2002•JOURNAL OF RURAL PLANNING ASSOCIATIONOpen access

A Study on the Level and Direction of Rural Development in the Hilly and Mountainous Villages of Korea.

Youngjoo Kim, Tsuyoshi Takahashi, Soo‐Myung Choi

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This study was conducted to find out the solutions to improve the troubles in Hilly and Mountainous villages whose living Standard is low, and to reconstruct those villages into new space for living. Several villages around Mt.JIRI among Hilly and Mountainous villages of Korea which were already examined in 1988 were chosen for this study. As the results of this study, we analyzed the changes of consciousness on the shift of the level of living condilions, depopulation, direction of development, and then confirmed the subject in order to improve the Hilly and Mountainous villages in future.

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Key concepts: Geography, Socioeconomics, Living space, Standard of living, Environmental protection, Demography, Residence, Sociology