한국새마을운동의 전개과정과 방향

Abstract

The Saemaeul(New village in Korean) Movement was a spiritual and modernization movement that had focused on overcoming Korea's social and economic difficulties basing its philosophy on “we can do it”. This study focuses on describing development of the Saemaeul Movement by stages and new directions. Development of the Saemaeul Movement is classified and described in four stages. 1st stage(1970-1979) for the rural modernization and poverty reduction efforts by the government reflect the characteristics of the town with the New Village project was developed. 2st stage(1980-1989) of the cooperation systems through public-private the Saemaeul Movement was developed by the National spiritual exercise. 3st stage(1990-1999) transformed into the Saemaeul Movement was developed as private service organization. 4st stage(2000-2009) the Saemaeul Movement has been attracting great attention as a unique Korean-style and successful development of rural society as well as a role model for underdeveloped countries. New core spirits of the Saemaeul Movement customized to environmental changes should be established and enhanced in order to continuously specify the movement and thus improve the movement to a new national movement. All of the following initiatives should carried out together; 1) establishment of green the Saemaeul Movement, 2) connections of the Saemaeul Movement and local autonomy 3) distribution of social capital and internationalization.