Evaluation of the Cultural(Collective) Village Development Projects in Rural Area and It's New Policy Guidelines -With Respect to the Cases of Gongju Gyeryong, Chungnam Province and Hyeongsung Ucheon, Kangwon Province-

농어촌지역(農漁村地域) 문화(文化)(집단(集團))마을 조성사업(造成事業)의 평가(評價)와 추진방향(推進方向) - 충남공주계롱지구(忠南公州鷄籠地區)와 강원횡역우천지구(江原橫域隅川地區)를 중심(中心)으로 -

The gap of the quality of life and living environment between urban and rural area have been widened since the industrialization and urbanization oriented five year economic development plans started in 1963. To mitigate the gaps, Korean government had commenced the cultural(collective) village development projects, as a pilot cases such as Gyeryong and Ucheon projects from 1991. This paper contains first the concepts of cultural village, types of village formation, types of village development, allocation problems of housing sites, procurement of project costs and other problems experienced during constuction of the projects. The main policy guidelines for the successful development of cultural villages are as follows: 1. Cultural village development should be carried out in coincide with the present status of farm household incomes. 2. The countermeasures should be consistant with the general objective of the cultural village development institutionally. 3. Propaganda of the cultural village development in rural area is prerequisite to success the projects. 4. Favourable terms and conditions of credit loans as loan amount of 30 million won with interest rate of 3% per annum and 25 years repayment period including 5 years grace period should be given by the Government. 5. Special benefits in the tax system should be given to rural peoples in the cultural villages. 6. The cultural village development should be classified into two groups as the cultural village development in rurban area and the cultural village development in rural area.