ISSN : 1225-6706
On December, 2011, the ruling party and opposition parties agreed to amendAct on Urban Housing Renewal to allow local residents to decide the carrying-onof renewal projects with their own evaluation. Upon this amended Act, the metropolitangovernment of Seoul released New Town Exit Policy called ‘the 1·30 Measure’. This policy focused primarily on providing resident with an exit to get out fromthe entrapped situation of housing redevelopment and new town developmentprojects. At the same time, the policy aims at getting beyond solving deadlockedproblems to shift towards a new concept of residential regeneration. The new wayof urban management sets a new principle of housing renewal such as the man-centeredrecovery of community, human rights to housing, housing welfare promotionand the like. Hence, with a view to instituting an alternative paradigm of man-centeredurban renewal, the 1·30 probationary measures involve an intention to bringabout the paradigm shift of housing renewal practices. At the time of the paradigmshift of housing renewal, this paper attempts to review the hither-to implementedhousing policy in Seoul and evaluate the possibility and limit of man/community-centeredhousing policy, with a goal to design a new conception of housing renewaland its policy agenda. The paper is organized as follow: first evaluating the currentstate of housing policy in Seoul, then examining the necessity and feasibility of policytransition from housing development to residential regeneration, finally drawing theprinciple and direction of new residental regeneration and its policy agendas.
The purpose of this study is to analyze the changing process of rental housingsupply policy in South Korea by the historical-comparative analysis of historicalinstitutionalism. The long term from 1945 to 2012 was divided into four periodsby the criteria of external shocks such as oil crisis, IMF currency crisis, and globalfinancial crisis which might affect the policy. The first period(1945~1979) was asprouting stage in which the policy was implemented fragmentarily and symbolically. The second period(1980~1997) was a founding stage in which the policy was attemptedmore variously than the first period but inconsistently in response to politicaland social economy conditions. The third period(1998~2007) was a systemizingstage in which various types of rental housing supply policy were executed moreactively than the second period but extemporarily in response to market condition. The fourth period(2008~2012) was a integrating stage in which the policy of thethird period was merged into a nestlike housing supply policy, but the supply wasvery insufficient to meet the goal. The changing type of the policy can be classifiedas a path dependency which means reproduction by adaptation. The reason is thathome-ownership oriented policy for economic development has been preferred andpaternalistic policy for lower-income class has been executed continuously. Basedon above analysis, this study proposed the improvement direction of rental housingsupply policy briefly.
Urban regeneration projects with residents’ participation have been highlightedby local authorities since the 2000s, as participatory urban regeneration is consideredas a normative strategy for the improvement of urban environment. Participatoryurban regeneration is not a panacea to improve everyday life space for residents. It is because participatory urban regeneration might be either just rhetoric or toolsto exclude resents in the real world. This paper explains residents’ participationand exclusion generated by government-resident relationship and carefully concludesthat the formation of urban space through urban regeneration may depend on thecondition whether residents and local authorities collaborate or conflict each other. Exploring Youngju city’s urban regeneration project, this paper finds out the combinationboth inclusion and exclusion of residents in the project. As a consequence,this paper suggests tailored invitation to residents’ participation and strategies tominimize residents’ exclusion.