An Exploratory Study on Development for Sustainable Community Enterprise in Jeju

Abstract

Purpose: There have been 1,592 community enterprises(CEs) as of June, 2019 in nationwide since the first case started in 2010 as 184 CEs were designated by the government. However, the majority of CEs has been in management risk due to low investment money and technological capability compared with private companies. Therefore, the purposes of this study were to identify the current situations regarding CEs and to provide managerial implications for securing sustainability and quality growth. Research design, data, and methodology: This study basically went through an exploratory methodology. The study mainly used the secondary data for literature reviews including background, concept, previous studies about development of CEs, and also collected the primary data with interview for some CEs in Jeju from August 2019 to June 2020. Results: There have been 1,592 CEs in nationwide in 2019 since 2010. The largest type was food area including 689 general foods and 224 traditional foods. Diverse areas were recommended including café, child care, financial services, leisure sports, transportation services, library, and teen-ager services such as England. The total of 37 CEs have registered in Jeju since 2010 starting two CEs. 41% was food area but 12 CEs have closed temporarily and 2 have closed completely. Like other regions, diversification of CEs was necessary. In addition, efforts should be made to diversify the types of village enterprises, as in the case of Britain and other countries, which are the origin of village enterprises. Conclusion: First, the re-organization of system relating CEs has needed such as unification of the concept of the ordinance. Second, diversification of CEs has been recommended to promote various types of businesses. Finally, supporting system has needed to re-organize such as implementation of CEs business by JPDC (Jeju Province Development Corporation; local public corporation) and JDC(Jeju Development Center; state-run corporation). Furthermore, in order to increase the value of this research, it is necessary to develop indicators that can guarantee the sustainability of CB through expert surveys(Delphi, FGI, AHP etc.) and make suggestions so that they can come up with support methods and systems suitable for the characteristics of Jeju according to the indicators.