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Jeollabuk-do was an important region as expressed as treasure house and paradise of Joseon Dynasty in the Japanese colonial rule. Main product of Jeollabuk-do with many plains including the Jeonju plain was naturally the rice. Iksan-gun within Jeollabuk-do was suitable for farming since it had good condition in crop development as a warm climate. Also, the rice was represented as Iksan-gun's farm products. Thus Japanese to establish the farm entered in Iksan-gun after the opening of the Gunsan port in 1897. A landowner system is developed in Hamra for the fertile land and a geographical condition near Kanggyeong. Although the Japanese who wanted to buy farm land around Hamra increased in number after the opening of the Gunsan port, Hamra has less the Japanese land than other regions. The Korean landowners retained land, especially, almost they who had more than 10ha land lived in their land, Hamra. Farm land owned by Japanese increased significantly during Japanese colonial rule of Korea 1910-45. The region where Japanese owed most land was Damang-ri(다망리) and Sindae-ri(신대리) which lay on the border between the Seosu-myeon(서수면) and Hamra, and The smallest area was Hamyeol-ri(함열리), the central place in Hamra. Nevertheless, Korean landowners owned more land than Japanese in Hamra. But landowners in Hamra may not be able to avoid the Agricultural Land Reform after the 1945 Liberation of Korea.