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Korean cities experienced rapid growth around 1940. This study positively identifies that Japanese population was the main cause of the urbanization. Hosts of Japanese engineers and businessmen came to the Korean cities in the late 1930s. They contributed to Korean industrialization and urbanization. Commerce was less activated than industry at that time. The railroad system played the role that supported industry and commerce. The southern region of the Korean peninsular, which was agriculturally specialized, was relatively depressed comparing with the Seoul metropolitan area and Hamgyeong Provinces where the industry was activated. The large-scale outflow of peasants that Korea experienced in the late 1930s seems to be a normal process in the course of capitalist development.

The purpose of this study is to draw the calculating indexes of city capacity and apply in practice. The 30's indexes as the primary calculating indexes of city capacity were chosen from the 750's indexes. The 12's final indexes including 'air clearness' were selected by a survey on the experts. And then the weights of the indexes were calculated by the AHP(Analytic Hierarchy Process). The analysis showed that in upper hierarchy, the weight of infrastructure category was 0.515, that of environment category was 0.319 and that of culture-finance category was 0.166. In subclassification, the weight of public transportation capacity was 0.118 and it was the highest among the indexes. Finally, this study drew the capacities of the 7's metropolis in Korea based on the indexes and weights. The process of analysis consisted of data reduction, data standardization and calculating city capacity. It is expected that this study will give a clue to planning related to 'Green City' and 'Energy Saving City'.

A proposition of this research is that despite of deindustrialization in a current regional economy, an export-based manufacturing industry will continue to lead future growth of our regional economy. In order to maximize economic impact of growth in a local manufacturing industry, however, we need to find out exact relationship between manufacturing and service industry in a region and invest more on services with big impacts of manufacturing growth, but which have poor business infrastructure. A case study of Gyeongnam indicates that its export-based industry of mechanical-engineering provides them with large impact on production and employment of distributive- and producer-service industry. Nevertheless, impact on individual- and social-service industry has been found relatively low. Despite of such a big impact of manufacturing on the growth of distributive- and producer-service industry, however, almost half of them flows out to other region, a capital region in particular, since its business infrastructure is relatively poor. Our research outcome suggests a policy implication that If Gyeongnam region can develop their distributive- and producer-service industry and support their export manufacturing industry, its regional economy will grow much faster than expected.

In 2009, a new󰡒Output-Output(OO) model and table󰡓were developed and constructed by the author for the 2000 Input-Output Tables of Korea to solve the consecutive connection problem and the limit on net multipliers together, which was introduced first by Oosterhaven and Stelder(2002), through the output requirements matrix for output derived from the decomposition by factors in the Input-Output(IO) model. On the basis of the latest research findings and results in the economic literature on Output-Output analysis, the specific objectives of this study can be summarized as follows. (1 ) We clarify the interdependent relationship between final demand(), total output(), and final output() through a new circulation system of production based on IO, OO, and FF(final demand-final output) models. (2) We derive three types of Output-Output multipliers: ① total output-final output multipliers(), ② total output-total output multipliers(), and ③ final output-final output multipliers() on the basis of the newly developed Output-Output model, and then we explore the characteristics and economic meanings of the three different multipliers developed by the above. (3) We examine the economic interpretations and compare the differences among the Output-Output multipliers, which have the different interindustry relationships of multi-sector multiplier, for the 2007 Input-Output Tables of Korea compiled by the Bank of Korea. The major findings from the empirical analysis are followed below. (1) When comparing the averages of multiplier effects, it was shown in general that >>. (2) The Spearman's rank correlation coefficients (SRCC) between the multipliers showed fairly higher (positive) correlations.

Industrial complexes have shown significant roles in advancing Korean manufacturing. Especially the national industrial complexes are regarded as driving forces of Korean economy. At this juncture, it is meaningful to measure the efficiency of the national industrial complexes and evaluate what areas should be considered to improve the efficiency of the complexes. This study uses the DEA models to measure the efficiency of the national industrial complexes. Malmquist Productivity Index is also used to evaluate the productivity changes of the complexes for last 10 years. Malmquist Productivity Index shows the change of efficiency for a certain period in terms of the change of technical efficiency and technical change. The study provides the effects of the changes of technical efficiency and productivity of the national industrial complexes and suggests policy implications.

Kleingarten is drawing people’s attention as a co-prosperous alternative that meets urban citizens’ demand for rural life and activates rural areas. One of reasons for this trend is the change of contemporary urban residents’ lifestyle toward Multi-habitation, which pursues semi-sedentary life coming and going between cities and rural villages. This study conducted a questionnaire survey of specialists based on the analysis of current field situations in Korea and other countries and suggested strategies for improving existing Kleingartens and future directions for planning Kleingartens suitable for the current situation of Korea. According to the results of this study, first, complexes of proper size for promoting community should be built up through selecting sites and planning the complexes in consideration of local characteristics and natural landforms. Second, complexes of standard type and large-scale type were suggested for the size and design of complexes suitable for the current situation of Korea. Third, it is urgently required to install environment-friendly agricultural facilities (farming tool storages, compost storages, recycling rooms, etc.) and administrative spaces (management offices, multi-purpose spaces, barbeque grounds, etc.) for common use.

The purpose of this study was to analyze the Risk and Cointegration of Housing Reverse Mortgage using VECM. The VECM included such variables as housing pension user, CD interest rate, call interest rate, risk premium, inflation rate using monthly data from July 2007 to June 2011. The major findings are as follows : 1) If the bank supply Housing Reverse Mortgage with CD loans such as short term to offer long term loan such as housing reverse mortgage, it will be faced increasing risks and Housing pension of profit margin was significantly lower than other mortgage loans. 2) Results of Cointegration of Housing Reverse Mortgage showed that there existed a long-run equilibrium. The long-run relation of CD interest rate for key variables influence showed that call interest rate and risk premium were positive impact on CD rate, but inflation rate and user were negatively effect. 3) The results of Impulse response function and error variance decomposition by VECM were found that the relation of CD and call were interact with each other sent and received. in addition, proved a significant relations each other of risk premium and CD rate. We had an opportunity to demonstrate that there existed risks of bank and HP users. If CD interest rate fluctuated, call interest rate would be one of the policy options and it is necessary for stable operation of Housing Reverse Mortgage to require additional policy considerations.

This study measures effects of an additional subway line and free inter-modal transfer system on number of subway riders of existing line in the case of Daegu metropolitan city. These effects are measured by the transformed functions of the general regression techniques. The seasonal variations of the number of subway riders were also estimated. The three main results of this study are follows. First, the additional subway line induces 16.24% or 733,226 riders (monthly base) to the existing subway line. Second, the free-transfer system increases 3.5% or 181,775 riders (monthly base) to the existing subway line. Third, there are considerable seasonal variations in subway riders. Based on these findings, some policy implications were suggested.

Social overhad captial like highways and metro subways enhance accessibility of its passing route so, it bring up positive effects on regional economy. Lots of prior researches studied whether opening of highways have a positive effects on regional economy, land use and financial viewpoints. Our study set up two hypothesis and testify its results using quasi-experimental methods. Main results are like these. First, opening of metro subway lines have a positive effects on population increase. Second, contrary of prior researches concering highways, metro subways didn't bring out increasing effects on regional economy. Third, negative effects of social overhead capital co called, straw effect can be observed by empirical researches. In this study, we can find out comprehensive effects of metro subway lines. Policy makers have to make development strategy considering its negative effects.