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A Study on the Legal Status of Local Agricultural Extension Services (지방 농촌지도사업의 법적 지위에 관한 연구)

  • Song, Yong-Sup;Cho, Yeong-Cheol;Yun, Yeo-Hak
    • Journal of Agricultural Extension & Community Development
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    • v.6 no.1
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    • pp.1-13
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    • 1999

  • The objectives of this study were 1) to review legal status of local agricultural extension services during the last fifty years, 2) to propose enacting the new law for local agricultural extension services in Korea. Since Rural Development Act was established, the legal status of extension services was weakened in spite of the most important factor affecting agricultural extension services. It would be necessary to enact the new law prescribed organizational structures and objectives and missions, financial supporting, professional pesonnel management, etc., for development of local extension services after localization.

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Paradigm Shift for the 21st Century of Knowledge Information Era and Measures for Activating Agricultural Extension Services (21 세기 지식정보화시대 패러다임 전환과 농촌지도사업 활력화 방안)

  • Kim, Jin-Goon;Park, Sung-Joon
    • Journal of Agricultural Extension & Community Development
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    • v.7 no.2
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    • pp.279-288
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    • 2000

  • Agricultural extension services in Korea are faced with increasing demands for more efficient production and managerial technology according to globalization and free trade system. At the same time, three steps of organizational restructuring in 1998 and 1999 resulted in decreased number of organization and manpower, thus, resulting confusion in implementing extension services. To cope with the international and national challenges, Korean agricultural extension services should try paradigm shift including the followings; 1. To establish identity of agricultural extension services in Korea through making laws and regulations in terms of concept, roles, principles. implementation and methods. 2. To implement vitalizations plan through enhancement of national extension service such as food production. raising local specialty products for domestic consumption and producing strategic agricultural products for export. expanding capability of rural women, increasing opportunity for management consultation, supporting digital technology information, and promoting morale and capability of extension educators. 3. To reform agricultural extension system through adjusting the functions of extension service of the Rural Development Administration, regionalizing city and county extension center to provincial level, and changing the status of directors of extension centers from city /county to national government.

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