Yesan-gun was selected to receive a “Village Community Garden Project” in 2018 to foster a sense of community and improve the urban landscape by working with neighbors to create a happy living space for residents. Yesan-gun selected Sapti Park, located in Yesan-eup, as the project site. The project was carried out through the design charrette method (an intense period of collaborative creativity) to allow residents to propose and design park concepts themselves for the community garden construction project to ensure that that the park facilities would provide something for everyone to enjoy. This study followed the actual design project that actively introduced the design charrette in planning the community garden, describing the entire design process from planning to construction and revealing how the opinions of residents were projected onto the design drawings. The purpose of the project was to advance user-participation design methods by reviewing the progress of the design charrette process and to examine how storytelling, the act of conveying ideas through a fun and persuasive story, transformed the plans for the community garden.

A variety of garden exhibitions were held in major Korean cities during the fall of 2017. Various themes and garden forms were displayed in the six major cities of Seoul, Busan, Incheon, Suncheon, Gyeonggido Ansan, and Gyeonggido in Dongtan New Town. Many participants of the garden fair decorated gardens around natural objects that showed space and time according to their design. The garden provides the best means of personal development. It is a space and place in which to express the dynamics of self-realization. The garden fair offers interactivity through a combination of biophilia, and toylism that provides customers with pleasure, fashion, and satisfaction. There were 280 works on display in these six major metropolitan cities during the fall of 2017. This number has grown from the 10 original Korean garden show writers. We began this study to discover regular or irregular patterns contained at the exhibition as well as to present elements that could be used in major studies.

This study aims to present a strategic direction in revitalizing tourist destinations using the concept of “functional adaptation” and applying it to the Yedang National Tourism Resort located in Yesan-gun in Chungcheungnam-do, which is losing its functionality as a tourist attraction. The term “functional adaptation” as used in this study refers to applying an intervention to natural changes while maintaining the existing functions, adapting them to changing tourism marketing paradigms. First, problems and potential functions were derived from relevant literature, on-site surveys, and in-depth interviews with insiders from the target resort. Indicators of revitalizing tourist destinations were then preselected from the reviewed literature data, and the final function-adaptive activation indicators were developed after subjecting the preselected preliminary indicators to reliability testing through a Likert-scale questionnaire survey with experts. Finally, the analytic hierarchy process (AHP) was employed for an importance-analysis of individual elements of the developed indicators. The analyses revealed the tourism resort’s “storytelling development” as having the highest importance, followed by “transport connectivity”, and “amusement/leisure programs offered”. The function-adaptive activation indicators developed in this study were applied to the Yedang National Tourism Resort for the importance-analysis of its functions, but the generalizability in applying the proposed indicators to other tourist sites has not yet been established. The findings of this study are expected to serve as an input for setting up strategies for tourist site revitalization in future in-depth research.

Since Taejongdae Resort Park’s designation as the first tourist area in 1969, a total of 230 domestic tourist areas have been designated, constructed, and operated thus far. Forty-seven years after the first tourist area designation, 38.8% of domestic tourist areas are now in a stage of stagnation/decline. As these declining domestic tourist areas only play their role as normal tourist areas during peak season, this study examined the causes of decline in tourist areas in general and of each tourist area in particular, so that the analysis could be used as basic data for the regeneration/revitalization of tourist areas. In order to understand the causes of decline, an index of cause of decline in tourist areas was drawn up. Data were collected based on this index, with tourist areas in the stagnation/decline stage as the target, which was drawn from previous research. Based on the results, factor analysis was conducted on both decline cause and discriminant analysis to understand the causes of decline in each tourist area. The results demonstrate that the diverse uses for tourists, sustainability, and preservation of tourism resources have a huge influence as internal factors, while the external capital investment and competitiveness of tourism resources have a huge influence as external factors. As this study only analyzed the quantitative index in accordance with physical characteristics, it is necessary to conduct additional research based on qualitative indices. In this case, this study could be used as basic data. This study is expected to be applied as basic research to seek solutions for each cause of stagnation/ decline in tourist areas, and also to establish measures to regenerate/revitalize those areas.

본 연구는 이용자참여를 통한 도시농업공원의 운영관리방향에 관한 연구이다. 공공성과 텃밭, 정원에 대한 개념정리를 통해 도시농업공원의 주제정원으로서 ‘텃밭정원’의 도입을 가정하였다. 이에 대하여 도시공원 이용자와 전문가를 대상으로 설문조사를 하여 각 집단의 선호 인식을 분석한 결과를 바탕으로 도시농업공원의 텃밭정원의 운영관리방향을 제안하는 데 목적이 있다. 텃밭정원을 위한 도시농업공원의 입지조건은 도심 내 평지 공원으로 집으로부터 걸어서 10분 이내, 500m~1km이내 이다. 텃밭정원의 취미활동은 텃밭농사, 꽃가꾸기, 휴식이며, 설치물은 식물재료와 이동식 시설이다. 조성비용은 참여자 개인부담과 지자체의 지원비로 확보한다. 임대면적은 16~33㎡이고, 임대기간은 2년이며 1회 연장할 수 있으며, 연간 임대료는 5만원이다. 임대구획은 일괄적으로 부여된 번호순으로 배정하며, 다수임대는 연속된 구획으로 최대 2구획이다. 텃밭정원은 이벤트 시 공공에게 개방하며, 텃밭정원 참여자는 텃밭정원 교육을 통해 텃밭정원의 조성 및 운영관리에 필요한 역량을 확보하고, 도시농업공원의 관리활동에 참여할 수 있다. 주민참여 텃밭정원은 공원시설부지면적에 산입하지 않는다.