Abstract:

The Saemangeum Seawall Project, South Korea, is a major land reclamation scheme for which the outer seawall was constructed between 1991 and 2006 and other reclamation work is still ongoing. The primary goal of reclamation was to create agricultural land and to strengthen the Gunsan area’s position as an international centre of trade and industry. The project was implemented for the public good and on publicly owned surface water. The project, however, experienced many problems: women and men fishers lost their means of living, water became polluted, and ecosystems were destroyed. These problems, however, tended to be hidden behind debates about economic values and the logic that attached the greatest priority to economic development. By the development of this large-scale national project, the livelihood foundations of the women and men fishers were removed and yet the national government and administration did not guarantee their livelihoods. Once they had been compensated for their fishing rights, the fishers did not have a place to appeal for their basic livelihood rights. With a focus on the change in the women and men fishers' lives, the present study aims to elucidate the impacts and changes of the tideland reclamation on the fishers' communities and their cultural cohesion, the gender roles and the differences people of different ages experienced from the time of closure of the tide embankment.

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Date 2017/12/31

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