Abstract
The purpose of this article is to discuss the inter-urban linkage between the non-capital cities in Korea and Japan, focusing on the relationships between Fukuoka and Busan, as part of an empirical research on the internationalization of non-capital cities in East Asia. We attempt to subdivide international trade activities of firms and analyze foreign destinations based on cities. The linkage between Busan and Fukuoka mainly sits at the apex of the international urban system, from the perspective of the gateway of 'Physical Distribution' and 'Business Trip'; however, links to Tokyo and Osaka mostly act as 'Transaction' and functional cores such as sales channels. Fukuoka airport and Shimonoseki port have been utilized as a gateway. Fukuoka Airport has a promising evaluation concerning accessibility and convenience. Shimonoseki port has certain advantages due to the short time required for customs formalities, brevity of the shipping time and convenient daily shipping schedules.
Highlights
The purpose of this study is to discuss how non-capital cities in Asia can eradicate disparities and surmount contexts that they lagged behind respective national primary cities
Аbstract: The purpose of this article is to discuss the inter-urban linkage between the non-capital cities in Korea and Japan, focusing on the relationships between Fukuoka and Busan, as part of an empirical research on the internationalization of non-capital cities in East Asia
As an example model of a transboundary economic cooperation in East Asia, the authors focused on the concept of Cross Border Metropolis between Busan and Fukuoka (CBM-BF), since both cities have been implementing major and minor joint cooperation projects in a lot of domains at local administrative level, for the long term
Summary
The purpose of this study is to discuss how non-capital cities in Asia can eradicate disparities and surmount contexts that they lagged behind respective national primary cities. As an example model of a transboundary economic cooperation in East Asia, the authors focused on the concept of Cross Border Metropolis between Busan and Fukuoka (CBM-BF), since both cities have been implementing major and minor joint cooperation projects in a lot of domains at local administrative level, for the long term. They are geographically and historically adjacent (Georgieva, 2016; Dimitrov, 2016; Park and Fujimura 2016). The vast majority of those models have equivalent contexts in several aspects: (1) respective models have been driven by central governments and institutions; (2) most Asian countries have aspired to take initiatives for their respective countries in the main industries that would lead to economic growth, so that they initiated economic collaboration in growing and creative industries, such as IT, finance, fashion, design, automobile, etc. (Park and Fujimura 2016)
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