NATIONAL LAND DEVELOPMENT AND URBAN POLICY IN KOREA

Abstract

A country is composed of the three basic factors of national land, people and sovereignty. Land is a source by which all living things including human being can survive, nation and people can exist, and physical facilities can be built. The land of a country, being a natural resource with effective value, has such characteristics as limitation, fixation and diversity. In a country, the area of land can not be basically expanded disregarding land reclamation by drainage, and the land is impossible in removing to another place. Diversity of land implies that a land can be developed into various uses. Demand of land is continuously increased due to population growth, elevation of economic level, extention of people's activities, enlargement of human desire, and increasing of competitive spirit. An increasing trend of land demand subject to land limitation brings about various economic and social problems in a country, especially in urban areas. By those reasons, we can find a necessity of national participation. in land development and a rationale of intentional planning for land use. The objective of national land development is to establish a desirable order and system of national space.