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said, ¡°The expected regional dispersion effect will be realized
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whenrelatedprivatecompanies,majorgovernmentinstitutions,
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and educational institutions move together rather than just
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movingpublicinstitutions.¡±
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Bong-keun
In some cases, government policies are inconsistent. A
significant portion of the government¡¯s balanced development
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budget used to prevent local extinction and alleviate the
phenomenon of expansion in the Seoul capital area has
receivedsubstantialfunding.Ofthe3.3trillionwon(US$2.66
billion)construction cost of the New Ansan Line connecting
¡ãMembersoflaborunionfromlocaluniversitiesheldapressconferencein
Gojan New Town in Ansan and Yeouido in Seoul, 580 billion
frontofBusanCityHalltodemandmeasuresagainstthecollapseoflocal
won (US $ 468.13 billion) has been invested in the balanced
universities.
development budget so far. The balanced development budget
City, and the relocation of public institutions to local areas.
for 69 projects related to the expansion of the metropolitan
However, these government policies did not have much effect.
area¡¯s transportation network, such as the GTX construction
According to an interview with Choi Jun-young, an expert at
and the expansion of the Shinbundang Line, amounted to
the law firm Yulchon, conducted by Sisa Journal, he said, ¡°A
6.9 trillion won (US $ 5.57 billion). This is 30 percent of the
city is not a simple sum of individual elements.¡± According
total 23.2 trillion won (US $ 18.73 billion) of the balanced
to the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport, as of
developmentbudgetallocatedtothetransportationandlogistics
the end of June 2017, of the 33,212 employees of 115 public
sectors.Apartmentpricesinareaswheretheselinespasshave
institutionsrelocatedto10innovativecitiesnationwide,12,567,
doubledinayear.Thebudgetthatshouldbeusedtopreventthe
37.8percentmovedalonewithouttheirfamilies.Thenumberof
expansionintheSeoulcapitalareahasfueledtheexpansionin
employees who moved to innovative cities with their families
theSeoulmetropolitanarea.
was 10,800, 32.5 percent of the total. This means that 7 out
Professor Kim Ho-kyun of the Department of Business
of 10 families still live in other areas, especially in the Seoul
Information at Myongji University said, ¡°The development
capitalarea.Somecriticssaythatsuchapolicycausesfamilies
of new towns in the Seoul capital area is a policy that goes
to live apart and increases the economic burden. ¡°I only see
against the regional balanced development. Even the simple
my father on weekends,¡± said Kim Gyu-gun, a student in the
fact that new town development is an important factor in the
Department of Political Science and International Studies,
concentration of the metropolitan area is not reflected in the
Yonsei University, whose father works in an innovative city in
current government policy or balanced development strategy.
a rural area. This reality shows that the innovative city policy
Itdoesn'tseemtobetakenintoaccount.¡±Amorefundamental
is not fundamentally solving the centralization of the Seoul
solutionisneededtopreventcentralizationintheSeoulcapital
capital area. Regarding this, Professor Lee Min-won of the
areaandachievebalancedregionaldevelopment.
DepartmentofAccountingandTaxationatGwangjuUniversity
In a cramped country with the third-highest population density, over half of the population lives on 11.8 percent of the
country¡¯s land. Expansion in the Seoul capital area is a time bomb that undermines Korea¡¯s competitiveness, along with
socialchaoscausedbyskyrocketinghousingprices,transportationproblems,airpollution,andoverpopulation.However,
nowthatthepopulationoftheSeoulcapitalareahasbecomethemajorityoftheentirepopulationofKorea,politicianswho
havenochoicebuttobeconsciousofvotesarenotactivelyspeakingouttoresolvetheproblems.Thecentralizedstructure
inthecapitalareacanbeeffectiveonthelevelofamiddle-incomecountry,butthereisalimittofurtherdevelopmentfor
anadvancedcountry.Infact,developedcountriessuchastheUnitedStates,France,andGermanyhavearound10percent
oftheirpopulationintheircapitalcitymetropolitanarea.NowthatKoreahasbecomeanadvancedcountry,itisnecessary
toresolveinefficientimbalancesthroughbalanceddevelopmentandawakenthepotentialoflocalregions.
jinseo.kim@hufs.ac.kr
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