1. Background and Purpose
1) Background
■ Refining the institutional framework for establishing and operating marine healing facilities is essential for promoting marine healing activities and systematically fostering related industries, as these fa...
1. Background and Purpose
1) Background
■ Refining the institutional framework for establishing and operating marine healing facilities is essential for promoting marine healing activities and systematically fostering related industries, as these facilities provide the foundation for implementing and disseminating marine healing policies.
- Marine healing facilities are a key policy tool and medium for achieving the goals of marine healing policies, and currently, six such facilities are in operation or under development.
- Given the absence of clear legal or policy provisions defining the scope and types of marine healing facilities, establishing a legal and institutional framework to enable systematic and effective policy support is now an urgent priority.
2) Relevance to National Projects
■ This study contributes to coastal economic revitalization, enhanced public health and welfare, and expanded coastal and marine tourism infrastructure by developing policy, legal, and institutional improvements for marine healing facility establishment and operation.
- This study serves as policy resource material to support the revitalization of fishing village and coastal economies and tourism infrastructure development. This contributes to cultivating thriving agricultural and fishing communities and advancing toward a creative cultural society by enhancing both the systematic framework and practical implementation of marine healing policies.
3) Purpose
■ The purpose of this study is to propose policies related to the development and operation of marine healing facilities to promote marine healing, as well as amendments to the Act on the Management and Utilization of Marine Healing Resources.
- Systematic policies and legal and institutional improvements are essential for marine healing facility establishment and operation. These developments lay down the infrastructure for marine healing promotion and strengthen policy implementation.
2. Methodology
1) Academic Methodology
■ This study employs a mixed-methods approach incorporating legal and literature analysis alongside qualitative methods to comprehensively analyze the scope and types of various marine healing facilities.
- A comprehensive literature review examines healing policies and resources across the forestry, marine, agriculture, and tourism sectors, encompassing statistical data, legal regulations, academic literature, and policy reports.
- This study employs qualitative research methods, including expert consultations in marine healing, coastal and marine tourism, tourism policy, architecture, and development, as well as inter-ministerial policy council discussions. These methods inform the development of policies and amendments to laws and regulations concerning marine healing facility establishment and operation.
- To enhance the systematic organization and practical implementation of policies and reforms regarding marine healing facilities, this study employs a complementary approach incorporating both quantitative and qualitative research methods. These methods include literature reviews, expert surveys and consultations, and stakeholder interviews with marine healing center personnel.
2) Policy-making Methods
■ Conducted in response to government policy research needs, this study developed legal, institutional, and policy recommendations through coordination meetings held at each research stage with the Ministry of Oceans and Fisheries and local governments establishing marine healing centers.
- This research was selected as an urgent priority task for advancing national policy on critical ocean and fisheries issues and was carried out as an independent study.
- Through policy coordination meetings with the Ministry of Oceans and Fisheries, the commissioning agency, the research scope and objectives were clarified, and policy alternatives responsive to field-level needs were formulated.
- Legal and institutional reforms and policy recommendations were refined through stakeholder coordination meetings with local governments establishing marine healing centers, ensuring alignment with practical implementation conditions.
■ Legal, institutional, and policy improvement measures are developed by incorporating expert opinions from marine healing, coastal and marine tourism, tourism policy, architecture, and development fields.
- Policy recommendations are refined through consultations with academic and policy researchers from universities and national research institutes, as well as specialists from relevant private organizations.
3. Result
1) Summary
■ Public interest in marine healing continues to rise in line with growing demand for rest and wellness experiences in natural environments.
- In response to growing policy demand for marine healing, the government has established legal, institutional, and policy frameworks to foster the marine healing sector as a new growth driver for coastal and marine tourism.
- However, the absence of clear legal provisions defining the scope and types of marine healing facilities necessitates addressing legal and institutional gaps to ensure systematic implementation of marine healing promotion policies.
■ Legal, institutional and policy improvements for marine healing invigoration are needed through systemic reforms in marine healing facility establishment and operation.
- To strengthen the policy foundation for marine healing industry development, legal, institutional, and policy improvements must systematize policies while enhancing their operational effectiveness.
■ The scope and types of marine healing facilities are clearly defined through enactment and revision of the Act on the Management and Utilization of Marine Healing Resources and subordinate legislation.
- The study proposes amending definitional provisions for marine healing facilities in the Act on the Management and Utilization of Marine Healing Resources and establishing new articles on facility types and marine healing centers in the Enforcement Decree.
- New provisions on marine healing centers are added to the Enforcement Rules. Supplementary provisions in the Enforcement Decree stipulate that government supported facilities already established or under construction are deemed to satisfy marine healing center designation requirements.
- The Enforcement Decree’s annexed tables specify detailed categories and types of marine healing facilities, clarifying facility concepts and operational scope.
■ The policy foundation for marine healing industry development is strengthened through enhanced facility utilization and practical policy implementation.
- The designation of marine healing villages is expanded, and the establishment of marine healing service networks linking marine healing villages with marine healing facilities is promoted.
- Financial support schemes for facility establishment and operation need to be developed, facility development and operational standards established, and a registration system for marine healing service operators (tentative) implemented.
- Healing policy councils are reorganized, while organizations for marine healing policy promotion and support are expanded and strengthened.
2) Policy Recommendations
■ This study presents enactment and amendment proposals for the Act on the Management and Utilization of Marine Healing Resources and its subordinate legislation to ensure systematic and effective implementation of marine healing policies.
- Amendments to the definition of marine healing facilities in the Act on the Management and Utilization of Marine Healing Resources are proposed, along with new articles regarding marine healing facility types in the Enforcement Decree.
- Provisions related to marine healing centers are explicitly incorporated into the Enforcement Decree and Enforcement Rules, while draft proposals for the specific categories and types of marine healing facilities are presented in the annexed tables of the Enforcement Decree.
■ This study proposes measures to expand marine healing village designations and improve institutional systems to promote marine healing facility utilization.
- The proposals include establishing and expanding marine healing service networks by integrating marine healing villages and facilities, and developing financial support mechanisms for these facilities. They also encompass establishing facility development and operational standards and implementing a registration system for marine healing service providers (tentative name).
■ This study proposes strengthening the effectiveness of healing policy council operations and promoting the expansion and functional enhancement of organizations for marine healing policy promotion and support.
- A collaborative policy framework is proposed that leverages each ministry’s policy domain and strengths through participation from marine healing (Ministry of Oceans and Fisheries), forest healing (Korea Forest Service), healing agriculture (Rural Development Administration), and healing tourism (Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism).
- To secure a sustainable foundation for marine healing policy implementation, the expansion of organizations promoting and supporting marine healing policies and the establishment of effective and efficient policy governance structures are proposed.
■ This study presents legal, institutional, and policy recommendations for improving the establishment and operation of marine healing facilities.
- Through policy coordination meetings with the Ministry of Oceans and Fisheries-the commissioning agency-and local governments establishing marine healing centers, legal, institutional, and policy improvements for facility establishment and operation are discussed.
- Improvement measures are developed through consultations with experts, including officials from the Ministry of Oceans and Fisheries, personnel responsible for marine healing initiatives in local governments establishing marine healing centers, researchers in marine healing, coastal and marine tourism, and tourism policy, as well as stakeholders related to marine healing centers.
4. Expected Outcomes
1) Policy Effects
■ Through the formulation of institutional reform measures for marine healing facility establishment and operation, this study contributes to reinforcing the policy infrastructure for marine healing promotion and related industrial advancement.
- The presentation of legal, institutional, and policy reform measures enhances both the systematic framework and practical implementation of marine healing policies.
- By proposing legal, institutional, and policy reforms to promote marine healing, the study helps establish a policy environment that increases public interest in coastal and marine tourism and broadens citizen participation.
2) Social and Economic Effects
■ Through systematic organization of marine healing-related legal, institutional, and policy frameworks, this study contributes to expanding the coastal and marine tourism industry base and promoting public welfare.
- By presenting improvement measures for marine healing facility establishment and operation systems, this study establishes legal foundations and institutional frameworks for systematic implementation of marine healing industry promotion policies.
- This study strengthens the practical implementation of marine healing policies to improve public health and welfare while contributing to the sustainable growth of the coastal and marine tourism industry centered on coastal regions.