Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport Focuses on Rural and Fishing Villages... Establishes 2nd Basic Plan for Landscape Policy

Derivation of 3 Major Promotion Strategies, 6 Key Policy Tasks, and 18 Action Tasks

[Asia Economy Reporter Moon Jiwon] The Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport recently decided to focus on managing rural, fishing, and mountainous areas, industrial complexes, and border regions?areas facing difficulties due to population decline and aging?through national landscape policies.

On the 2nd, the Ministry announced the '2nd Basic Plan for Landscape Policy,' a mid-term plan for national landscape policy over the next five years that reflects changes in policy, social, and cultural conditions.

The 2nd Basic Plan for Landscape Policy is a statutory plan established under the Landscape Act. The 1st Basic Plan, established in 2015, ended this year.

The 2nd Basic Plan maintains the vision of "A 100-year National Landscape with the People," and sets the promotion goals of "Creating a National Landscape Felt by the People," "Establishing a Region-led Management Foundation," and "Creating Future Value of the National Landscape," deriving three major promotion strategies, six policy tasks, and eighteen implementation tasks.

First, landscape management neglected areas such as non-urban regions will be managed through specific landscape plans, focused landscape management zones, and landscape reviews according to their characteristics, while various benefits for regional management will be provided.

The criteria and procedures for landscape reviews will be specified to improve guidelines, and institutional support such as activating prior reviews and joint reviews will enhance policy execution power.

Additionally, by establishing "Landscape Day" and developing easy and enjoyable promotional content such as webtoons and games, public awareness will be expanded. Regular perception surveys will be conducted to continuously supplement and refine policies according to public awareness and demand.

Various participation methods, such as village landscape beautification campaigns, will be discovered to enable citizens to independently form and manage landscapes.

The Ministry plans to carry out follow-up research projects to concretize the Basic Plan for Landscape Policy and to steadily promote amendments to the Landscape Act based on these efforts.

Kim Sang-moon, Director of the Architecture Policy Division at the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport, emphasized, "Based on the 2nd Basic Plan for Landscape Policy, we will prepare various policy promotion measures to ensure that national landscape management is successfully established and expanded."

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