This paper suggests some indispensable factors in modification and supplements to our current laws as to regional planning and development system. In relation to this issue, this research attempts to analyze legal as well as theoretical problems as to...
This paper suggests some indispensable factors in modification and supplements to our current laws as to regional planning and development system. In relation to this issue, this research attempts to analyze legal as well as theoretical problems as to regional development policy and national physical plans in our country. As is generally known, Korea has achieved rapid economic growth during the last thirty years. The economic growth and its structural changes have resulted in significant changes in spatial structure.
Thus the central government has made various policies and measures continuously for growth control of major large cities for balanced regional development approach. But the National Physical Plans and the Capital Region Consolidation Plans could not achieved their goals. the 4th National Physical Plan has admitted the failure in the restrictions on physical development in the Capital region and the balanced national land development. In other words, the existing acts in Korea, e.g., the Capital Region Consolidation Act, the Balanced Regional Development Act, the Black Region Development Promotion Act, the Agriculture and Fishery Development Consolidation Act etc. have been proved not to meet their own aim, to have many problems.
Therefore in order to settle down the problems some supplements and revisions to the current regional development acts are needed as follows ; (1) unification and consolidation as to regional development acts, (2) reformulating land use planning system, (3) integration of acts as to regional development, (4) restoration of the coordination and democratization in planning system and (5) readjustment of regional development project systems.