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- Title
Residential mobility in the Seoul metropolitan region, Korea
- Authors
Kwong, Y.; Lee, J.
- Abstract
The spatial pattern of residential mobility in Korea is found to be one of intraregional rather than interregional movement. Net inmigration has taken place only in the Seoul metropolitan region (SMR) since1970. People from the Cholla region have formed the main stream of net inmigration into the SMR. The decentralization of population from Seoul to Kyonggi and Inchon has generated a transformation of the Seoul urban fringe since 1970. This metropolitanization process is accompanied by residential and employment suburbanization to 45 kms from the center of Seoul. Residential mobility in the SMR is the result of metropolitan job opportunities, availability of housing, and the effects of the various regional policies. Availability of transportation between Seoul and its urban fringe encouraged the wide expansion of the urban areas and population redistribution within the SMR.
- Subjects
RESIDENTIAL mobility; URBANIZATION
- Publication
GeoJournal, 1997, Vol 43, Issue 4, p389
- ISSN
0343-2521
- Publication type
Article