2011, Vol.68, No.

The Korea Spatial Planning Review 2023 KCI Impact Factor : 1.2

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

The purpose of this paper is to estimate human capital and physical capital of regions and grasp sources and courses of regional growth in Korea for 1987-2007. Physical capital per worker and human capital per worker mainly contributed to the regional growth rate of GRDP per worker for 1987-1997. The change rate of productivity supported the growth rate of GRDP per worker for 1997-2007. Seoul metropolitan area failed to show the highest growth rate of productivity in the total regions for 1987-2007. Regional growth courses reported that the growth of Seoul metropolitan area had expanded to Chungnam and Chungbuk with Kyonggi, which human capital and physical capital have concentrated on. The future regional growth should be progressed toward win-win goal by not concentration to Seoul metropolitan area but to regional specialization in space of national land.

Transportational facilities such as the expressway improves accessibility, which in turn greatly influences the areas which lag behind in terms of social, economical, and cultural development. In Korea, there was concentrated investment on procuring and improving roads for the development of regional cities. The Daejon-Tongyoung expressway opened in November 2001 was also developed for the development of Western Gyeongnam area, where accessibility and development relatively lags behind. There were no oppositions that these improvement in accessibility contributed greatly to regional development. However, the investments in new transportational facilities in recent years have improved the regional accessibility, and there are critics who point out that the so-called "Straw Effect" sucks all the capital which once stayed in the boundaries to the center of the cities, causing negative effects. Likewise, the ripple effect after the construction of expressways show mixed results, but there are still a lack of empirical studies on its ripple effects. This study analyzed how the expressway affected the surrounding ares, focused on areas around Daejon-Tongyoung expressway. In conclusion, no consistency is found in the effects of the highway as there is slightly different effectiveness according to the characteristics of respective regions. That is, although the new highway offers the accessibility between the areas, some negative effects are given to some regions. By offering practical data for the policy decision, the result of this study is expected to contribute to the development of provincial cities.

The purpose of this paper is to identify the leading industries for the economic revitalization for KTX city using location quotient Index, key-sector analysis, and spatial autocorrelation method. This paper finds that only Seoul station, Yongsan station, Osong station, Cheonan-Asan station, Bujeon station, Iksan station, and Singyeongju Station have a few special leading industries. On the other hand, the other stations have not. The regional industrial policies, therefore, may need to be revised to reflect the spatial autocorrelation and industrial linkage. In addition, this paper put the industries of KTX city at seven, such as specialized industry, leading industry, spatially related industry, specialized-leading industry, specialized-spatially related industry, leading-spatially related industry, specialized-leading-spatially related industry, to implications for regional industrial policy.