This paper attempts to criticize the new capital relocation project by the government which is emphasizing balanced regional development and decentralization strategies out of the capital region. It reviewed that national development strategies for la...
This paper attempts to criticize the new capital relocation project by the government which is emphasizing balanced regional development and decentralization strategies out of the capital region. It reviewed that national development strategies for last forty years based upon the growth pole strategies have resulted in rapid economic growth in the bright side as well as regional disparities and regional fragmentation in the dark side. Spatial integration strategies have been pointed out as a kind of necessary solution against those problems for Korea as well as the developing countries towards more homogeneous space. The national development policies have been shifted from balanced space toward multi-layered space. It suggests that spatial integration strategies based on nodality concept should be more significant than ones based on homogeneity concept that were outdated in developed countries.