서울 대도시권의 기업본사 입지변화와 이전동향 분석: 1990-2003

Abstract

purpose of the study is to investigate tendencies of the office decentralization and the changing patterns of three major office sub-markets in Seoul. In addition, it is to examine the relocation patterns of the enterprise headquarters in Seoul Metropolitan Area since 1990. For this, we analyzed the location change of the 3,000 largest enterprise headquarters from 1990 to 2003. Also, we performed on-line survey on the reasons for relocation of the enterprise headquarters. The major findings are as follows. First, since 1990s, Kangnam District has become the first major business center of Seoul, surpassing CBD's status in the late 1990s, and then, the spatial hierarchy of business centers in Seoul has been changed to Kangnam-CBD-Youido. However, the CBD is superior to other sub-centers for the 500 largest enterprise headquarters. Second, the relocation of enterprise headquarters in Seoul Metropolitan Area mainly took place inside of Seoul, especially from the CBD to Kangnam District, due to the advantages of business activities including high quality of business environment, well-equipped infra-structure, and provision of various producer service activities, and so on. Third, the major reasons for the relocation of enterprise headquarters include office space expansion, savings of office rental cost, development of new office complexes, and locational integration of the firms in the same enterprise group.