This study was conducted to investigate needs and operational status for care farming of education or experience farms in South Korea. A questionnaire made up of 38 questions was developed for this study. The survey was conducted online among owners in education and experience farms (total 264 sites) in Seoul and nine provinces in September 2017. A total of 78 questionnaires were collected and the response rate was 44.6%. As the results, the purposes of farm operation reported as experience (85.9%), education (79.5%), production of agricultural products (67.9%), and healing (47.4%). Main visitors in education and experience farm were children and adolescents (89.7%), adults (51.3%), and families (46.2%). A farm activity program was mainly provided by a one-time experience using crops (69.2%), animals (16.7%), and food processing activity (10.3%). Fifty percent of the responding farmers received support from the government and the local government such as public relations (32.5%), operational funding (32.5%), and management consulting (15.0%). The lack factor of operating in farms was lower profit system (24.4%), poor farm infrastructure (21.8%), and lack of promotion and marketing ways (16.7%). 97.5% of the respondents reported ‘very necessary’ and ‘necessary’ of care farming. Specifically, the care farming service reported that priority should be given to children and adolescents (55.1%) and people with emotional and behavior disorder (15.4%). The present study is anticipated to offer the efficient management of care farm and provides reference data of the policy suggestion for care farming setting in South Korea.

Introduction
 Study Method
  Study subject and survey method
  Analysis method
 Results and Discussion
  Demographic information
  Operation status of education, experiences and care farms
   Physical･environmental factors (hardware factor)
   Human resource factor
   Internal factor (software factor)
  Satisfaction and difficulties in operation of education and experience farms
  Demand for care farming
 Conclusion
 References

• A-Young Lee(Department of Environmental Health Science, Sanghuh College of Life Science, Konkuk Univ)
• Yun Ah Oh(Department of Horticultural Therapy, Graduate School of Agriculture and Animal Science, Konkuk Univ.)
• Seon Ok Kim(Department of Horticultural Therapy, Graduate School of Agriculture and Animal Science, Konkuk Univ.)
• Dae-Sik Kim(Department of Agricultural and Rural Engineering, Chungnam National Univ.)
• Sin-Ae Park(Department of Environmental Health Science, Sanghuh College of Life Science, Konkuk Univ., Department of Horticultural Therapy, Graduate School of Agriculture and Animal Science, Konkuk Univ.) Corresponding author