Recently, as the importance of the architectural and structural heritage of the Japanese colonial era has been recognized, the need for preservation is increasing accordingly.
The modern agricultural heritage of the Japanese colonial era located in rural areas is often lost or demolished due to road expansion or construction of new agricultural facilities. Nevertheless, the facts about the destruction or demolition are not well known, and the modern agricultural heritage of the Japanese colonial era is disappearing due to various developments without our knowledge.
The modern agricultural heritages of the Japanese colonial era are facilities necessary for agriculture and are in a relatively good state of preservation, and since they are still used for their original purposes, the need to systematically manage and preserve the existing modern agricultural heritages of the Japanese colonial era is increasing.
Therefore, in this study, despite the important agricultural cultural heritage of Korea''s modern period (the Japanese colonial period), it is identified the reason and actual condition of not being properly managed or protected, and at the same time, it is effective to prevent the existing modern agricultural heritage from disappearing without a trace. We would like to suggest ways to preserve and utilize them.

The spatial scope of this study was set around the Nakdong River and Junam Reservoir in Dong-eup and Daesan-myeon of Changwon-si, where the land readjustment project was carried out during the Japanese colonial period, around Baekyang-deul (formerly Jinyeong Murai Farm), and Songyong-deul. And the temporal scope was limited to the modern agricultural heritage built during the Japanese colonial period.

In the process of the dissertation, the target areas and types of modern agricultural heritage in the Japanese colonial era were classified through literature research such as reports, press releases, and dissertations. Through previous studies, conservation methods were classified into original preservation, partial restoration, and repair preservation, and local preservation and transfer conservation depending on whether they were moved or not, and original preservation, new construction restoration, and partial restoration according to the restoration method.
Next, after investigating and analyzing the laws and systems for modern agricultural heritage during the Japanese colonial period, the types of utilization through case studies of domestic and foreign modern agricultural heritage were classified as single-purpose utilization, multi-purpose utilization, and change of use, single-use utilization, multi-purpose utilization.
Third, the present state of preservation and use or absence of modern agricultural heritage in the area around Changwon Murai Farm were identified through field surveys. As a result of the analysis based on these survey results, most of the modern agricultural heritages were formed during the Japanese colonial period, and although they were built relatively long ago, they were found to be in very good condition.
In particular, it was investigated that most of the cases were still used as agricultural buildings, the same as those used during the Japanese colonial period. In addition, although it is a modern agricultural heritage, it was found to have high preservation value in terms of formativeness and usability as well as historical significance.
Therefore, considering that these facilities are still being used as agricultural buildings, it is necessary to find a conservation plan through utilization considering the characteristics of the conservation targets and location characteristics of these facilities. For example, it is necessary to change the use of public facilities, cultural facilities, parks, sports facilities, etc., and to preserve the original structure of the original building such as extension/renovation, etc., as well as various utilization measures such as expansion, relocation, reconstruction and recycling of related facilities.
In addition, as a way to preserve and utilize modern agricultural heritage, it is necessary to review the plan for comprehensive utilization after establishing a master plan such as connection with surrounding facilities such as Junam Reservoir, festivals, and trail creation, and it is also worth considering the expansion of tourism.
When it is difficult to preserve or relocate a modern agricultural heritage that is scheduled to be demolished or is in danger of collapse, it is necessary to find a way to preserve even a part of the modern agricultural heritage and use it as educational and experience materials.
In particular, it was found that it is urgent to establish a plan to investigate and preserve modern agricultural heritages that are no longer used as they were at the time of their creation and are left unattended. In general, there is a high possibility that related data remain relatively high for modern agricultural heritage that has been demolished or lost, and it is necessary to restore, preserve, and utilize the data in the future by converting it into a DB.

This study was limited to the agricultural modern heritage of Changwon Murai Farm during the Japanese colonial period, it may be different from the modern agricultural heritage of other regions, therefore It is necessary additional case studies and follow-up studies and to find ways to preserve and utilize them through designation.