Analysis on change of policies and strategies of new town development in Korea

Abstract

Since the late 1990s, the Korean government is promoting new policies of new town development, such as ecological city, multifunctional administrative city, citizen led enterprise city, innovation city to revitalize local economy, city-rural combination city, international city for free trade market, etc. In this way, new towns in Korea are being constructed for various political purposes through sustainable development methods. But, there are also many negative effects as well as positive effects of new town development. Accordingly, in order to develop sustainable new towns and to achieve a goal of new town development, it is positively necessary that enough precedent research and systematic action plans are preconditioned for a process of converting into a new development planning paradigm.