The Korea Local Administration Review

The purpose of this paper is to compare and analyze the characteristics of development promotion zone adopted in Young Sam Kim’s administration and new revitalizing regions adopted in Moo Hyun Roh’s administration from a perspective of adopting new policies. Specifically, it is focused on the understanding of the policy issues, ideas as policy alternatives to solve these issues, the channels of polices, and the detailed goals when the policies of development promotion zone and new revitalizing regions were adopted. The reason why development promotion zone could be adopted is that the Young Sam Kim’s administration recognized the limit of the development policies for certain areas as the necessity for developing the underdeveloped zones had been appeared and this recognition of problems was combined with the ideas as policy alternatives that are development promotion zones. However, the idea was constrained and the development promotion zones for developing certain areas that had been used was re-used. Conclusively, the goal of policy has been changed from resource development into development for underdeveloped areas. On the other hand, the reason why policy of new revitalizing regions could be adopted was that new momentum of policy change was necessary as limit of policies for developing underdeveloped areas such as islands development, hinterlands development, resources development in border areas and development promotion regions etc. was recognized. The recognition of problems could be merged with ideas as policy measure, which is the new revitalizing regions based on regional innovation. As a result, it can be said that the goal of policy has been changed from hardware development into software development and the policy means have been changed from regional development method into regional innovation centered method.

□ Keywords: development promotion zone, new revitalizing regions, policy change