In this study, a survey on the coexistence of offshore wind farm and fishing activities in Gochang, Gunsan, and Buan’s fishermen in the southwest sea offshore wind farm was carried out witn an aim of examining the factors that should be considered when coexisting. A questionnaire was composed after referring to domestic and foreign literature data on examples of coexistence. The questionnaire was issued through direct visits. Frequency analysis and cross-analysis were used for survey response results, and IBM SPSS Statistics ver. 26 was used for statistical processing. As a result of analyzing a total of 84 questionnaires, the perception of the coexistence of offshore wind and fishing activities was the same by 50.0% positive and negative, respectively. As a result of cross-analysis by region, significant differences were found (p <0.039). Gochang fishermen showed a high negative perception of the coexistence of offshore wind and fishing activities at 62.1%, with the main reason being that fishing resources are expected to decrease due to the influence of noise, vibration, and current generated from offshore wind farm facilities. In Gunsan, negative perception of coexistence was high at 57.7%. This was mainly attributed to the impossibility to operate in the offshore wind farm due to the nature of the fishery. On the contrary, in the case of Buan, 69.0% of the positive perception of coexistence was high 'because fishermen were dissatisfied with the current coexistence plan (policy)'. According to previous studies, 91.8% of domestic fishing methods show the possibility of fishing activities in offshore wind under caution, so it is concluded that research should be conducted to coexist with offshore wind and fishing activities as in foreign countries for smooth installation of offshore wind and continuous fishing activities.

1. Introduction
2. Theoretical background
    2.1 Overview of offshore wind power
    2.2 Overview of fishing activities
    2.3 Conflict between offshore wind power and fishingactivities
    2.4 Status of coexistence of offshore wind power andfishing activities
3. Materials and methods
4. Results and discussion
    4.1 General status
    4.2 Perception of the coexistence of offshore wind powerand fishing activities
    4.3 Perception of the coexistence of offshore wind powerand fishing activities by region
    4.4 Factors to consider when offshore wind power andfishing activities coexist
5. Conclusion
References

• Yu-Jeong Mun(Master of Science, Department of Fisheries Science, Kunsan National University, Gunsan 54150, Republic of Korea)
• Cho-Young Jung(Professor, Department of Public Service in Ocean & Fisheries, Kunsan National University, Gunsan, 54150, Republic of Korea) Corresponding author