The Wto System And Agricultural Policy Changes In South Korea

The main aim of this dissertation is to observe the agricultural changes in the Korea according to Uruguay Round Agreement of the (UR) and World Trade Organization (WTO). And the dissertation reviews the changes of each period. Generally speaking, the current agriculture policies are much more influenced by the above circumstances. We will also review that the entire changes of the policies have been reflected on the agriculture law, a concrete policy therein, and the system makeup of the Ministry of Agriculture.The changes of the agriculture law could be found through the agriculture standard law, which was enacted in the year 1967 and had been revised in all aspects recently. In the past, the goal of the agriculture standard law was based upon a civil economy, to overcome natural, economic and social restrictions, modernize an agriculture's management system, develop an agricultural productivity, increase provisions and the like's yield, and finally leads to reform production, price and circulation system of agricultural products, increase farmhouse income and keep pace with other industry employees in income balance. On the other side, the agricultural standard law fully revised in the year 2000 came to reflect agricultural situation such as market-opening pressure for agricultural products due to WTO departure. The law, in the face of opening and competition times, focuses on heightening our competitive power and strengthening the functions of public benefits to develop agriculture as nation's core industry which contributes to supply civil provisions sufficiently, preserve territorial environment, and so on. Also, the goal thereof is to prepare a ground which can support the development plan of agriculture and rural community, and governmental investment and fund plan for the nation, to systemize the newly emerging policies as well: reinforcement for provisions supply and farmland preservation, introduction of direct payment system, environment-friendly agriculture upbringing, agricultural policy for coping with reunification in the future, venture agriculture, preservation of national inheritance resources, management reform of agricultural labour and general fund system, green tourism, and so on. The changes above could eventually besaid to prepare a new system's basis for agriculture's continuous development in the information and knowledge society of the 21st century.Special organization exclusively in charge of the international commerce business was started in the Ministry of Agriculture. It was Special organization to exclusively charge the international commerce business was already started in the Ministry of Agriculture. And the international commerce business, having been a small department before WTO, was elevated in rank as commercial office for agricultural cooperation in the process of international negotiation, the same office was lifted as a Bureau class again. Accordingly, our Ministry of Agriculture has been enlarged to charge the international commerce business as an international agriculture country, a small department before WTO and was elevated in rank as commercial office for agricultural cooperation in the process of international negotiation, The same office was then lifted as a Bureau class, Thereof the Ministry of Agriculture has been enlarged to be in charge of the international commerce business as an international agriculture country.Before WTO system, that was from 1980 till in the early of 1990, the core agricultural policy to settle pending problems such as relative poverty of farming and fishing communities, farmhouse debt, and others. Inthe process, efforts to put forward the balanced development between province and rural community and of improve standard of living. After WTO departure, many policies' changes came into existence: market-centralized income and management stabilization efforts, agricultural supplementation efforts for market function failure as public benefits, internal reform efforts such as agricultural lavour's management reform, and grafting trial for the th...