農業者 利益代瓣制度의 本質, 現況, 그리고 課題 = Nature, Present Status and Tasks of the Farmers' Representative Interest-Group Institution

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

This paper is basically a systematically expanded and refined one, the original version of which was presented for discussion only at a research institute in Seoul in the summer of 1985. The general or overall purpose of this paper is to examine the nature, present situation, and prospective tasks of the farmer's representative interest-group institution in Korea.
Firstly, a brief introduction is made to emphasize the need and significance of the study, probably the first of its kinds ever conducted and published in Korea as far as systematically-treated academic papers on the theme are concerned, relatively speaking. Secondly, some conceptualized general-type insights and implications are preliminarily derived and presented for the representative interest-group institution in general terms which is in existence and functioning in any democratic and capitalistic countries. Thirdly, an overview-type examination is made of the farmers' attributes and status, and their paternalistic interest-group organizations in Korea. Fourthly, highly selected three major farmers' organizations which might be relatively considered as the farmers' representative interest-group organizations in action, when and if viewing from essentially normative or "expected" points, are analytically examined as concisely as possible:(a) National Agricultural Cooperative Federation, (b) Korean Association for Advanced Farmers, and (c) Catholic Farmers' Association. Fifthly, some development tasks are projected for the Korean farmers' representative interest-group institution, and finally, sixthly, a conclusion is made to close the paper.
The most important generalization in the form of a conclusion of this paper is, as implicitly hypothesized, the fact that there are hardly any "true"or "full-fledged" farmers' organizations found today whose functions are in line with the so-called "political interest groups". The Catholic Farmers' Association only does some activities of this nature which, however, have been harshly controlled by the government authorities under the existing laws and regulations. Since the "true"or "near-true" farmers' representative interest-group institution as a whole cannot be thought of separately or exclusively of the national development status in terms of genuine democratization which, however, only selected advanced countries can afford to enjoy today. Consequently, the so called "time-place qualification" should be duly taken into consideration: Korea is making a rapid progress towards this development though slow and steady. Therefore, institutionalization and appropriate functions of the farmers' representative interest-group organizations or institution may not be found in Korea in the very near future while the farmers are recently pressed down so severely that they have to have their own strong political voices or demands felt and reflected in the government political decision-making process in their behalf primarily to have an appropriate allocation of the national resources available for mobilization today.