The Rise of the Lifestyle City

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모종린
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Name in Latin Alphabet: Jongryn Mo
Nationality: Republic of Korea
Affiliation: Yonsei University


강연 소개

The history of Korean economic development is well-known. Since the 1960s, the so called developmental state model has propelled Korea to become one of the wealthiest countries in Asia. The developmental state has been so successful that its key elements, industrial policy, export promotion and business-government cooperation are still deeply embedded in the institutions and culture of the Korean economy. In 2010, however, the Korean model of development began to show signs of stress and it has now become a consensus that Korea must look for a new model of sustained economic growth as its main locomotive, the manufacturing export industries of electronics, chemicals, automobiles, shipbuilding and machinery, stopped growing in the face of intense competition from lost cost Chinese producers as well as high tech Japan and US exporters.

The Rise of the Lifestyle City offers a devolution-led growth model as an alternative to the developmental state. It is one of several new proposals including the middle class growth model, the welfare society, and the reform of chaebol corporate governance. The lifestyle (city) state is a state that promotes economic growth based on regional, rather than, central government industrial policy. Each city in the lifestyle state will develop and promote its own local industries and industrial eco-systems based on its lifestyle and comparative advantages. In the past, provisional cities played a subordinate role in economic developmental; they shipped labor and talent to national industries in return for plants and investments in the local economy. Under the lifestyle city model, local cities take the center stage, competing with each other in producing new growth industries, and new 'national' industries emerge out of market-based competition among local industries.

Jeju has emerged as a prototype lifestyle city since 2010. Based on its own lifestyle of nature, health and well-being, Jeju has developed new natural cosmetic (Innisfree) and green tea (O'Sulloc) industries, boosting not only local employment but also its own brand image as home to creative lifestyle companies and businesses. Other cities in Korea like Busan, Jeonju, Gangreung, and Gyeongju are following in Jeju's footsteps, attracting tourists and new businesses with their attractive urban culture. As the number of lifestyle cities grow, Korea will have a more diverse and decentralized economy and will produce more cultural and creative industries on the basis of more diversified cultural portfolios and assets.

Unfortunately, the Korean government is slow to recognize the potential of lifestyle industries. Even now policymakers are preoccupied with promoting new national industries even though it is hard to name one industry that they have successfully promoted since the 1970s. New growth industries such as K-Pop, cosmetics, fashion and beauty, which are lifestyle industries, have developed and prospered independently of government industrial policy. Before it becomes too late, therefore, the government should reallocate some of the resources they plan to spend on new high tech industries to the eco-system for lifestyle industries, especially, the education and retraining of lifestyle business workers and entrepreneurs.


강연 영상

The Rise of the Lifestyle City