I will suggest a meta-ideology which encompasses two aspects: development and conservation. It will deal with sustainable, sound, and healthy development, environmental conservation, and promotion of culture and art. The ideology can be summarized as “Jeju, island of selective reception for protecting people and environment.” The problems regarding development on Jeju include 1) lifting designation of greenbelt areas and carrying out indiscriminate development, 2) damage from stream maintenance and coverage of rivers, 3) increase in land prices after foreign capital attraction, 4) development which heavily depends on casinos and dutyfree shops, 5) inconvenience with high traffic volume, 6) imbalance in development caused by growth pole strategy. The future strategies of conserving Jeju for making all the people happy include 1) selective closed system or selective choice system, 2) eco-systemic thinking and policies focusing on management, 3) reinvestment and circulation of development profits within the region, 4) sharing development profits, 5) embracing diversity through fostering art and culture, 6) returning to a healthy city by restoring the old downtown area, 7) limiting facilities damaging urban communities and culture, 8) decision making based on cooperation and companionship.

Recently farming succession has become an important topic in agriculture in order to secure agricultural manpower in response to the aging of farming households and declining population. This study investigates farmers and agricultural college students’ perception of farming succession in Korea, especially of farming succession to a third party. Farmers and agricultural college students are potential farming transferors and successors, respectively. We surveyed 146 farmers and 95 students who graduated or were studying at the Korea National College of Agriculture and Fisheries. The questions of the survey are largely divided into four categories: 1) the will and scope of farming transfer and succession, 2) the requirements for the successors of farming, 3) the perception on the succession to third-parties, and 4) the farming succession policy. According to the survey results 41.4% of farmers and 46.3% of potential farming successors have willingness to accept a farming succession to a third party. When farming succession was carried out through the Farming Succession Exchange, 46.8% of farmers and 54.7% of successors said they are willing to carry out third-party farming succession. This means that a third-party farming succession could be activated if the reliability issue that may arise during the farming succession is resolved through the Farming Succession Exchange. Other implications for farming succession are suggested at the end of this study.

The purpose of this study is to explore the dynamic properties of causality and asymmetric price transmission in the distributional channel of the tomato market in Korea. Using the wholesale and retail price series of the tomato market, we obtain the following results. First, the price transmission mechanism reveals the causal relationship channeling from the wholesale price to the retail price. Second, we find an asymmetric price transmission from the analysis using the threshold partial adjustment model. The retail price responds strongly when the wholesale price increases. On the other hand, the retail price shows sluggish adjustment when the wholesale price decreases.