Abstract
Jun M.-J. (2007) Korea's public sector relocation: is it a viable option for balanced national development?, Regional Studies 41, 65–74. An empirical model combining economic, demographic, and migration models was built in order to analyse the effectiveness of public sector relocation plans for balanced national development. Five different relocation scenarios were tested. The major findings were as follows. First, relocating about 40 000 public sector jobs from the Seoul Metropolitan Region (SMR) to non-SMR regions (scenarios 2–5) is not sufficient to reverse the SMR population concentration trend by 2030. Second, relocating central governmental functions (9992 employees) to the Chungnam region has little impact on mitigating SMR population concentration and on attaining balanced national development. Third, the relocation plan proposed by the Korean government, which is scenario 2, alleviates the population concentration by decreasing the SMR population by 5.4%, but many non-capital regions lose their p...
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