Changing Rurality of the Countryside in Seoul Metropolitan Area

수도권 농촌의 기능 변화와 지역구조

Since 1990s, the countrysides in Seoul Metropolitan Area have been exposed to the unprecedented forces like developing telecommunication technology, the boom of exurban housing, increasing concern about food quality. While these new forces are restructuring the social and spatial pattern of countryside, a legal regulation can be assumed as exerting an overarching moulding power. This paper shows how the legal regulation works in the restructuring rurality.