Exporting Urban Korea?
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. Koreas 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 Koreas 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 Koreas (urban) development experience in particular.
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.
Routledge Advances in Korean Studies
41. Megacity Seoul
Urbanization and the Development of Modern South Korea
Yu-Min Joo
42. Korean Adoptees and Transnational Adoption
Embodiment and Emotion
Jessica Walton
43. Digital Development in Korea, Second Edition
Lessons for a Sustainable World
Myung Oh and James F. Larson
44. The State, Class and Developmentalism in South Korea
Development as Fetish
Hae-Yung Song
45. Development Prospects for North Korea
Edited by Tae Yong Jung and Sung Jin Kang
46. The Road to Multiculturalism in South Korea
Ideas, Discourse, and Institutional Change in a Homogenous Nation-State
Timothy C. Lim
47. Healing Historical Trauma in South Korean Film and Literature
Chungmoo Choi
48. Exporting Urban Korea?
Reconsidering the Korean Urban Development Experience
Se Hoon Park, Hyun Bang Shin and Hyun Soo Kang
For more information about this series, please visit: www.routledge.com/Routledge-Advances-in-Korean-Studies/book-series/SE0505
Exporting Urban Korea?
Reconsidering the Korean Urban Development Experience
Edited by
Se Hoon Park, Hyun Bang Shin and Hyun Soo Kang
First published in English 2021
by Routledge
2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RN
and by Routledge
52 Vanderbilt Avenue, New York, NY 10017
Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business
2021 selection and editorial matter, Se Hoon Park, Hyun Bang Shin and Hyun Soo Kang; individual chapters, the contributors
The right of Se Hoon Park, Hyun Bang Shin and Hyun Soo Kang to be identified as the authors of the editorial material, and of the authors for their individual chapters, has been asserted in accordance with sections 77 and 78 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.
All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers.
Trademark notice: Product or corporate names may be trademarks or registered trademarks, and are used only for identification and explanation without intent to infringe.
British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data
A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
A catalog record has been requested for this book
ISBN: 978-0-367-49840-5 (hbk)
ISBN: 978-1-003-04759-9 (ebk)
Typeset in Galliard
by Newgen Publishing UK
Contents
Se Hoon Park, Hyun Bang Shin and Hyun Soo Kang
PART I
Outlining the urban transformation of Korea
Mike Douglass
Won Bae Kim
Hyun Bang Shin
Bla Krinik and Su Kim
PART II
Modeling the Korean urban development experience
Jamie Doucette and Farwa Sial
Cuz Potter and Jinhee Park
Hyung Min Kim, Julie Miao and Nicholas A. Phelps
PART III
Policies and institutions of Korean urban development
Yu-Min Joo
Seong-Kyu Ha
Seohwan Lim
Se Hoon Park
Jieun Kim
Jamie Doucette is Senior Lecturer in Human Geography, Department of Geography, The University of Manchester, also serves as Chair of the Cities, Politics, Economies Research Group and is a member of the senior leadership team of the Manchester Urban Institute. His interests include the geographical political economy of development and democratization, the nexus between developmentalism and urban space, and labor geography. He teaches courses on geographies of globalization and Asian labor studies. He has published widely in geography and Asian Studies, with articles in Progress in Human Geography, Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, Political Geography, Journal of Asian Studies, Journal of Korean Studies, Critical Asian Studies, and elsewhere. His research has won awards, such as the Journal of Contemporary Asia Prize 2017 and a Leverhulme Trust Research Fellowship. He is the editor (with Bae-Gyoon Park) of Developmentalist Cities? Interrogating Urban Developmentalism in East Asia (Brill, 2019).
Mike Douglass is Emeritus Professor and former Chair of the Department of Urban and Regional Planning, University of Hawaii, and former Director of the Globalization Research Center. He received his PhD in urban planning from UCLA. From 20122018 at the National University of Singapore, he was Professor and Leader of the Asian Urbanisms Cluster in the Asian Research Institute and Professor of Sociology in the LKY School of Public Policy. He has held senior positions in the United Nations and has been a consultant for major international donor agencies as well as national and local governments in Asia. His recent publications include The Rise of Progressive Cities East and West (Springer Singapore, 2019), Cities in Asia by and for the People (Amsterdam University Press, 2018), Disaster Justice in Urbanising Asia-Pacific (Springer Singapore, 2018) and Disaster Governance in Urbanising Asia (2016).