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Keywords: Industrial city, city diagnosis, specialization

The purpose of the study is to diagnose current status of industrial cities in Korea and to derive policy implications for securing competitiveness and sustainable growth of these industrial cities. Focused on two aspects of industrial cities, economic structure and urban environment, eight representative Korean industrial cities were diagnosed: Ulsan, Pohang, Geoje, Asan, Dangjin, Gumi, Yeosu and Gwangyang. For economic structure diagnosis, targeted cities were analyzed focused on their core manufacturing industry’s status and its trend of specialization or diversification during largely from 1990 to 2010. Overall social and economic status and its changes were also investigated. Various indices and method were adapted to the analysis their level of specialization and diversification: Locational Quotient index, Herfindahl-Hirschman index, Ogive index, Enthropy maximization method and so on. Davis, Haltwinger and Schuh’s analyzing method (D.H.S analysis) was also adapted to figure out their job create and destruction status. Based on results, the study performed further analysis on the relationship between characteristic of economic structure and job stability and effects of core industry’s decline on local economy. On the other hands, to diagnose cities’ condition of physical environment, the study developed and applied analyzing framework consist of 22 indices in three dimensions: everyday life basis, economic basis and innovation basis.

SUMMARY 191 Major research findings are as follows. First, change of the number of employees affected that of population. It means that change of employees and population was linked each other. Second, the targeted cities’ core industry concentration had been increased from 1999 to 2010 except for Yeosu and Gwangyang, comparatively old industrial cities. Third, manufacturing industry’s level of specialization had been lowered, but overall industry’s level of diversification had been increased. Forth, Core manufacturing industry’s job creating effect was not high except for Asan, newly formed industrial city. Asan showed high job creating capacity from 1999 to 2010. Fifth, overall industry’s high level of diversification help to relieve job un-stability, however, manufacturing industry’s diversification does not have any statistical significance on job stability. Sixth, the results of urban environment diagnosis showed that eight cities showed wide-deviation on innovation basis and economical basis, but their level of everyday life basis were not largely different. Based on these research findings, the study suggests five policy implications for securing industrial city’s competitiveness and sustainable growth. First, Smart-specialization strategy is required. Second, structure advancement strategy and regeneration strategy are needed to fostering knowledge-based industry. Third, local authority-led strategy on re-organizing local economic structure is needed along with wide participation of citizen and enterprises. Forth, new model of industrial city is required to realize the integrated cooperation between local and enterprises in various fields. Fifth, establishment of law (industrial city development law) should be considered to provide firm basis for continuous development of these industrial cities, bringing more power and responsibility to the local authority and initiatives.

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