This report was prepared by the OECD Centre for Entrepreneurship, SMEs, Regions and Cities led by Lamia Kamal-Chaoui, Director, with the financial support of the Korean Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport (MOLIT).
Special thanks are extended to Gyu-Hyeon Kim (Director General), Hyoung-suk Kim (Director General), Seongkyun Cho (Director), Seung-Hee Yi (Deputy Director), Byung-Chul Hwang (Assistant Director), Hyun-young Lee (Assistant Director), and Seong-yoon Moon (Interpreter) from MOLIT for their continuous and valuable support throughout the project.
The OECD Secretariat is grateful to the numerous representatives from the national and local authorities and institutions who shared their insights with the OECD team during the study mission to Korea: Hye-ryong Yu (Senior Deputy Director), Dong Hyuk Kim (Deputy Director) and Bong-gil Kim (Assistant Director) from MOLIT; Hyeong-Chan Gim (Director General), Ki-jeong Kim (Assistant Director), Hee-yun Choi (Assistant Director) and Young-Tae Byeon (Assistant Director) from Busan Metropolitan City; Sang Jo Kim (Research Fellow), Seong Soo Kim (Research Fellow), Dongkun Kim (Associate Research Fellow), Kyusang Kwon (Associate Research Fellow) and Jung-Eun Park (Associate Research Fellow) from the Korea Research Institute for Human Settlements (KRIHS); Min-Soo Kim (President), Sangkug Lee (Director), Youngwoo Hwang (Senior Researcher), Ji Young Yoon (Research Fellow) and Seoung Uk Han (Research Fellow) from Busan Development Institute (BDI); Zoosun Yoon (Research Fellow) from the Architecture & Urban Research Institute (AURI); Gong Soo Lim (Director), Ki Baek Song (Research Fellow), Soung Eun Park (Research Fellow), Ki Tae Kim (Team Head), Joung-Oh Park (Team Head), Seungryul Ma (Team Head) and Jung Hoon Park (Manager) from Korea Housing and Urban Guarantee Corporation (HUG); Young-Il Song (Senior Researcher), Ok-Yeon Kim (Research Fellow) and Dae Sik Choi (Research Fellow) from Korea Land and Housing Corporation (LH); Seok Hwan Lee (Professor) from Kyungsung University; Kwang-Suek Oh (Professor) from the Korea Maritime and Ocean University; Keong-ho Jeong (Director General) and Tae-Seok Oh (Team Head) from Urban Regeneration Center Busan (URCB); Soonyeon Hong (Creative Director) from Samjin Amook Co., Ltd, and local residents of the Gamcheon Culture Village in Busan.
This report was co-ordinated by Oscar Huerta Melchor. It was drafted by Baesung Kim, Debra Mountford and Oscar Huerta Melchor under the supervision of Aziza Akhmouch, Acting Head of the OECD Cities, Urban Policies and Sustainable Development Division and Soo-Jin Kim, Senior Policy Analyst of the OECD Cities, Urban Policies and Sustainable Development Division. This study draws on the valuable contributions from peer reviewer Dr Jaromír Hainc of the Prague Institute of Planning and Development (Czech Republic) and Dr Jin Hui Lee, associate research fellow at the Korea Research Institute for Human Settlements (KRIHS).
Special thanks are also extended to Kay Olbison for editing the report and to Pilar Philip for preparing the report for publication.