Awareness of Agricultural Technology Center's Role and Function in Urban and Rural Complex City - Focusing on Comparison of Awareness between Agriculturalist and Nonagriculturalist -

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In an urban-rural complex city in South Korea created in 1995 to foster symbiosis between city and countryside, a user survey at the Namyangju Agricultural Technology Center compared how agriculturalists and nonagriculturalists perceive the center's role and function. Agriculturalists mainly visited to take part in agriculture-related education programs, while nonagriculturalists visited more for agricultural understanding, leisure, children's education and hands-on field programs, and nonagriculturalists expressed stronger demand for urban agriculture, research on improving rural living, adjustment education for returning farmers, and farming-promotion functions, pointing to a need for the center to change its services for its growing nonagriculturalist user base.