‘한계마을’의 사회경제적 특성에 관한 탐색적 연구: 충청남도 금산군 사례를 중심으로

Abstract

Marginal village' originally raised by Japanese scholars means the rural villages which are no longer sustainable as the rural community due to the aging and decreasing of rural population. Recently, in Korea also, discussion about the need of policies in cope with the possibility of disappearance of rural villages due to the same reasons with Japan was started. But, it is true that in our country there are almost no researches concerning the standards and characteristics of 'marginal villages'. Therefore, in this study, previously setting the standards of 'marginal village' by way of mixing both the standards of 'marginal village' in Japan and the standards of 'depopulation village' in Korea, and then, we tried to re-establish the standards and characteristics of 'marginal village' by in-depth study on the socio-economic characteristics of 'marginal village' in Korea, particularly throughout case study about targeted 8 provisionally marginal villages of Geumsan-gun, Chungcheongnam-do. Lastly, it is concluded that social characteristics such as social relationship and village people's willness for development are more important than physical factors such as distance from downtown and natural environments in setting the standards of 'marginal village' in Korea.