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A Case Study on Residents’ Conflict in Newly-built Town: Focusing on a Multi-functional Administrative City

  • Korean Society and Public Administration
  • Abbr : KSPA
  • 2017, 27(4), pp.269-296
  • Publisher : Seoul Association For Public Administration
  • Research Area : Social Science > Public Administration

Joon-Young Hur 1 문지은 2

1한국행정연구원
2서울대학교

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ABSTRACT

The new administrative city, Sejong New Town, which serves as the administrative capital, has been designated as such by the majority of ministries and agencies and their families since 2012. Accordingly, as the new self-sufficient town, it is rapidly expanding. However, as construction of the new town concentrated within a short period of time following the government plan, the conflict between large-scale migrants and residents has emerged as a crucial task to foster conflict resolution and social integration. We selected typical three cases of conflict between migrants and residents in Sejong new town (Change of 'Beopjeongdong' name, plan for new city hall construction, change of Sungnam middle school name), analyzed these cases from the perspective on conflict management with structural, relational, and managerial characteristics of conflict. Using case studies, this paper identified the structure of conflict centers around the two groups: migrants and residents, and the administrative agencies, which are responsible for conflict management, lacks preventive role and active coordination efforts, so conflicts remain unsolved. Also, we found aside from conflict about change in property right, interests and compensation, there were greater conflicts on cultural, emotional identities. It is likely that there will be different approaches to conflict management, unlike the conflict involving political or economic interests, the cultural or identity conflicts between disparate groups.

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