21세기 문화관광자원의 민속학적 고찰

Abstract

In contemporary society traditional culture is closely linked with cultural tourism as well as leisure culture. Cultural tourism based on traditional culture is probably an important resource for leisure culture. In this respect, this paper looks into the relationship between leisure culture and possible resources for folk cultural tourism. A variety of perspectives are given, such as an insight into Buddhistic folklore, examples of modern historical novels motivated from old mythology, urban festivals such as Mongolian Naadam festivals in Korea etc. From these arguments some possible resources for folk cultural tourism which are newly emerging from leisure culture are derived. In addition, folk culture usually reflects people's every day living customs and daily practices, therefore folkloric contents in cultural tourism are surely to rise in interest for leisure culture today. Cultural tourism is one of the most basic elements in sustainable tourism in 21st society. In Korean society, for example, Buddhist folktales concerning local temples, ancient mythology and urban festivals are distinctive and distinguishable cultural elements which can be developed into attractions of cultural tourism today. Also the rapidly increasing number of tourists both from Korea and from abroad shows that cultural elements embedded into tourism are highly in demand. Once we deal with the sustainable development of cultural tourism, we have to consider cultural elements and contents in the context of traditional folk culture. This is because this sort of cultural tourism is directly linked with the most original cultural resources, which makes it distinctive to non-cultural based tourism. Thus, cultural tourism would be the most promising and effective form of tourism to draw attention of domestic as well as foreign tourists today.