마을만들기 사업의 지속성 제고에 관한 연구

Study on Enhancement of the Sustainability of the Village Creation Project - Focus on the Case of the Imsil Cheese Village

With the view that there are 4 compositional elements (principal, resources, organization, and activities) as the conditions for development of the rural community, this study analyzed the case of the Imsil Cheese Village by applying such elements, and summarized the developmental aspects and characteristics of the rural community. Specifically, conditions for the sustainability of the rural community were deduced first through case analysis in accordance with the revised endogenous development theory. Then, problems that have currently manifested over the course of achieving further sustained development of the Imsil Cheese Village were deduced for each of the conditions in order to analyze the structure amongst said problems. Through this process, it was possible to propose a direction to solve problems aimed at investigation of the factors that enabled the rural community to grow thus far along with the regeneration of the community. The Cheese Village, in spite of the numerous failures it experienced, managed to lead successful business activities with leaders who have undergone community education, playing their core roles in drawing out unification of the village residents through the village creation project. In summary, it can be concluded that ① unyielding resolutions of the principals, ② development and utilization of cheese as a new resource, ③ establishment of democratic decision making system, and ④ activities for making contributions towards the region were the factors that enabled continuity of the rural community. The structure of the currently inherent problems was analyzed in order to deduce the means of sustained growth in the future. As the result, it was found that it is urgent to solve these problems associated with the ‘principals’, including the aging of the residents and the absence of successors of the businesses in the village as issues with causative nature.