It has not been long since the locally initiated regional promotion begun to take place in Korea. This paper overviews its development background and analyzes the various aspects of Regional ...Innovation Systems (RIS). Regional self-reliance has been suppressed due to the following: the extended national isolation followed by the chaotic conditions of the post war period and the long lasted monarchy under which people endured and sacrificed their living for strengthening the fragile national power. The high economic growth in 1970' s made people aware of the importance of regional self-reliance. Along with the industrialization, the pursuit of regional identity in the international community has become a prime concern. The former president, Mr. Noh Moohyun, an advocator of "Participatory Government", aimed to create RIS supported by the strengthened residents' promotional power. This RIS, currently expanding in many regions in Korea, is not necessarily realizing all the elements of endogenous development. However, it shows one of the clear future directions of self-reliant regional development in Korea and thus encourages the active participation of designers.
This paper is the second report of a basic study on the inter-regional cooperation based on the theory of endogeneous development. It takes three municipalities in the northeastern part of Yamanashi ...Prefecture, Enzan City, Makioka-cho and Mitomi-mura, as the fields of research. This study aims to work out the measures for regional revitalization through rediscovery and re-recognition of regional resources based on a fieldwork and to examine the functions of inter-regional cooperation. This research do the following process to establish the measures for regional revitalization; (1) developing eight Basic Principles concerning regional development, with regional resources at its center, as a guideline for regional revitalization, (2) developing Practical Models as an embodiment of these principles, on the premise that each party plays its own role, and (3) as activities based on the Practical Models proceed, multiple Basic Principles, all of which are closely connected to each other through Practical Models, will be attained, which brings realization of regional revitalization based on inter-regional cooperation that embraces these three municipalities all together. In these measures, inter-regional cooperation works as the following; (1) each one of the residents has a role to play, (2) regional revitalization is based on reconfirmation and re-recognition of the life culture on the whole, (3) regional resources shall be preserved and created as a regional identity, and (4) untapped regional resources shall be put into use to create variety of products.
This paper discusses the Inter-Regional Cooperation based on Endogeneous Development that take place in three places located in Northeast Tochigi Prefecture; Kuroiso City, Nasu-machi, and ...Kurobanemachi. In the beginning, it research the local residents' wishes through the fieldwork and interview survey. This research planned the common theme,"Suijunkyc (water circulate homeland) that nurtures, flows and creates life", which the"water"as the one of main natural resources that holds the area together. According to the theme, the area can be considered as three"Sato", which exist together as a livelihood system. And they are not constrained by usual administration system. The three"Sato"means"Sato where the water begins","Sato where the water gathers",and "Sato where the water flows"and set the activities that reflect each concept of space. The area exist as a whole activities of each space and the local cooperation accomplished beyond common administration reel. The regional cooperation beyond the administration reel is achieved by basis of the endogeneous development theory. Furthermore, this cooperation become an efficient strategy to make a sustainable society in future.
