Addressing Korea's urban challenges through urban regeneration and smart city solutions

This chapter examines Korea’s urban challenges from the perspective of urban regeneration and smart city solutions. It assesses the strengths and weaknesses of the urban regeneration strategies to revitalise cities. It underlines the need to align labour market, business development, transport, inward investment and social policies to reinforce urban regeneration strategies and ensure sustainable outcomes for the long-term. Critically, this chapter discusses the links between housing policy and urban regeneration programmes as it stresses that housing policies require an integrated approach to build more inclusive cities. The chapter highlights the need for a long term thinking and local leadership in urban regeneration to be successful. Finally, the chapter analyses how Korea is using smart city technologies and strategies to build resilient, liveable and inclusive cities. It stresses Korea’s international leadership on the area while acknowledging that could use smart city developments to promote service innovation. The chapter concludes with proposals to use smart city platforms for urban development.