Basic Report

This study aims to propose the direction of regional policy in the near future,which leads policy makers to new, far-seeing goals and strategies. Particularly, wesuggest policy frameworks according to five policy issues: aging society, climate change,economic cooperation in dimension of economic blocs and co-development, informationtechnology development, and decentralization of regional development policies.This research is composed of two sections. The first part is the identification offuture policy issues and the second part deals with the policy alternatives and strategies.In chapter 2, which is the first part, we withdraw the five main issues based onforesight on recent environmental trends and future development. In order to do that,this research develop the integrated futuristics methodology to explore the sources andpatterns of environmental change. The methodology utilizes eclectically expert survey,in-depth interview, literature review, and heartstorming.This study deals with the five issues respectively on from chapter 3 to chapter 7.Each chapter reports the forseeable future of each phenomenon in terms of koreanspecificity as well as in terms of cosmopolitan outlook and evaluates the policy trendsin advanced countries. Ultimately, each chapter suggests desirable strategies for eachpolicy issue in Korea.In brief, this study presents new policy direction as follows: 1) for the agingsociety issue, the shift from developmental expansion to internal territorialmanagement; 2) for the climate change issue, orientation towards sustainabledevelopment and co-evolution of economy and regional community; 3) for theeconomic cooperation issue, the shift from each region's competitiveness to regions'collaborative strategies utilizing scale economies; 4) for the information technologydevelopment issue, further improvement of IT accessibility; 5) for the decentralizationissue, further enhancement of autotomy in terms of planning and financing based onreciprocal local governance system.