. Therefore, it is needed to form a grand coalition among regional colleges, civic groups, and rural experts just like NPOs of Japan and LAGs of Europe, and to open new routes for their participation in the initiative.
Researchers: Song Mi-Ryung, Seong Joo-In and Park Kyong-Cheol
Research Period: 2006. 2. - 2006. 10
E-mail address: mrsong@krei.re.kr
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