This paper aims to establish the basic strategy for socio-economic development of Chonbuk Area. Regional economic policy has been major focus of attention in recent years for both policy makers and academics in Korea. However it is a general consensus...
This paper aims to establish the basic strategy for socio-economic development of Chonbuk Area. Regional economic policy has been major focus of attention in recent years for both policy makers and academics in Korea. However it is a general consensus that the regional economic development policies in Korea were seen as a component of the national economic development scheme without any local participation. This involves a wide variety of factors, including the strong sectoral policies of the central government, the lack of allocated resources and the specialists for regional economic policy, as well as a sensible regionalism.
From the beginning of the twentieth century down to this decade, the polices and methodologies of regional development have changed gradually in accordance with the shift of the developmental environment. Especially, since the end of the Second World war, developing countries have pursued national economic development and simultaneously regional development for the purpose of distributing economic activities spatially. This period was marked by economic rationalism based on the efficiency strategies and quantitative growth.
Hut, in the process of the economic development developing countries have confronted with many kinds of negative problems such as regional disparity, depression in the rural areas, population concentration and industrial polarization to the metropolitan areas, inequality of income and opportunities, environmental pollution and so on, Korea is too, and very serious. Particularly, our Chonbuk region was not only developed but also neglect during last three decades.
Our regional policies during last three decades have been characterized by rather simple nature compared with other heterogeneous countries, synchronization of local-central and regional-national problems, and spatial consequence of non-spatial policies which tend to minimize spatial policies.
I'll tell you the reasons as follows ;
1) applied to top-down approach by central-government
2) adapted theory of unbalanced growth
3) practiced to growth pole theory
4) carried out the strategy of industrialization
Chonbuk region had been degenerated into relative area of stagnation compared with other areas due to central-government regional policies and performance of '5 years' economic development plans Eventurally the gap between present growing regions is more over deepening through the compound geometrical functions of various factors that restrict regional development of economy.
Recently, with the reconsideration of the traditional regional development, a strong need for a substantial transfer in development philophy and regional development policy was felt by many concerned minds for continued future development.
With the advent of the local autonomy political system, regional planning policy should be changed to meet the needs of the new political environment. Regional planning which characterized the central-government oriented decision-making process. Thus, the needs and demands of the local people have been neglected in regional planning. The new regional planning should take into account the needs of the local people and allow their participation.
We must realize that even if the national, aggregate and efficiency oriented development is essential, development lacking the local, distributional, equality aspects has its limitations.
Finally, bottom-up development call for integrated spatial development, diversified and balanced growth, and focus upon the satisfation of basic needs at local and individual level.
An essential components of development strategy 'bottom-up' are ; activation of participation of a region's residents in every stage ; choice of regionally adequate technology and application of marginal resources ; rearing of territorial industry for full using of a region's natural resources, capitals, manpowers and human skills ; development of district town and locality town for urban-rural integration.
Consequently, as an alternative approach to regional development, bottom-up development was introduced. Therefore, the aims of this paper are to make the characters and significances, and to provide the basic strategy for socio-economic development of Chonbuk area.