韓国における住民参加型まちづくり実施の可能性 ‒韓日の住民参加型まちづくりワークショップを事例として‒

Abstract

It has been noted that region development has been on the decline for quite some time. When discussing “regional development activities”, the use of the word “activity” seems an overstatement. Debates, reflecting various points of view, on how to revitalize regional development have been going on throughout South Korea. Also in South Korea, the viewpoint of “citizens’ Citizen Participation” has become the central argument. But, since the history of the citizen participation in municipal affairs within South Korean is short, there are few precedence examples which serve as a sample. In this research, the citizen participation in municipal affairs type workshop was held in both South Korea and Japan using the workshop technique of Japan with many regional vitalization examples by citizens’ participation. Comparison examination of the state of the citizen participation in municipal affairs of South Korea and Japan was carried out through two workshops. In this examination, analysis was conducted from the viewpoint of the influence in which national traits have to the difference in the view of both South Korea and Japan to citizen participation in municipal affairs and activities. As information acquired from that, when building a plan as a group, Japanese people set up a clear target, and build the scenario intentionally in a group making agreement formation possible. On the other hand, South Koreans could only build the scenario as a notional expression, but agreement formation within a group was difficult. However, when there was a person of administrator in the group, was a tendency for easy agreement formation.