The purpose of this study is to analyse the change and characteristic of agricultural land use for the mountainous village which was linked to the development of arable land in the historic process as the case study on Yowon-village, Gyeongbuk province. The findings are summarized as fellows. First, most of arable land development had been developed from the late 16th century to the late 19th century and in the 1960s. A rice field was developed at the valley containing water resource and a dry field at the land close to a village before 1960 and at the gently sloped and wide hill after 1960. Second, the crops cultivated before the introduction of commercial agriculture were potato, foxtail millet, bean. After the 1970s, The vegetable, red pepper, tobacco were commercially cultivated. Third, the main group of land use change(choice of crops) result from effort of the inhabitant The significance of this study are as follows, explaining the change and characteristic of agriculture land use for the mountainous village which was linked to the development of arable land, studying as the case on small-scale village.