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BackgroundInformation
Herald
Korea
Korea
As the old saying goes, ¡°When
¨ÏStatistics
people are born, send them
Tae-seong/The
to Seoul. As for the horses,
send them to Jeju Island.¡±
¨ÏHeo
The preference for the Seoul
capital area has existed since
ancient times. Seoul has been
the center of the politics,
economy, and culture of Korea
¡ãTherearecurrently19newtownsinGyeonggiandIncehon,
since becoming the capital of
whicharepartoftheSeoulcapitalarea.
the Joseon Dynasty. From the 1960s to the 1990s, residents of rural areas who left their
hometownsundergovernment-ledeconomicdevelopmentflockedtotheSeoulcapitalarea
which offered them more workplaces. Even after that, unlike the manufacturing-oriented
regions, the service-oriented metropolitan area continued to drive economic development
and urban development such as 1st phase new town* development. After democratization
in 1987, interest in local autonomy, decentralization, and balanced regional development
was discussed and various policies were implemented. However, the phenomenon of
centralization in the Seoul capital area continued. According to resident registration
population statistics released by the Ministry of Public Administration and Security in
2020,theproportionofthepopulationintheSeoulcapitalarea,whichwasat20.8percent
in 1960, soared to 35.5 percent in 1980 and 42.8 percent in 1990. In the rural areas,
populationoutflowingtoSeoulisstilltakingplacetoday.
¡ãForthefirsttimeinthehistoryofSouth
Korea,thepopulationoftheSeoulcapital
*1st phase new town: A new town built near Seoul by the Roh Tae-woo government, which served from 1988 to 1993,
areahasexceeded50%ofthecountry¡¯s
to stabilize house prices and solve the housing shortage. Five new towns are included in the 1st phase: Bundang in
totalpopulationin2020.
Seongnam,IlsaninGoyang,SanboninGunpo,JungdonginBucheon,andPyeongchoninAnyang,GyeonggiProvince.
Phenomenon
¡°Themetropolitanareawithalargepopulationalsorequiresa
largebudgettomeetthedemandforinfrastructure.¡±Headded,
Thedecreaseofpopulationinruralareasduetotheexpansion
¡°If this trend continues, by 2040, 30 percent of the basic local
of the Seoul capital area is a serious problem in that the
governmentsinKoreawillreachbankruptcy.¡±
declining rural areas become a black hole that sucks the
Despite such a large government budget, people in rural
governmentbudget.ProfessorMaGang-raeoftheDepartment
areas complain about the low level of social infrastructure
of Urban Planning and Real Estate at Chung-Ang University
compared to metropolitan areas. According to the ¡°Land
said,¡°Smallandmedium-sizedcitiesinnon-metropolitanareas
Monitoring Report 2020¡± published by the Ministry of Land,
gradually decline as the population moves out, but as long as
Infrastructure, and Transport, the average distance from
people live there, the government has no choice but to carry
residence to a general hospital in Seoul was 2.85 km, while
out the regeneration project, putting more and more of the
Gyeongnam, a province in the Southern part of the Korean
budget into it.¡± When the population decreases, the efficiency
peninsula, was the furthest at 31.54 km. In addition, the
ofinfrastructuressuchassewagesystemsandculturalfacilities
proportion of the vulnerable population without a general
also decreases. In addition, there is the problem that the
hospital within a 15 km radius of their residence was only
social maintenance cost borne by individuals increases as the
0.01 percent in Seoul, but 37.5 percent in Gyeongnam. In the
populationusingthefacilitydecreases.ProfessorMaexplained,
transportation field, the six routes of Korea Train Express
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