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Purpose: This study identified cases of overseas interventions conducted to improve walking practice to explore walking interventions that can be applied to improve walking practice rates in Korean communities. Method: A total of 11 documents were selected according to database search and literature selection criteria and finally analyzed. We searched PubMed, Google, and Google Scholar for literature published after 2000 using a combination of search terms (walk, walking, community, community-based population) Result: There were eight population-level studies and three individual-level studies covering the entire community, and the subjects were residents with physically inactive adults, the elderly, and socioeconomically vulnerable groups in the community. There were three randomised trials, four long-term cohort studies longer than one year, three cohort studies less than one year, and one mixed study. In addition, intervention types included two studies that provided economic incentives, two studies used community participatory interventions, three studies provided campaigns and information, three studies provided education and consultation, and six studies created an environment and infrastructure. The most studies created the environment and infrastructure. Conclusion: In order to achieve the 2030 target of walking practice rate 50.0% in South Korea, it is necessary to consider various topics such as building good governance through community participation, whole-of-government approaches, and changes in the social and environmental conditions of local communities, along with policy-enabling factors that can create an active systems centered on a systems-based approach that combines interventions at the individual and national levels.