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One of the most fundamental features in Korea is the demographic predominance of the cities over the countryside. Urbanization, along with the industrial growth to the accompaniment with it has distingnished the progressive country from the underdeveloped country. In a country that is undergoing economic growth some tendencies contribute to the increasing dominance of urban area. First, the population of urban areas grows faster than the population of rural areas. Second, the geographic expansion and coalescence of urban areas has led to the appearance of massive super cities. Third, Korean gavernment recognizes the necessity of making new urbanization policy for urban service delivery to meet growing citizens service needs. The purpose of this study is to analyze urbanization policy in urban Korea and to suggest distributions with citizens’ growing needs. In analyzing the status and needs of urban service process the basic intent of this study should be noted that urban service delivery by the city government be based on the equity norm, geographically or functionally. The following questions are identified as being critical to understanding the impact of urban service delivery on individual circumstances and evaluating the equity of service provision : ⓐ Are urban governments capable of responding to citizen needs? ⓑ What kind of urbanization policy is successful to responding to citizen needs? ⓒ To what extent do planning activities create inequitable opportunities or access to service distribution? ⓓ To what extent are urban governments able to make proper service organizations and delivery systems to meet citizen demands? For this study, the legitimacy of using urbanization policy evaluation and analying the relationships between citizen demands and service outcomes is measured by statistical method. Eight urban service and two urbanization indicators across 32 cities are evaluated. Patterned inequity in service provision is detected with respect to socio-economic and physical indicators. The study results identify a relationship between urbanization and socio-economic, physical problems, which suggests that urbanization process raise much more urban problems. On the basis of three hardship indices and two measures of service outcomes. this study found out that a city-nation partnership in allocating equally services to citizen must be needed in producing greater responsiveness to backward city.
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