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A detailed examination of the "Korean development model" from its urban dimension, evaluating its sociopolitical contexts and implications for international development cooperation.
There is an increasing tendency to use the development experience of Asian countries as a reference point for other countries in the Global South. Korea's condensed urbanization and industrialization, accompanied by the expansion of new cities and industrial complexes across the country, have become one such model, even if the fruits of such development may not have been equitably shared across geographies and generations. The chapters in this book critically reassess the Korean urban development experience from regional policy to new town development, demonstrating how these policy experiences were deeply rooted in Korea's socioeconomic environment and discussing what can be learned from them when applying them in other developmental contexts.
This book will be of great interest to scholars and researchers in the field of urban studies and developmental studies in general, and in Korea's (urban) development experience in particular.
Chapters 1, 2, 4, and 12 of this book are freely available as downloadable Open Access PDFs at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.
List of contents
1. Introduction: Reconsidering the Korean Urban Development Experience for International Cooperation
Part I: Outlining the Urban Transformation of Korea
2. Transformations in the Governance of Urban and Regional Planning in Korea: From (Neo-)Developmentalism to Civic Democracy, 1965-2020
3. Korea's Regional Development Policy: Understanding Its Context and Drawing Implications for International Development Cooperation
4. Urban Transformation with 'Korean Style': Lessons from Property-based Urban Development
5. From Commodities to Community Engagement: Localities and Urban Development in Seoul, Korea
Part II: Modeling the Korean Urban Development Experience
6. Export Urbanism: Asian Emerging Donors and the Politics of Urban Development Knowledge Sharing
7. A Multitude of Models: Transferring Knowledge of the Korean Development Experience
8. International Urban Development Leadership: Singapore, China and South Korea Compared
Part III: Policies and Institutions of the Korean Urban Development
9. Exporting New City Developments? From New Towns to Smart Cities
10. Housing Policy and Urban Redevelopment in Contemporary Korea
11. Land Development Schemes in South Korea: Background, Structure and Outcome
12. Knowledge-Policy Nexus: Policy Research Institutes and the Urban Development Regime in Korea
13. Engines for Development: Public Development Corporations and Their Role in Urban Development in Korea
About the author
Se Hoon Park is Director of the Global Development Partnership Center, Korea Research Institute for Human Settlements (KRIHS), Republic of Korea.
Hyun Bang Shin
is Professor of Geography and Urban Studies in the Department of Geography and Environment at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), UK.
Hyun Soo Kang is President at the Korea Research Institute for Human Settlements (KRIHS), Republic of Korea.
Summary
Korea's urban and regional development experiences are widely regarded as a success story. This book is a detailed examination of the ‘Korean model’ evaluating its context and implications for international development cooperation.
