The severe disparity between the urban and the rural areas is emerging as a major problem in Korea. This study analyzes the impact of rural industrialization on regional rural economy and offers one of the possible solutions to eliminate this problem....
The severe disparity between the urban and the rural areas is emerging as a major problem in Korea. This study analyzes the impact of rural industrialization on regional rural economy and offers one of the possible solutions to eliminate this problem.
The questions are raised with special emphasis given in the area of farmhouse for this study, and the result of the study can be summarized as follows ;
1. 16.7% of the farmers are employed in the suburbs of the rural industrialization area and 5.1% in the outlying suburbs. 45.3% of their offsprings in the country are employed in the suburbs and 21.9% in the outlying suburbs.
2. The income in the suburbs of the rural industrialization area is 1.63 times higher than in the outlying suburbs.
3. The proportion of the cash crop to the food crop is 16.5% in the outlying suburbs and 55.5% in the suburbs.
Rural industrialization leads to the increase of employment in the rural area, which in turn leads to increased income and reduction in workfolk's rural exodus. In addition, rural industrialization improves the labor productivity and increases the agricultural income by changing the product structure from food crop to cash crop.