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A Review of Trends and Tasks of Korea's Rural Life Improvement Programs - Lessons for Ethiopia - (한국의 농촌생활개선사업의 특징과 동향 - 에티오피아를 위한 제언 -)

  • Bereket Roba Gamo;Yoon-Ji Choi;Jung-Shin Choi;Joo-Lee Son
    • Journal of Agricultural Extension & Community Development
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    • v.29 no.4
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    • pp.265-280
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    • 2022
  • Rural life improvement has remained a key policy concern for the governments of most developing countries. However, developing countries mostly focused on agricultural productivity and technology development while implementing rural development policies. This paper was aimed at constructing the trends and identify the major tasks implemented through the rural life improvement programs in Korea and describing rural development efforts in Ethiopia after the Second World War. The data was generated through an intensive review of literature and focus group interview in Korea. The two countries in general and their rural areas in particular, were poor and almost similar initially. While the condition of rural Korea rapidly transformed since 1960s, rural Ethiopia has not yet experienced major improvement. Although different rural development efforts have been made in Ethiopia, erratic policies implemented by the different political regimes across time emerge to be one of the main factors behind the poor performance of the of the rural sector. Further, while the Korean government's rural development policy gave equal emphasis to improvement of agricultural production base as well as rural life improvement right from its inception, the Ethiopian rural development policy has rather neglected the rural life improvement aspect. Diversification of rural economy was also another priority area in Korea's rural development policy through agro-processing, rural tourism, and non-farm employment opportunities whereas this has not been the case in Ethiopia's rural development policy. We suggest some lessons that Ethiopia might adapt for its rural life improvement endeavors.

Study on Rural Living Environment and Satisfaction by Improving Rural Hosing Renewal Project (농촌주거환경개선사업에 따른 농촌주거환경실태와 주민만족도)

  • Kim, Sang-Bum;Cho, Soon-Jae;Kang, Bang-Hum;Kim, Hye-Min
    • Journal of Korean Society of Rural Planning
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    • v.9 no.3 s.20
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    • pp.9-16
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    • 2003
  • The aim of this study is to analyze the improvement of housing renewal project and suggest the conditions of rural housing environment filled with the resident's desire, requirements concerning about characteristics of a rural environment and temporal and social requirements. The project for improvement of rural housing environment has been executed in a few ways: reform of the rural housing environment and the development of territories for settlement of a desolate region. To analyze and assess the accomplishments, we considered codes and process related to the project for improvement of rural housing environment and analyzed present conditions and problems through many reference books and administrative data. According to these results, devices in future business for improvement of rural housing environment are as follows; It should required a rational allocation of working space, living space, cultural activity space suitable for rural area characteristics and changed into uniformed system in various projects governed by different institutions.

A Study on Characteristics and Leadership Performance of Rural Leaders (농촌리더의 특성 및 리더십역할수행 분석)

  • Park, Eun-Shik;Lee, Chae-Shik;Ko, Jeong-Sook;Hwang, Dae-Yong
    • Journal of Agricultural Extension & Community Development
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    • v.12 no.1
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    • pp.1-15
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    • 2005
  • The objectives of this study were to analyze characteristics and role performances of rural leaders and to verify leadership difficulties in organizing rural society. The data were collected from 273 rural leaders selected by stratified random sampling, and the SPSSWIN 10 was used for analyzing data. The major findings of this study were as follows; 1) Leadership role performances of rural leaders were higher than the average scores of non-leaders. 2) Men's leadership role performances were higher than women's except in facilitator role. 3) Leaders in city/county level were more successful in doing leadership performances than community level leaders. 4) Rural leaders were seeking other leaders for discussing problems in leadership. 5) The most difficulties of rural leaders were unconcerns and disinterest of rural people for community development.

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