도서지역의 개발방향에 관한 연구 -어청도의 사례를 중심으로-

Abstract

Korea has maintained a growth-focused economic policy since the 1960s. As a result, the farming and fishing villages and islands regions outside of the axis of development could not escape from the policy alienation and a relative backwardness and an increase in uninhabited islands due to a rapid decrease in population progressed quickly as well. Islands regions remain in a limited region or a special region category because of sea-surroundedness, isolatedness and narrowness but they are significant not only because they provide a living space where island residents live in but also because of the production of things to eat, travel and leisure attractions, outpost of fishing industry, national security, the starting point of EEZ and the extensive expansion of land, etc. Thus, with the problem of islands, a conversion of perception should be made as into the undeveloped land which they has room for contributing to the growth and development of national economics rather than a regional issue of solving a regional gap. From this point of view, this study is intended to look to the progress of the policy of the islands development which the government has implemented thus far and the direction of the development of the Eocheongdo, Gunsansi. A far-away from the land, Eocheongdo is not easily accessible to and is disadvantageous to develop including a shortage of infrastructure. However, Eocheong Island has a natural landscape native to islands, the ample finny tribes in the neighboring seas and a rich history and cultural resources which only Eocheong Island has. If these resources are properly used well, the development of marine tourism is likely to be possible. In particular, the planning of a linkage to the development of the "Yellow Sea-rim International Marine Tourism Complex" being implemented around the neighboring islands would be enough to succeed.