지방자치단체 농촌공동화 실태와 정책 방안

(Purpose) Recently, the issue of the extinction of rural areas has become a hot topic in our society. This paper has two research perspectives to study the characteristics of rural communalization. First, the relationship between words was examined through a search for major keywords such as population extinction. Second, by examining the characteristics of rural population extinction in Buan-gun, focusing on demographic factors, this study attempted to suggest a method to solve the problem of rural population extinction. (Design/methodology/approach) The research method is as follows. A total of 605 articles were extracted by searching articles through keyword search for population extinction in major regional media(Jeonbuk Ilbo and Jeonbuk Domin Ilbo) from 2000 to 2020, and network text analysis was performed around the main keywords of these articles to analyze frequency and Degree Centrality. (Findings) The main keywords derived were 53, and the words with the highest frequency were the special law(13), local autonomy(12), preliminary candidates(10), civil servants(7), college students(6), presidents(5), and response to local extinction(5). As a result of the analysis of the extinction of the rural population in Buan-gun, the extinction risk index was very high at 0.23. In addition, there are characteristics such as a decrease in the number of moving-in population, an increase in the difference between the moving-in and moving-out populations, a decrease in the number of population, an increase in vacant houses, a decrease in the number of students and marriages, an increase in the aging rate, a decrease in the female population aged 20-39, and the population aged 0-4. (Research implications or Originality) According to the analysis results, the following implications were suggested. First, Enactment of a special law to overcome the crisis of rural population extinction, second, development of indexes for predicting the extinction of rural areas, third, revitalization of returning villages and seeking strategies to respond to vacant houses in rural areas, fourth, pursuing a creative population reduction strategy, fifth, prevention of young people moving out and implementation of a strong childbirth promotion policy.