1. Rural Community Development
Chamun Koo
Professor, Handong Global Univ.
Director, Handong Saemaul Academy

2. Community Development
Edwards and Jones (1976) define community in terms of geography:
… a group of people who reside in a specific locality and who exercise some degree of local anatomy in organizing their social life in such a way that they can, from that locality base, satisfy the full range of their daily needs.
Zentner(1964) views a community in the following terms:
… a group structure… integrated around goals associated with the problems arising out of the collective occupation and utilization of habitational space… The community has certain measures of local autonomy… and a degree of local responsibility.

3. Community Development
Community development is a process where community members come together to take collective action and generate solutions to common problems. Community wellbeing (economic, social, environmental and cultural) often evolves from this type of collective action being taken at a grassroots level.
Community development ranges from small initiatives within a small group to large initiatives that involve the broader community. Effective community development should be: a long-term endeavor, well-planned, inclusive and equitable, holistic and integrated into the bigger picture initiated, and supported by community members of benefit to the community.

4. Community Development
Community development is a grassroots process by which communities become more responsible, organize and plan together, develop healthy lifestyle options, empower themselves reduce poverty and suffering, create employment and economic opportunities, and achieve social, economic, cultural, and environmental goals.
Community development seeks to improve quality of life. Effective community development results in mutual benefit and shared responsibility among community members.

5. Community Development
Such development recognizes: the connection between social, cultural, environmental, and economic matters, the diversity of interests within a community, its relationship to building capacity. Community development helps to build community capacity in order to address issues and take advantage of opportunities, find common ground and balance competing interests.
It doesn’t just happen – capacity building requires both a conscious and a conscientious effort to do something (or many things) to improve the community.

6. Community Development
The term “development” often carries an assumption of growth and expansion. During the industrial era, development was strongly connected to increased speed, volume and size. However, many people are currently questioning the concept of growth for numerous reasons – a realization that more isn’t always better, or an increasing respect for reducing outside dependencies and lowering levels of consumerism.

7. Community Development
Community development is a tool for managing change but it is not: a quick fix or a short-term response to a specific issue within a community; a process that seeks to exclude community members from participating; or an initiative that occurs in isolation from other related community activities.
Community development is about community building as such, where the process is as important as the results. One of the primary challenges of community development is to balance the need for long-term solutions with the day-to-day realities that require immediate decision-making and short-term action.

8. City and Community <Regional Economics>
City is an engine of development.
City is a center for innovation
Economies of scale works
Central Place Theory (Walter Christaller)
There are problems of fast urbanization
Urban Environmental Problems as well as social problems in the city
City includes many communities, which should be connected under certain network.

9. City and Community
Rural areas in developing countries are mostly suffering from poverty because of lower agricultural productivity. But other industry cannot be developed in rural areas in developing countries, except agriculture.

10. Agricultural New Town The rural areas need agricultural new towns.
Functions of the agricultural new town:
- Agri product Markets
- Agriculture Processing industry
- Logistics hub
- Administrative Services
- Housing
- Schools
- Agricultural Machinery Sale and Service Center
- Agricultural Technology Education
- Agriculture Venture Incubator
- Farmer’s Association

11. Agricultural New Town Agricultural Items - Grain - Vegetable & Fruits
- Medicinal Herbs
Agri processing industry
Microalgae: Production of Biomass
1촌 1명품 (Japanese Villages) 1 village 1 brand product strategy

12. Agricultural New Town Land Reform - Independent Famers
- Market Farming
Housing
- Sites-and-Services
- Site-Upgrading
- New Town Development

13. Agricultural New Town Community and/or Neighborhood
- Radius/Physical Boundary
- Infrastructures (road, water, sewage system..)
- Parcels (Planning First)
- Housing
- Schools
- Community Services/Cultural Activities

14. Community Leadership & Self-help
Sustainable Development (Local Agenda 21)
Self-Sufficient
Saemaul Movement
Diligence, Self-Help, Collaboration
Purpose of Saemaul is to upgrade ‘quality of living’ through ‘community efforts’ in rural areas

15. Thank You!! August 15, 2016 Professor Chamun Koo
Handong Global University