Korea has maintained a growth-focused economic policy since the 1960s. As a result, the farming and fishing villages and islands regions outside of the axis of development could not escape from the policy alienation and a relative backwardness and an increase in uninhabited islands due to a rapid decrase in population progressed quickly as well. Islands regions remain in a limited region or a special region category because of sea-surroundedness, isolatedness and narrowness but they are significant not only because they provide a living space where island residents live in but also because of the production of things to eat, travel and leisure attactions, outpost of fishing industry, national security, the starting point of EEZ and the extensive expansion of land, etc.