REGULATING INDUSTRIAL-GROWTH IN THE SOUTH-KOREAN CAPITAL REGION

Authors
Citation
Ks. Kim et N. Gallent, REGULATING INDUSTRIAL-GROWTH IN THE SOUTH-KOREAN CAPITAL REGION, Cities, 15(1), 1998, pp. 1-11
Citations number
23
Categorie Soggetti
Urban Studies
Journal title
CitiesACNP
ISSN journal
02642751
Volume
15
Issue
1
Year of publication
1998
Pages
1 - 11
Database
ISI
SICI code
0264-2751(1998)15:1<1:RIITSC>2.0.ZU;2-O
Abstract
Balanced regional development has been at the top of the South Korean political agenda for more than three decades, Despite implementing var ious policy measures, industrial development has been heavily weighted towards the Seoul metropolitan area and this has fuelled a substantia l level of population growth with associated physical and social probl ems. Hard planning and rigid development zoning failed to adequately a ddress this issue and more recently, the South Korean government has l ooked at ways of relaxing planning control whilst providing new incent ives and disincentives for manufacturing firms in a fresh attempt to c lose regional and intra-regional economic disparities. This paper expl ores the government's changing strategy, paying particular attention t o industrial parks as the main vehicle carrying forward the policy of decentralisation. It examines the failure of past measures and conside rs the potential that more recent strategies may offer for reshaping t he economic and social structure of both the Capital region and the wh ole of South Korea. (C) 1998 Elsevier Science Ltd, All rights reserved .