The Korea Local Administration Review

The abandoned mine areas of Gangwon State Government (Samcheok-si, Taebaek-si,
Yeongwol-gun, and Jeongseon-gun) are areas where the regional economic
downturn is rapidly progressing due to rapid population decline and lack of jobs.
Cooperation between local governments is continuously being discussed as a way
to solve the problem.
This study analyzed the expenditure budgets of each local government sector
and conducted a priority analysis on the need for cooperation in order to suggest
a direction for discovering cooperation projects between local governments in
abandoned mine areas.
Expenditure budget analysis is based on the Ministry of Public Administration
and Security's Local Government Budget Preparation and Operation Standards Annex
9 ‘Expenditure Budget Classification’ by function in the fields of culture and tourism,
industry and small and medium-sized enterprises, land and regional development,
social welfare and general administration, transportation and logistics, and health.
The proportion of the total expenditure budget was calculated.
In the priority analysis of the need for cooperation, the relative importance
of cooperation projects areas and functional groups was measured using AHP.
As a result of the analysis, the 'culture and tourism' and 'transport and
transportation sectors' are areas with a high need for cooperation, but the proportion
of expenditures is medium or low, and the 'industry and small and medium-sized
businesses' and 'land and regional development' sectors are areas with a high
need for cooperation. The need for cooperation and the proportion of expenditures
are each at a medium level. In the field of ‘social welfare and general public
administration’, the need for cooperation is low, but the proportion of expenditures
is high, and in the field of ‘health and medical care’, the need for cooperation
is low and the proportion of expenditures is also low.
In the fields of ‘transport and transportation’ and ‘culture and tourism’, it can
be strategically considered to increase the proportion of local government
expenditures at the current level as the need for cooperation is higher than the
proportion of expenditures. In the ‘Industry, small and medium-sized enterprises’,
and ‘the land and regional development’ sectors, we should review the list of
cooperative projects and prioritize projects that can strengthen regional
competitiveness. In the field of ‘social welfare and general public administration’,
we need to readjust the priorities for cooperation projects between local
governments.