The rural center village revitalization project is implemented to provide basic living services on medical, education, culture, welfare and economy fields that are directly related to the quality of life of residents in the location of municipalities(eup, myeon) that can connect adjacent urban areas and farming and fishing villages and to improve connectivity with surrounding villages to cope with the decrease in population, the aging society and the transition into the open type of settlement system. However, after it was reorganized as the rural center revitalization project recently, there is an opinion that the nature of the project was changed to solve long-time aspired projects of some districts unlike various projects according to the previous project purposes. Accordingly, there are some districts that can''t create project effects due to poor project execution.
Therefore, this study analyzes the current status of revitalization project plans and operation monitoring to make sustainable rural center villages, establishes plans that can be applied to the rural center village revitalization project and suggests the improvement plans for monitoring.
In the result of comparing and analyzing project items per each function·type of preliminary and master plans in 8 case districts of Gyeongnam, the classification of each function doesn''t show big project cost change ratio, but the result of analyzing specific project details shows big project cost change ratio in preliminary and master plans. Especially, the ratio of rural landscape improvement cost in 6 districts has decreased and the ratio of welfare and infrastructure cost has increased.
In addition, in the result of comparing and analyzing the resident demand survey and the ratio of each item''s project cost in the 8 districts to investigate whether the resident demand survey was well reflected to the master plan, most residents in the 8 districts have high demand on welfare and infrastructure facilities(culture, welfare and convenience facility), and in the master plan, the ratio of project cost on welfare and infrastructure facilities is high.
With the necessity of connectivity with centrality analysis for long-term and sustainable growth of the rural center revitalization project, the analysis on the 8 districts'' centrality analysis and the function of the master plan were compared and analyzed, but there is not enough interrelation. In the establishment of the master plan, relatively high ratio of project expenses was input in welfare and infrastructure fields, but projects relevant with function of trade insufficiently presented in the centrality analysis were hardly reflected.
A survey was done on the participants of the projects with 14 questions of 4 categories. The most difficult part that those in charge of the project felt is ''lack of residents'' cooperation and understanding(57.9%)'' followed by ''various regulations and administrational support(16.8%)’, ''lack of experience(10.6%)’ and ''security of site(6.2%)''. Meanwhile, 96.5% respondents said the project is helpful, 31.9% answered very helpful and 64.5% answered relatively helpful. Regarding the fields helpful for regional development, 72.5% answered the project of ''expansion of basic living foundation''. Regarding the main body of operation of the established facilities by the project, 78.8% answered it should be operated by the operation committee.
Regarding the consulting methods for weak districts to activate facility operation after the project is implemented, the field consulting performed by the collaboration of Gyeongsangnam-do government, Gyeongnam Rural Revitalization Support Center and Gyeongnam branch of Korea Rural Community Corporation shows 87.6% of satisfaction level, which indicates it is the most effective.
Based on the above results, it is necessary to reinforce the methods on resident demand survey, dimension and the reflection process of the project when preliminary plans are established for effective implementation of the rural center village revitalization project. It is also necessary to revise relevant standards not to change preliminary plans excessively during the master plan establishment process, and to oblige preliminary investigation of experts. In addition, the result of centrality analysis should be reflected to the master plan project details, but if there is difficulty due to budget problems, it should be specified with connected projects, so that the master plan of the relevant rural center revitalization project can be a long-term development plan. The joint monitoring and consulting systems of experts and local governments should be applied from the establishment stage of the master plan, so that it can be sustainable rural center village revitalization project.