서울시 장조산업의 경제적 성과와 집적화에 대한 일고찰

• 영문명: An Analysis on the Economic Performance of Creative Industry and Clustering in Seoul
• 발행기관: 한국지역개발학회
• 저자명: 구문모(Goo, Moon-Mo)
• 간행물 정보: 『한국지역개발학회지』제17권 제4호, 197~224쪽, 전체 28쪽
• 주제분류: 사회과학 > 지역개발
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2005.12.30

영문 초록

This study deals with the economic performance of creative industry in terms of employers and firms. and further analyses the economic activities of the industry in Seoul, considering their preferring to cluster at metropolitan areas typically. The trends of agglomeration in every district of Seoul are investigated to verify the traditional facts that the activities of creative industry have the tendency of centering in some areas of a metropolitan region. The nine industries are selected following the scholarly definition of creative industry and the official data on the number of employed person and firms published by the NSO on a yearly basis during 1999~2003 are used on Korean standard industrial classification (KSIC). The location quotients for the districts of Seoul in those industries are used as indicators to show the relative degree of the industrial concentration and are compared in terms of periods between 1999 and 20m. This study shows that the creative industry of Seoul is leading in Korea and growing faster than overall employment. Apparently the position of Seoul has been strengthened in almost every selected creative industries and its activities tend to be oriented toward urban centers. This article has some limitations in that more segmented analysis of industry activities is not implemented due the inadequacy of existing data sources, which does not suggest fruitful ideas to explain the agglomeration in a city. This point needs to be a further quantitative and qualitative study