2004, Vol.43, No.

The Korea Spatial Planning Review 2023 KCI Impact Factor : 1.2

pISSN : 1229-8638
https://journal.kci.go.kr/krihs

The Gaeseong Industrial Park as a special economic zone in North Korea has a significant meaning as a strategic area for inter-Korean cooperation and international economic cooperation. This study aims at suggesting the development strategies for the Gaeseong Industrial Park in the aspects of inter-Korean economic cooperation and economic cooperation in Northeast Asia. In the short-term, the Gaeseong Industrial Park should be developed as a light industry park based on the complementarity of production factors between the two Koreas. In the mid and long-term, it should be developed in the connection with new industries in the metropolitan area in South Korea. Also, the tour course connected between the Gaeseong Industrial Park and the Imjin River Area will be needed. In the long-term, Inchoen could be a center of manufacturing-related producer services to the Gaeseong Industrial Park. The Hong Kong-Shenzhen case is instructive for creating cooperation models of Inchoen-Gaeseong economic cooperation. In the aspect of economic cooperation of Northeast Asia, the Gaeseong Industrial Park should make a new economic relationship with Free Trade Zones in Qingdao, Tianjin and Dalian in China. IT and electronics could be major strategic industries for the Gaeseong Industrial Park. Also, historic tour connecting Gaeseong, Qingdao, Tianjin and Dalian could be a chance to the Gaeseong Industrial Park. However, resolving North Korea's nuclear problem is the most important issue for the success of the Gaeseong Industrial Park because tension over its nuclear program and investors' doubts about the wisdom of doing business in a communist nation with a moribund economy could delay the project.

Current regional development programs for less-developed regions have shortcomings, such as overlapped investment, arbitrary budget sharing, top-down process, etc. and also, are not enough to provoke voluntary driving force for development due to individual execution by different central government departments. As one of solutions to solve these problems, Presidential Committee on Balanced National Development has launched Revitalizing Program with Ministry of Government Administration and Home Affairs to provoke internal development ability and selected 70 local governments as Revitalizing Region. This paper tries to examine background of this program focusing on problems of current regional development programs, and suggest desirable support and driving procedure for this program.

We are often confronted with decision-making problems in planning and location analysis of public facilities: How to select effectively the optimum location among various alternatives (sites) or how to rank such alternatives according to their advantage and importance. As one of technical methods for the effective decision making, the Multiple Attribute Decision Making (MADM) method has been developed and widely used. In this paper, we examined location analysis for new fire stations using the MADM method based on data of fire service manpower (the number of fire officials), equipment (the number of facilities), fire statistics (fire incidence), access (road condition) and cooperation with other agencies in Jinju and Sacheon area. Based on such data, we selected the best alternatives using TOPSIS and HAW. In this study, the AHP method and the Entropy method were used for weighting and locations alternatives for fire stations were evaluated.