Garnering unconventional but creative thoughts through unique life styles, the creative city idea has a great potential to change our civilization (Landry, 2005). A creative city is considered as a place for extensively creative and ecological conditi...
Garnering unconventional but creative thoughts through unique life styles, the creative city idea has a great potential to change our civilization (Landry, 2005). A creative city is considered as a place for extensively creative and ecological conditions that promote both creativity and prosperity (Florida, 2002).
During the last five local elections in Korea, various policy options for promoting creative cities were proposed. Recently, the discussion on creative cities emerged as a core idea for successful implementation of creative national economy. While the idea of creative cities became a popular political agenda, it lacks practical and detailed plans for successful implementation. If the sufficient study, review and application process on creative city are omitted, it is likely that the financial resources will be wasted and most citizens' life will be negatively affected. Here is the reason for the study on the establishment of concept of `Korean creative city' and its implementation.
In this point of view, after this study had examined the creative city theories established by overseas scholars, it attempted to propose the model of Korean creative city, through examinations of domestic and global cases and other books, and also analyze the verification of actual applicability and capability of creative city per region.
This study was largely carried out by methods of analysis on primary factor, regression analysis, Z-Score and association analysis. By the results of the analysis in primary factor on the creative city indication deduced from the study of books and cases, the six deduced factors per characteristics were divided into city based capacity, culture and art capacity, study capacity, convergence capacity, creativity capacity, participation capacity.
By the dependent variable of the six creative city capacity deduced from the regression analysis, which was implemented in order to verify the creative city factors to impact on each capacity.
Next, Z-Score analysis was carried out to convert six factors deduced from analysis in primary factor into creativity factor. By the result of analysis in creativity index of city based capacity, most region of metropolitan Ulsan is classified to have more capacity than strong regions. and also the region around Seoul Metro City showed relatively weak.
The examination on the creativity index of culture and art capacity was analysed that the very strong region was concentrated on Jongro-gu and Joong-gu in Seoul. It was also analysed that Joong-gu of Daegu Metro City, Ganghwa-gun of Incheon Metro City, and Dong-gu of Gwangju Metro City were classified into very strong regions.
But as there were many areas which were classified into relatively weak regions, so it was analysed that the capacity on culture and art was largely shown to be low. By the result of analysis in creativity index of study capacity, it was analysed that the study complex centered on condensed area showed very strong. Something unusual was Daedeok-gu which was much stronger than Yooseong-gu, Daejeon in study capacity.
By the result of analysis in creativity index of convergence capacity, the Metropolitan area is higher than outside of its area in convergence capacity.
In Seoul Metro City, it was analysed that industrial complex showed strong trend and foreigners condensed area centered on Itaewon emerged very strong. By the result of analysis in creativity index about creative capacity, it was shown that area differentiation didn't lean too much, from very strong to weak trend.
The dispersion of creative industry, its related infrastructure, and industry in Korea shows no lean towards region. In other words, it can be interpreted that each region concentrates only on investment and fostering for creative capacity. Throughout the analysis in creativity index of participation capacity, Seoul Metro City is shown behind the capacity of other city. And Incheon Metro City is strongly indicated in participation capacity.
Finally, by the result of cluster analysis in creative city in Metropolitan Seoul and other main 6 metropolitan cities, they were classified into five cities including study-participating city, creativity-participating city, convergence-participating city, city based-participating city, and culture and art-creativity city.
According to the results of the analysis per theory, for the creative city which were understood only by concept for the time being, it was shown that actually related component was deduced so that it might make possible capacity analysis of creative city per region. This result of study is considered to suggest various applications in the study of policies related to the creative city and academic studies which are driven by each local government in the future.