한･일 도시 간 경제협력체 구상 ‒부산･후쿠오카 광역경제권 구상을 중심으로‒

Abstract

In 2009, Busan and Fukuoka issued a joint declaration on the formation of cross-border economic region, which is the first time for Korea and Japan in history. Thus, this study aims to analyze this two cities’ industrial structure and subsequently deduct the possibility of regional economic corporation as well as policy implication. Busan and Fukuoka’s industrial structures show great dissimilarity, which implies that exchange between industries will not be promoted actively. In fact, in the joint project stated in Busan-Fukuoka joint declaration, focus is put on the reinforcement of new field’s network rather than on the exploration for collaboration relationship between industries. In other words, the complementary relation of two cities’ center industry, namely wholesale, retail and transport industry, was not taken into consideration. In this sense, instead of continuous growth, the joint project mentioned in the joint declaration can be explained in this way: explore and develop new industries through joint project. This incurred the consequence that formation basis of pan-regional economic region which links South-East economic region and Kyushu economic region based on the Busan-Fukuoka regional economic cooperation cannot be well prepared. Thus, it can be said that issuing joint declaration on regional cooperation with no enough network was the cause of failure. In this context, it requires that network formation needs to be done before implementing the concept of interurban economic cooperation.