Sustainability through Non-Agricultural Business Development in Resident Cooperative Planning: A Case of Korea’s Rural Area

Abstract

This study analyzes a participatory regeneration project implemented for sustainable improvement as the center of Yeongju, a rural area in Korea, declines. The paper explains how participants were chosen from the mostly elderly population and encouraged to participate. In this case, a small, non-agricultural business that existing residents could maintain was conceived and implemented with a focus on cooperation rather than agricultural recovery or urbanization through the construction of large apartments and new industrial complexes. To this end, the administration continues to support the community from a long-term perspective, and experts have consistently made practical implementations among them. The participating community is not fixed but flexibly reorganized based on the progress of the project. In addition, by creating public community facilities, residents can continue their activities. This study emphasizes that participatory planning does not necessarily imply a retreat to the administration and experts and provides important guidance for implementation under similar conditions in the future.

Digital Business Entrepreneurship Decisions: An E-Business Analysis (A Study Literature Review)

“…In this case, e-commerce is a subsection of e-business [9]. While e-business itself is anything whose business functions or activities are carried out using all electronic data, including internet marketing as part of e-business, e-commerce tends to focus more on business transactions using websites or applications [10]. By using a knowledge management system, this e-commerce has the aim of increasing company revenue.…”