농산촌지역의 문화적 경관으로서의 계단식 논 보전에 관한 한일 비교연구

Abstract

Cultural landscapes are important assets for a nation and must be conserved to revitalize rural areas. This paper is a comparative study about conservation of cultural landscapes in Korean and Japanese rural areas. The purpose of this study is to provide future directions and strategies for conservation of Korean cultural landscapes. Accordingly, this study compares the characteristics of spatial structure and landscape components of rice terraces in Japan and Korea and clarifies the relation with a measures for both the conservation of rural landscapes and the changes in and conservation of production landscape elements. The subjects of this study are Obasute village in Japan and Gacheon village in Korea, designated as places of scenic beauty. As the result of comparative study, although many of the Korean rural areas are located in the slopes as a geographical characteristic, the decrease of farms is noticeable. Also, the responses are insufficient. And it is urgent to preserve as rice terraces. The landscapes of rice terraces form a Korean cultural landscape with a spatial structure created based on the unique culture according to the Fengshui Thought in which the rice terraces are surrounded by mountains to the north, water system on the south, and village in the center. Also, there can be 2 reasons for the loss of rice terraces: the negligence of cultivation and the change of land use by changing of farms to fields according to the national production support project. Although there is a temporary economic support for the production support organization according to the national policies, the improvement of the acknowledgement as a cultural landscape and preservation activities of the residents to preserve rice terraces are insufficient. As a result, it has been considered that to preserve the rice terraces as a Korean cultural landscape, along with maintenance and measures to utilize them as farms according to the zoning equipped with productivity and multi-dimensional functionality as farms, there is a need for local vitalization through administration and common program for residents and creating motivation to enhance the acknowledgement for preserving rice terraces landscape.