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Regional Policy and National Development in Korea
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- Issue Date
- 2014
- Citation
- Korean Journal of Policy Studies, Vol.29 No.1, pp. 101-122
- Keywords
- national development ; regional policy ; decentralization ; local administration
- Abstract
- This paper analyzes regional and decentralization policy in Korea
since 1970s. Each administration in the last 40 years has taken a distinctive
approach to regional and decentralizaton policy. The 1970s and 1980s featured a
highly centralized system that local administrations contributed to by following
central directives and mandates, and the policies that emerged as a result of the
Saemaeul movement were important in addressing rural poverty under the Park
administration. During the 1990s under the Kim Young-sam and the Kim Daejung
administrations, regional policy amounted to regional even-development, and
decentralization policy came to underpin regional policy. The Noh administration
was the most active in developing simultaneous regional even-development and
decentralization policies. The Lee administration changed the equity-oriented
direction of the regional policy pursued by the Noh administration to an efficiency-oriented one.
The regional policies discussed in this paper have been amended over time
and in line with different political and economic circumstances in an attempt to
generate relationships between the central government and local governments that
will enable the country to achieve national goals in an efficient and effective way.
- ISSN
- 1225-5017
- Language
- English
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