Local Autonomy in South Korea

Anderson, Chad

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-31816-5_3816-1

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“…South Korea was selected as being outside of the European Union and United States focus that has dominated much of the planning research. Seoul was selected because of its important relationship among Korean cities and role in setting the priorities and trends in other cities through its size, influence, and its relative independence [32]. The time period was selected due to the data available that would match a succession of the entire administrations in order to examine the relationship between development and research trends over time.…”

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Smart, Sustainable and Citizen Centered: A Network Analysis of Urban R&D Trends in Seoul, South Korea

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Although it is now recognized that place matters for urban development policy, most case studies focusing on particular cities tend to adopt a high-level perspective that imperfectly captures the full spectrum of context-relevant urban development issues. This study applies semantic network analysis to a corpus of 13,852 accepted R&D project proposals on issues related to the urban development of Seoul, South Korea. Through our analysis, we highlight important research trends and also make connections between these trends and the policy orientation and priorities of successive mayoral administrations over a period of 16 years. Although the results suggest that there is significant overlap between policy orientation and scientific research activity, the interests of research scientists cannot be reduced entirely to political priorities. The study contributes to the literature by fusing the place-based approach to urban development studies with the computational content analysis methodology. We raise several questions for future research, including questions about the relationship between policy priorities, scientific research, and academic research.

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