The purpose of this study is to investigate the space composition and landscape structure around the village forests in five villages located on the coast of Wando-gun. The research focuses on field investigation and literature review. The results of this study are as follows In the case of village forests constructed for the protection of villages and cultivated areas in the coastal area of Wando-gun, which is the study area, it is confirmed that there are mountains behind the forests. Through the analysis of landscape elements, it was concluded that two types of layouts exist. Regarding the space composition around the village forest on the coast, it was found that there is a type A arranged in the order of sea → coast → village forest → village → cultivated land → rear mountain, and a type B arranged in the order the sea → coast → village forest → cultivated land → village → cultivated land → rear mountain. In the analysis of landscape characteristics, the elevation angle from the coast to the top of the mountain behind the village forest was measured. Accordingly, elevation angles of approximately 16°–17° in the type A arrangement and 7°–9° in type B arrangement were determined. From these results, it can be confirmed that the space composition and placement of the village forest with disaster prevention function vary according to the distance and elevation (changes in elevation angle) from the coast to the rear mountain.

ABSTRACT
 1. Introduction
 2. Literature Reviews
 3. Methods
 4. Results and Discussions
  4.1 Current Status and Characteristics of VillageForests
  4.2 Analysis of Spatial Arrangement andComposition around the Village Forest
  4.3 Analysis of Landscape Characteristics
 5. Conclusions
 References

• Juhui Kim(Dept. of Landscape Architecture, Graduate School, Mokpo National University)
• Hyunmi Bae(Dept. of Landscape Architecture, Mokpo National University) Corresponding author