The problem of unemployment due to the business restructuring in Korea has become most important social issue since the currency crisis of 1997. The labor world has demanded job sharing for employment stability and the discussion on forty-hour working...
The problem of unemployment due to the business restructuring in Korea has become most important social issue since the currency crisis of 1997. The labor world has demanded job sharing for employment stability and the discussion on forty-hour working week has risen on the ground that Korea is the only state that has not carried out five-day working week system in the OECD group.
The labor standard act which is made through many disputes between the various social groups will be implemented from the September the 15th of 2003 to 2011.
As forty-hour working week has been in effect, it is estimated that the quality of urban worker's life would be improved, but agricultural people would have many hard troubles because of the low competitive power of agricultural product in international market. therefore Green tourism polycy that would improve the incomes of rural people is demanded as one of the alternatives.
The main groups which will drive the agricultural tourism are agricultural community, central government, local government and NACF. The agricultural tourism should be boomed up through policies which would harmonize with natural environment of rural area.
The farmhouse income programs in Korea are Green-tourism, Farm-stay, Weekend-farm, Private House Lodging and so forth.
The principal policies of advanced countries that have already carried out five-day working week system are agricultural income policy in EU, rural tourism supporting policy in France and German, The successful cases of the foreign countries are the theme parks project in the U.S.A and Europe, the small-town tourism in Japan, and the cases of festival programs in Canada.
Rural tourism supporting polices in France, German, England, and Japan and successful cases of conventional culture and festival programs in Japan could be connected to the development of the related polices in Korea.
A lot of changes have risen socially and agriculturally in Korea after the execution of five-day working week system. With the increasing demands on healthful and harmless agricultural products, the theme tours like green tourism are also on the increase. The bases for success of green tourism are development of proper polices, promoting related institutions, cultivating and training human resources, and building comprehensive informational system and so on.