전북연구원 Issue Briefing

Undertaking urgent green restoration initiatives to create value in ecological and environmental assets and facilitate community recovery in Jeonbuk State

○ Global industrialization and accelerating urban growth have led to the rapid shrinkage of natural spaces such as forests and wetlands, adversely affecting biodiversity including ecological and environmental assets. Furthermore, Korea’s increasing rate of urbanization (reported as 92% in 2020) has expanded residential, commercial, and industrial areas by two to three times over the past 30 years, while decreasing forest and agricultural areas..

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Chun Jung-yoon, Bae Jin-a

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Keywords: Green restoration, degraded area, natural capital, ecological economy, community recovery

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Strategic and operational plans to leverage Jeonbuk-specific specialized visa program to secure regional foreign talent in agriculture and life sciences fields

□ Necessity of regional specialized visa designed for agricultural sector◯ Jeonbuk State is facing the grim reality of worsening labor shortages in the crop production industry and other agriculture-related industries due to the depopulation and aging of its rural areas.◯ The regional specialized visa program (F-2-R visa for regional foreign talent) has been promoted since 2022 to combat labor shortages in depopulated areas by attracting resi..

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Cho won-jee, Jeon hee-jin, Park ja-kyung, Kwon oh-hyun

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Workers under the agricultural employment permit system (E-9), regional specialized visa (F-2-R), agricultural educational institution for F-2-R visa

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The Place-based Industry: A New Response Strategy to Local Population Decline

● The Place-based Industry Concept○ Place-based industries leverage an area’s unique identity and sense of place as a competitive advantage in producing goods and services, involving creativity tailored to regional characteristics.○ The value of place-based products and services peaks when they are offered in their original location and diminishes as they move further away.○ Factors influencing the sense of place, critical to place-based in..

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Kim Dong-Young

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place-based industry, place-based manufacturing, place-based content, de facto populations

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Green ammonia: key to energy independence and carbon neutrality

□ A guide to the green ammonia industry● Green ammonia (green NH3), a compound produced using 100% renewable energy with zero greenhouse emissions, contributes to securing and distributing hydrogen energy.● The green ammonia industry encompasses the production and distribution of green ammonia and the diversification of related derivative industries involving green hydrogen, fuel cells, smart farms, cold chains, and agriculture and life scien..

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Na Jung-ho,Kim Hee-soo

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Carbon neutrality, carbon-free energy, green ammonia, green ammonia industrial ecosystem

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The implications of food desertification in rural areas and related challenges to address

○ The breakdown of fresh food supply systems and the high proportion of the socially disadvantaged aggravate food desertification in rural areas. Food deserts, in turn, have left affected residents undernourished and thus vulnerable to diseases, threatening their basic rights to food and quality of life.○ Jeonbuk State is no exception to the accelerating food desertification in the rural areas of its cities and counties. However, this critical..

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Cho won-jee, Hwang Young-mo, Kwon oh-hyun

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Factors contributing to Jeonbuk State’s declining total fertility rate and potential solutions for its low birth rate

● Definition of total fertility rate and major contributing factors○ The total fertility rate is defined as the average number of children that would be born to a woman (aged 15–49) if she were to live to the end of her childbearing years. Therefore, identifying the factors affecting this rate necessitates a critical review of the population and age structure of women of reproductive age, number of births (crude birth rate), number of marriag..

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Lee Ju-yeon, Kim Dong-young, Jihoon Choi

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Ways to improve the farm population policy of Jeonbuk State: centered on measures to attract foreign workers

○ With the rapid shrinking and aging of rural areas in Jeonbuk State (the State), various population growth programs that focus on the “returning to farming and rural areas” policy are being developed to increase the region’s de facto and relational population. Additionally, as part of its action plan to promote de jure population growth, the State has begun issuing region-specific and special visas to attract top-tier foreign talent and the..

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Cho won-jee, Kwon oh-hyun

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Farmers’ Health: A Blind Spot in the Climate Crisis Era

○ In accordance with Article 37-2 of the Framework Act on Health and Medical Services, the Ministry of Health and Welfare conducted its first Climate Change Health Risk Assessment in 2022 to ascertain the effect of climate change on public health. More than 95% of the respondents believed climate change would affect health, but they did not fully understand the connections between climate change and human health.○ In pursuing carbon neutrality..

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Cho won-jee, Kwon oh-hyun

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All-solid-state batteries to address limitations of secondary batteries

○ All-solid-state batteries (ASSBs) refer to a type of battery whose major components are all made of solid materials. With increased safety and improved space utilization, they offer the potential to address the technical limitations of traditional lithium-ion batteries.○ Unlike secondary batteries that use organic liquid electrolytes, ASSBs use solid electrolytes and pose little risk of fire or explosion. They do not require separators or co..

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Eui-hyun Ha

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Implementation of Special Law on Distributed Energy: North Jeolla Province to Become a Community-based Solar and Wind Local Energy Hub!

□ Necessity of Expansion of Community-based Solar-Wind Distributed Energy◯ To address spatial mismatches between energy production and consumption, which incur significant societal and economic costs, distributed energy systems in which energy is produced and consumed locally are actively being implemented◯ North Jeolla Province should explore various business models for innovative energy systems in order to achieve energy decentralization an..

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Jihoon Lee, Sehyun Park

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community, solar·wind distributed energy, business model, North Jeolla Province, small scale

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