Workation Activation Plan of Island Area

1. CONTENTS (1) RESEARCH OBJECTIVES Island regions are experiencing a more rapid population decline and regional extinction than other local governments, so it is more important to activate workation. Therefore, this study aims to study the current status of workation in island regions and ways to activate it. (2) RESEARCH METHOD To study the ways, of the related theses, publications and statistics released in Korea and abroad, they are theoretically reviewed and the materials are obtained from related references. the above is used by literature reviews and survey analyses to achieve the purpose of this study. (3) RESEARCH RESULTS The spread of new work environments such as telework and remote work is developing digital technologies that can support new work environments such as video conferencing, cloud, and collaboration solutions. In particular, in the current crisis of regional population decline and regional extinction, it is time to promote regional development through the relocation of the living population to the region. In particular, in the case of island regions, it is necessary to seek legal and institutional measures to develop work and vacation through workation, and the government and local governments also need systematic support for this. 2. RESULTS Measures to activate workation in island areas include increasing accessibility to island areas, establishing internet infrastructure in island areas to accommodate remote work, developing workation programs that utilize the characteristics and resources of island areas, securing financial resources to increase the sustainability of workation in island areas, expanding exchanges between the government, local governments, businesses, and island residents, and revising related laws.