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This paper aims to explore the methodology for urban disaster vulnerability assessment reflecting four major disasters; river flooding, inland flooding, slope disaster and sediment disaster. There have been few researches to deal with multiple natural disasters in the process of vulnerability assessment. The analysis attempts to pinpoint the development of methodology integrating respective natural disasters with GIS overlapping method. Also, we are focusing on the exploration of relationship between disaster vulnerability and spatial planning in search for environmentally sustainable urban planning.

This paper empirically investigates the effects of human capital externalities in regional labor market on innovation outputs at the firm level by employing hierarchical generalized linear modeling. Previous studies have mainly focused on innovation performances at the firm level; however, few studies have focused on the firms' innovation outputs in the context of regional characteristics. This paper posits three specific research questions: i) whether the characteristics of regional labor market, particularly human capital externalities can affect firms' innovation output, ii) what mechanism leads to human capital externalities in regional labor market, and iii) which types of innovation outputs are affected by various characteristics of human capital externalities in regional labor market. This paper shows that both internal and external R&D investment of firm has a significantly positive effect on innovation outputs. Firms employing foreign workers also represent a higher level of innovation output. We also find that diversity of business and the average level of education positively affect R&D investment.

There has been a rapid growth of Chinese population since mid-1990s. In Seoul, Chinese population now consists of the largest number of foreign population at more than 70%. Previous studies argued that the residential segregation of foreign migrants is associated with the language barriers and cultural differences. This study tried to investigate the extent to which the growth patterns of Korean-Chinese population differs from those of Non-Korean Chinese population, using the Adjusted Dissimilarity Index. The comparison of two ethnic groups revealed that the net growth of Korean Chinese people with no or low language barriers is more affected by the previous segregation pattern than that of Non-Korean Chinese population. The evidence of this study indicates that language and cultural differences have played a limited role in determining the residential segregation of Chinese population.

Basically, the multiplier effects derived from the models of IO(input- output), OO(output-output), and FF(final demand-final output) between total output( x ), final output ( o ), and final demand( f ) are based on the unrestricted(or unconstrained) conditions in financing constraints. However, in the real economic activity, if a new injection program focused on sector  needs a reduction of expenditure in the remaining sectors, for i ≠ j , so as to maintain the total budget constraints of the government. On the basis of the latest research findings and results from the multiplier analysis under constraints in the recent economic literature, the specific objectives of this paper can be summed up as follows. (1) We testify the importance and necessity for the multiplier analysis under constraints through the limitations of the multiplier effects in the models of I(input), IO, OO, and FF. (2) We derive the model for the multiplier analysis under constraints and show the economic characteristics and usefulness of the model developed by the author. (3) We empirically calculated the multiplier effects under constraints by endogenous sectors through the output requirements for final demand(or Leontief inverse Cf ) from the raw data of the 2010 Input-Output Tables of Korea. Moreover, the Pearson correlation coefficients(PCC), rp , and the Spearman’s rank correlation coefficients(SRCC), rs , are calculated between the constrained multipliers and the decompositions of effects.

This study aims to find an impact of growth in our national industrial complex on job creations. Here growth in the complex means not only production but also exports, number of firms, operational rate of firm facility, and size of firms. Research questions are whether these sites of national manufacturing production still play major roles in employment growth. For the case study of eight complex in the nation, a dynamic panel model was used to analyze annual data provided by the Korea Industrial Complex Corp. Our conclusion is that there is no clear-cut findings which support all positive or all negative impacts of growth on job creation. Instead, their impacts differ in different components of growth and different types of industry. Growth in the production shows a positive impact on jobs in the heavy manufacturing and chemical industry, but not in the electrical and electronics industries. In a case of growth in exports, it shows a negative impact on jobs, which differs from general expectations. Two components which show positive impacts on jobs in consistence are a growth in number of firms and a operational rate of firm facility. This implies that government support for entrepreneurship, firm incubation, and attraction of foreign investment, all can be efficient policy of job creation. Support for raising operational rate of firm facilities can also be effective.

This paper analyzed the impacts of existence of leading industries(ID) on regional economic performances. We found that half of the 16 regions in Korea has more than one leading industry. Based on the existence of leading industries, we divided 16 regions into two groups and applied Wilcoxon rank sum test. According to the empirical results, the existence of leading industries has a positive impact on the regional economic growth rate and GRDP per capita. However, when we considered both the existence of leading industries and the ratio of regional representative industries(RI), there is a difference between the group with ID & higher ratio of RI and the group without ID & lower ratio of RI.

This study analyzes the overlapping regulations and satisfaction on land use of the zoning system. The results are as follows. First, the average of zoning designations is 2.01 throughout the country. For example, there are particularly more than 10 zoning districts coincided in the cases of Gwanju. Second, 63.5% of the public believe that the number of zoning regulations is deemed excessive considering the zoning overlay and conflicts. This is followed by ambiguous contents of the regulations (29.6%), complex regulatory procedures (13.9%) and conflict and overlap in regulations (8%). Third, the district that mainly requires the system improvement is the development restricted area(265people). The next districts are plan management district (132people), green natural district (132people) and limited Development Permit Area(99people) in order. Consequently, existing system may need to be transformed to reduce overlapping regulations of zoning, to simplify and integrate the contents of restricted activities and to rationalize the designation criteria and procedures. In addition, the efforts to inform the public that the government has continuously endeavored to develop the system and to suggest effective alternatives are demanded.

There is extensive literature on the urban dimensions of creative industries. However, only a limited number of studies have focused on property development’s contributions to the formation of cultural clusters. That oversight is unfortunate because property development lies at the core of governments’ and developers’ strategies for the promotion of creative industries and cultural clusters. The current study attempts to fill this gap providing a taxomony of cultural quarters based on the relationship between property development and cluster formation. After re-defining three well-known concepts (i.e., scene, quarter, and cluster), we use these concepts to explore four types of cultural quarters: 1) scene-consolidating quarter; 2) scene-displacing development; 3) scene-spatialising quarter; and 4) scene-imitating development.

This study focuses on confirming the validity of the introduction of TIF system as fund financing method, with which the public sectors are able to have an active role for housing redevelopment. First of all, the scale of project was planed by the general planning of refurbishing. And it was necessary to examine the acquisition processes of TIF Funds: Assets-backed Securities(ABS), Local Government Bond(LGB) and Covered Bond(CB). Concretely their issuers, underlying(pledged) asset, issue interest rate, repayment finances etc. are comparatively examined. Finally the Local Government Bond is selected as the most proper funding method. The source of TIF is confined to property tax, local educational taxation, special provisions on property taxation, and city planning tax. As the result, the amount of TIF after calculating the tax increase between undeveloped and developed status of survey areas could sufficiently cover the whole cost of infrastructure implementation of the ones. Namely after designation of the TID, the local government could collect the total cost of infrastructure implementation within 6 ∼7 years. Lastly the proportional rate of TIF business was improved 3%P∼8%P higher than the one of ordinary business. In conclusion, the public sectors introducing the TIF system are able to financially support quite high a portion of the implementation cost of infrastructure, with which the private sectors have still coped. As the result their feasibility of business can be improved and the housing redevelopment will be reactivated.

Development of railway station area has been considered one of the most efficient tools to regenerate inner city area. It provides opportunity to transform under-used area of the city into mixed-use space and to increase the accessibility of transport. However, difficulty of financing in private sector is the main reason why it cannot be carried out widely in practice. On this background, various financing alternatives which consist of equity investment of public sector, Tax Increment Financing (TIF) for the development of railway station area are analyzed. The results of empirical studies show that financing alternative using only TIF is insufficient for development of railway station area even in small-scale development project. On the Contrary, public financing alternative using both equity investment and TIF improve the potential of proposed projects. The results of this study suggest a new approach which is public institutions participation as a strategic investor in development of railway station area for financing.

This study is aimed to examine the tenant characteristics of the shift rental housing among the rental housings currently supplied on the housing size using the ordered logit model. Findings show that the rental housing size is most sensitive to the cost of housing, followed by the tenant's asset, monthly income and the type of previous housing, demonstrating that economical factor is the most important determinant of choosing the housing size. In particular, the tenants of the lease apartments, of which the form is similar to the shift rental housing showed to be increasing the housing consumption. It was identified that the lease apartment, a past form of housing, showed a high correlation in the continuity of the housing with the current shift rental housing. Therefore, taking these changes in the housing market and the various demand classes into consideration, the government needs to induce a natural flow of the market and establish the end-users oriented and economically feasible housing policy for the private and public rental housings.

With the popularity of walking, different branches of the government and local governments have been making a lot of paths for walking including trails, promenades and so on. It is believed to have negative impacts on their surrounding nature and the environment because of excessive exploitation and environmentally-unfriendly path-making procedure. Therefore scientific and systematic construction methods for walking paths are considered crucial for eco-friendly walking paths so that they have the least impact on the environment from the planning of walking paths to the maintenance of them. However, there have been no regulations or environmental assessments on the trail-makings only except a few declaratory guidelines. It has been said that ill-made trails have been causing environmental damages to the ecosystem and the environment of the surrounding areas. To tackle those problems, the followings are suggested that these three regulations – ① Evaluation, ② Certification, ③ Feasibility study - should be introduced to the trail-making projects in Korea. These regulatory policies will contribute to the ecologically-friendly making and maintenance of walking trails.

In the past, most policies regarding rivers put emphasis on flood control systems and water use for economic development. However, a paradigm of river management has been shifted to include variable aspects of river such as ecological, cultural, and historical values. As a result, the opportunity has been increased for people to enjoy variable leisure activities in the river. In this context, this study aims to investigate river use behaviors and suggest the revitalization directions through the analysis of survey research in 12 local rivers. For this, a perception survey of 1,200 local residents was conducted at areas, where a river project is conducted or in progress. The survey contents include characteristics of the respondents, user behavior in river space, and the reason for not using the river, etc. Through the survey, river use characteristics are analysed with different residence period, academic ability, and income. Also, levels of river use in 12 rivers were analysed, and the improvement directions were suggested.