• The Journal of Learner-Centered Curriculum and Instruction (JLCCI)
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• v.22 no.1
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• pp.103-136
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• 2018

The Modern Total Property Theory is the social reform theory which emerged in the 2000s in Japan, which was suffering from the social issues similar to Korea - depopulation, aging society, centralization of metropolitan area, extinction risk of local provinces, and low growth. The theory aims to resolve social problems through the total property of spaces including land. The Modern Total Property Theory focuses on the issue of absolute land ownership. The absolute land ownership, which became the leverage of the economic growth after the Second World War, will not function properly in the future downsizing society. The existing ownership system functioned based on the premise that the value of land or buildings will be maintained or increase due to the existence of demand. However, large numbers of the ownerships that have no value will appear. However, since land or building cannot be touched even after they are let alone because they are bound by absolute ownership, the measure of turning the ownership of land or building into total property by establishing the subject of total property is being suggested. For this aim, the Modern Total Property Theory suggests that the bilateral relationship between state and individual be converted to the trilateral relationship among state, individual, and intermediate organization by inserting a middle clause in the modern law which is based on dual clauses - state and individual. Furthermore, since the Modern Total Property Theory is a macroscopic design for the reproduction of city and land and includes the legislation on the social policy level, it will provide the diagnosis and the prescriptions toward the social issues in Korea and adequate implications toward the reform direction of future social policies and judicial system.