June Sub Park
Professor Lawal Mohammed Marafa
UGEB 2161 Resource Issues in the Age of Globalization
16 April 2015
Seoul as a Mega City: Problems and Solutions
Seoul, located in mid-center region of the Republic of Korea, is the capital and the biggest city of South Korea. After Seoul has been set as the capital city in 1394, it has served its main role as a center of Korea’s political, economic, social and cultural activities. Although the city itself consists 0.6% of the total land area of South Korea, more than 10.5 million people are currently residing in Seoul, which is more than 20% of South Korea’s total population (Seoul Metropolitan Government). This paper examines the history of Seoul’s population transition along with problems resulting
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This price inelastic characteristic of supply is mainly because of three reasons. First, it takes comparatively longer time to produce an additional house. Second, the process of production is complicated because of its connectivity to different industries. Third, the purchase of land and other public services must be preceded before the actual production (Lee). For these reasons of price elasticity, housing problem has to be dealt with different solutions in short run and long run. Not only a simple solution of providing additional house in the short run, but a careful examination at how to accommodate the increasing population along with physical limitation inside the city should be conducted …show more content…
This scheme is primarily for the low income class population, aimed to supply set of demand-focused and personalized public rental housings. Seoul Government is currently loaning 30% of the security deposit and maximum amount of 45 million won, to aid those who are in need. As the plan is to supply large amount of additional houses, method of financing the capital is changing over time. Unlike the 2014 plan which were led by the government, private parties are now participating in acquiring public rental housing, by receiving incentives from the government in the process of construction or purchase. The main reason for this change is because the original plan that required the government to construct, or purchase existing house came to a limitation with the shortage in government funds (Seoul Metropolitan
However, there is usually not enough land or housing for the city's growing population. There is also not enough jobs in the city to keep everyone employed. Poverty increases and jobs give lower and lower pay. The poor live in slums
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The period from 1905 to 1924 is characterized by quite a different group of Korean Immigrants. One part of this group was made up of Koreans who were running from their government and students who were studying in the US. Syngman Rhee, who would become the leader of South Korea during the Korean War, was earning his Ph.D. at Princeton University during this time. About 500 students and political refugees arrived in America (...
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This book is pieced together in two different efforts, one which is to understand the latter history of the post-1945 era with its political liberalization and rapid industrialization period, while at the same time centering its entire text on the question of Korean nationalism and the struggle against the countless foreign invasions Korea had to face. The purpose of this book was composed to provide detailed treatment of how modern Korea has developed with the converged efforts of top eastern and western scholars who wanted to construct a fair overview of Korea's complicated history. Also, the writers wanted to create an updated version of Korea's history by covering the contemporary arena up to the 1990's. The ...
A general situation of urbanization trend in developing countries and developed countries is increasing. In 18th Century only 3% of the world total population lived in urban areas but as projected in 2000 this number will increase at above 50% (UN as cited in Elliot, 1999, p. 144). According to UN (as cited in Elliot, 1999, p.144), it is figured that the total urban population in developing countries has increased from approximately 400 millions people in 1950 to approximately 2000 millions people in 2000. At the same time, total urban population in developed countries is double...
The root cause of the spread is identified as the average cost of development and municipal services. Like low density zoning development, water and sewer connections, or even seemingly ordinary service of average cost pricing makes lower costs in cheap construction. If there is no adjustment to meet the current more nervous and compact city planning objectives, the precious growth management tools would be wasted, and they missed the opportunity to reduce infrastructure costs in the future. In order to stimulate a more compact urban growth model, development costs can be adjusted according to exchange rates or time. In the reform development cost structure, the municipal authorities can make efforts to increase their income by raising the integral development cost income or revenue neutrality by reducing or remitting development costs, and loss of any income was offset by higher development costs of higher income. However, to prevent future fiscal shortfalls and avoid market distortions, development costs should not be lower than the level required to pay for infrastructure
Quality of housing, as housing investment is one of the most important decisions for any households. Quality housing is housing that satisfies certain hum...
Today, here in the United States, we live in a multicultural melting pot where ethnicities around the world are welcome to stay and live. Contrast this to Korea, there is a prevailing idea that homogeneity of the Korean population is essential to keep their cultural and national identity on the peninsula. According to official statistics from Korea’s Ministry of Justice, 1.8 percent of Korea’s 50 million people are foreign citizens with resident status in Korea. The idea of Korean racial purity and xenophobia ultimately results in discrimination and prejudice against foreigners living in Korea and children of mixed Korean blood and is rapidly becoming a social problem that must be dealt with. This can be observed in the 2011 Korean movie Punch (완득이) where despite discrimination and prejudice not being the main topic of the movie, it can be observed as part of the background of the plot.
South Korea, once a broken country filled with broken families, has transformed itself into a fine example of perseverance in a tough situation. South Korea and its neighbor to the north have developed past where they were before the Korean War, but in different ways. The two countries, while certainly dependent on each other, are vastly different. Their conflicting styles of government and their differing cultures speak for themselves in this case. South Korea has, over the years, changed dramatically from the crippled country of the Korean War into a blossoming beacon of Asian cultural and economic changes. The combination of its recent economic importance, its heavy cultural influence, and its constant danger of participating in a war makes South Korea one of the most influential countries in the world.
The history of Seoul (the capital of South Korea) started early as in 18 BC. It was chosen to be the capital of the Baekje Kingdom. After that it has been the capital of many different rulers, which all decide to give the new city its new name. Seoul has a big importance as a city but its real history started during
The level of urbanization of all provinces in Indonesia showed an increase. Five provinces which have enhancement in urbanization, like, Jakarta and East Kalimantan, DI Yogyakarta, North Sumatera and West Java. This is reasonable because the five provinces have the economic attractiveness of higher than other provinces in Indonesia (Chotib, 1997). In the future, the demographers estimate that the process of urbanization in Indonesia will be more due to rural-urban migration. This estimate is based on the natural growth of population in lower in urban areas, the relatively slow pace of change in the status of rural areas into urban areas, as well as the relative strength of economic policy and development, thus increasing the attractiveness of urban areas for people living in rural areas. That is why in the future, the issue of urbanization and mobility or migration becomes difficult to be separated and will be an important issue in the population policy in Indonesia. If in the past and today, the issue of birth (fertility) and death (mortality) still dominate the population policy, in the future when the birth and death rates have become low, family size becomes smaller, and vice versa welfare of the family and society increases, the desire to perform mobility for the majority of the population will increase, and especially towards the urban
...As a member of the Third World, Korea has experienced quite an extreme urbanization. During the time when it was becoming more urbanized, it could achieve a massive economic development. But it also suffered from various urban problems as traffic, pollution, and housing shortage. The government’s effort to restrain urban population growth and develop more balanced society was a good try yet not so successful in reviving rural areas and solving urban problems. The developing countries, which still are in the early stages, can learn a lesson from the urbanization of Korea and develop adequate plans to handle intense urban expansion in the future. Future studies can compare Korean government plans with more successful population redistribution plans in other parts of the world and give suggestions to less developed states about proper plans responsive to urbanization.
Urbanization is related to development of modernization and industrialization signifies an expanding urban population and an extension of the building up territory of cities (Brade, I. ; Kovacs, Z., 2014). From 1949 to 1979, the rate of urbanization rose from 10.64 per cent to 18.96 per cent respectively (the United Nations, 2014). Comparatively, urbanization in 1978 grew triple the rate of the in 1978 , increasing almost 1 percentage point in ever year from 18.96 per cent to 46.6 per cent between 1998 and 2009 that means 622 million people are living in big or small cities and towns (Xinhua Netnews, March 30, 2010). In fact, there is 56.1 per cent of population in China residing in urban areas in 2016 (Xinhua Netnews,2016).