1960~70년대 수자원개발 정책 하 안동다목적댐의 건설 추진 과정과 성격 = The Construction Process and Characteristics of the Andong Multipurpose Dam under South Korea’s Water Resource Development Policies in the 1960s-70s

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

Initially proposed in the 1950s as a single-purpose hydropower project, the Andong Dam was re-envisioned in the 1960s under South Korea’s multipurpose water resource development agenda. Though delayed by ministerial disputes and funding challenges, it was revived through the Ten-Year Water Resources Development Plan (1966–1975), with financing from Korea’s claims against Japan and later an ADB loan. Construction began in 1971 and was completed in 1976 as the country’s first pumped-storage multipurpose dam.
The Andong Dam exemplifies key features of South Korea’s 1960s–70s water policy: a shift in viewing rivers as economic assets; the entanglement of policy with geopolitical and domestic political strategies; and persistent institutional shortcomings and critiques of rural sacrifice. This case situates the dam within broader state-led infrastructure expansion and economic development, offering critical insight into the political dynamics, policy narratives, and contradictions that shaped South Korea’s postwar modernization.