농촌형 주민자치센터의 발전방안에 관한 硏究

Abstract

Since the inauguration of the autonomous local administration by the election, the local administrations began to be operated centering around city, county or ward, while the roles of such lower offices as "up", "myon" or "dong" have weakened gradually. The Ministry of Administrative Autonomy announced that "dong" offices in the urban area would be reshuffled until the year 2000, and that "up", "myon" and "dong" offices in the rural area would be subject to reform until 2001. Under such circumstances, it is deemed necessary to study the roles of villagers' autonomous centers and their specific programs. Rural regions lack such infrastructures as roads and traffic facilities, while each region has its own historic and cultural characteristics. Moreover, the rural regions are wider and sparser than urban areas, and therefore, it is very difficult to invite the people to the administration. In short, local people are less aware of the autonomous centers. The announcement that reform of "up" and "myon" offices in rural areas would be delayed than in urban areas may well be attributable to such conditions. This study focuses on the model county Yangju-gun of Kyonggi do; all the 7 "ups" and "myons" were designated as model autonomous centers as of May 3, 2000, and they were all converted into villagers' autonomous centers in December, 2000. Currently, each "up" or "myon" of Yangju-gun has its own characteristics as well as different social welfare facilities and infrastructures. In consideration of such unique autonomous centers, this study explored the ways to help develop differentiated autonomous centers in the rural areas. The results of this study can be summarized as follows; First, the villagers' autonomous committee should be reformed to invite more women and youth as well as various spontaneous public groups and meetings, public organization representatives and villagers' autonomous center program subscribers. Then, the committee would be able to play a pivotal role for villagers' autonomous center. Second, managers (full-time manager and volunteers) need to be fostered and educated. Third, a favorable environment should be created, while the financial resources he arranged. Any good system cannot be operated effectively without a good environment. In this regard, the public services mandated to the county administration should not be mandated again to "up" or "myon" offices. Fourth, a network between public, private and autonomous center needs to be constructed in order to facilitate the exchange of information and share experiences among them. First of all, Internet homepages need to be constructed for each villagers' autonomous center, and these homepages be linked with each other. In short, a cyber network should be constructed covering all the autonomous centers. Then, the autonomous centers can exchange programs with each other; a program contest may be designed to help develop better programs. In addition, in order to promote the information communication culture of the rural areas falling behind the urban areas, more public relations and education programs need to be developed for the rural autonomous centers. Lastly, since many villagers say that they cannot attend the programs provided for by the autonomous centers, it is deemed necessary to introduce a lecturer dispatch system and a remote education program for them.