신행정수도 이후 대책의 방향 설정과 과제

Abstract

The spatial uneven development and over-concentration of population and industries into the Capital region, resulted from the process of rapid economic growth and national land development since the 1960s, have seemed not only to prevent continuous development of the Capital region but also to weaken the national competitiveness. The plan of construction of new administrative capital that the current Participatory government had pursued to resolve those problems was interrupted by the decision of its violence of constitution in the Constitutional Court in October 2004. And hence a serious reappraisal on the plan is required to establish directions and tasks for pursuing succeeding measures. This paper re-examines the intended purposes of the plan, that is, necessities of resolution of over-concentration into the Capital region and of the national balanced development, and then discusses alternative measures and visions to meet them. In particular, though admitting the necessities for succeeding measures after the plan of new administrative capital, this paper points out that major contents of succeeding measures which have been suggested recently ignore endogenous development of regions and geographical connectivity between them, and hence argues for active reflection of substantial contents upon the plan.