A STUDY ON MULTICULTURALISM AND ADAPTATION PROBLEMS IN SOUTH KOREA

Abstract

The concepts of village and neighbourhood are the structures which have existed in local
government structure for many years. There are various legal, sociological and cultural
characteristics of being a village and neighbourhood. Additionally, as the Law No. 6360 on the
Establishment of the Fourteen Metropolitan Municipalities and Twenty-seven Districts and the Law
on the Amendment of Certain Laws and Statutory Decrees has been enacted by Grand National
Assembly of Turkey on 14.03.2013, and has been implemented by publishing on Official Gazette,
these two concepts which have different legal structures are subject to new legal regulations. With
this law, all the villages in the provinces that have metropolitan status have been transformed into
neighbourhoods. Definitely, this transformation has resulted in many sociological, psychological
and legal consequences.In this study, the Law No. 6360 was evaluated within the framework of 2014 local election, which
is the first year of implementation of the Law. With this Law, the transformation of some provinces
into the metropolitan municipalities which is the most fundamental change in the local government
structure, the transformation of the villages of these municipalities into neighbourhoods, and the
closure of some city municipalities were examined.