While many countries have adopted a policy of parks as public institutions, Korea's policy has it that parks are nationalized institutions by local area, which are selected and managed based upon limited public access, and thus, it has causes discomfo...
While many countries have adopted a policy of parks as public institutions, Korea's policy has it that parks are nationalized institutions by local area, which are selected and managed based upon limited public access, and thus, it has causes discomfort to the residents inside the park areas. Therefore, this study is aiming at examining the inconveniences of the residents inside parks and the present state of the visitors to national parks and coming up with solutions to reduce the inconveniences and support their life.
The results of analyzing the inconveniences of the residents inside parks show that the inconveniences are caused by 'strict control on developments,' 'decrease in land price and living
environment lagging behind,' 'wrong designation by the authority,' 'continunous conflicts between property rights and park's management rights,' 'gaps in living environment due to the restricted development area,' 'ambiguous licensing standards for national parks and dualistic procedures,' 'lack of promotion in case of relieved licensing standards,' 'uniformed approval standards,' and 'possible bureaucratic administrations,' etc.
In the meantime, the results of the current state of visitors show that they have high level of awareness of the laws on national parks and natural parks, but they hold negative views on the charges for national park restoration.
Therefore, this study suggests solutions to reduce inconveniences of the residents inside parks and support their life as follows: First, the central government and national park corporation take charge of the overall management of national parks, but they allow interventions from local governments. Second, there should be improvements in approving uses by specific area and opening and running stores in the procedures of licensing and approving national parks. Third, supports should be given for the infrastructures for residents' living, increase in residents' income and residents' common resources.