Well-proportioned development between the rural and urban areas the lessons from Korea

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WELL-PROPORTIONED DEVELOPMENT BETWEEN THE RURAL AND URBAN AREAS

THE LESSONS FROM KOREA Prof Dr Tran Cao Son

Institute of Sociology

National Center of Social Sciences and Humanities After a process taking part in training and doing research about Korea, many problems have been drawn from the reality in Korea during the last fifteen years to develop

In this paper, the author mentions to a fundamental content, or a characteristic highlight:

1 Giving the priority to constructing the infrastructure and the sources to the cause of industrialization and modernization of the country With the concentrating process on population and the scale of the urban system, Korea has built rapidly material and mental sources for a modern economy The economic strategy to supplant import with

the success of the strategy to export orientation has helped Korea to

approach the glory The modern urban system has played a principal role in the whole process of development of national economy This is a base, a prerequisite and extremely important condition to industrialization

Therefore, if we want to realize modernization and industrialization, we are obligated to pay attention to urbanization in a

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reasonable and consistent process

The success in industrialization has created favorable conditions _ for Korea to build their new rural area after a long time they didn't pay attention to The policy to develop the countryside from the early 1970s has had many achievements

Especially, Korea has had full potential to enter intellectual economy in the common tendency of mankind ;

2 From the reality of Korea, the paper has mentioned about

some similarities between Korea and Vietnam at the beginning of

industrialization and modernization

Vietnam has had a harmonious urban system but is still small in scale, it doesn't meet the requirements of industrialization and modernization To carry out well the developing strategy, we need to pay attention to developing a fully strong urban system, exploit the

existing advantages, invest in renovation and widen reasonably

It is the most necessary and effective steps that we should leam from the reality in Korea in her vivid development in the last few

decades ‘