• Journal of the Korean association of regional geographers
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• v.19 no.1
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• pp.147-161
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• 2013

This paper aims to examine the background, process, and characteristics of the territorial reform of local governments in West Germany (the Federal Republic of Germany) in the 1960s and 70s. During this period the territorial structure and function of municipality (Gemeinde), county (Kreis) and county-free town (Kreisfreie Stadt) as local governments were fundamentally reformed. The territorial reform of local governments paid special attention to merge the small-sized municipalities and to create the joint authorities in order to build the system of central localities. There had been criticism on the uniform boundary delimitation, confusion of regional identity, erosion of local autonomy and emphasis on the regional planning. But the territorial reform of the period has contributed to improve the performance of public administration and to strengthen the service delivery and planning capacity.

• Journal of the Korean association of regional geographers
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• v.16 no.6
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• pp.673-688
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• 2010

The purpose of this study is to develop an optimization model for reconstructing local administrative districts using spatial analysis and modeling. For this, literature related to reorganization of local administrative systems was critically reviewed and criteria for redistricting were extracted. An optimization model for reconstructing administrative districts was formulated based on these criteria. The model considered three criteria; homogeneity within a reconstructed district, equity among reconstructed districts, and spatial arrangement. Homogeneity for relieving spatial mismatch between administrative and living(economic) boundaries is measured by spatial interaction within a district. Equity among districts is evaluated using population, area, and financial independence. Finally, spatial arrangement is measured by compactness and contiguity. The developed optimization model was implemented using Automated Zoning Procedure(AZP) in GIS environment and applied to a problem aggregating Si-Gun administrative units into broader districts. Application results demonstrate that the model can provide optimal districts according to alternative objective functions.

• Proceedings of the KGS Conference
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• 2004.05a
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• pp.76-76
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• 2004

우리나라나 프랑스와 같이 오랜 역사를 지닌 나라의 행정구역은 이미 지역 정체성을 가지고 있는 공간 단위를 기초로 구획되었거나, 일단 행정구역으로 구획된 후 점차 정체성을 획득하는 과정을 밟아 왔다. 또한 오늘날 행정구역, 특히 지방자치 단체의 공간 규모와 성격은 참여 민주주의에 근거한 지방 분권의 실시, 국토의 효율적인 개발을 위해서도 점점 그 중요성을 더하고 있다. (중략)

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.16 no.2
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• pp.399-409
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• 2016

Gyeongsangbuk-do moved its provincial office in October, 2015 and has been building a new town with a goal to construct a truly self-sufficient city with the population of 100,000 people before 2027. However, a new town tends to be dualized in terms of its administrative districts, so it is raising a lot of problems regarding from city construction up to operation. In order to solve those problems, this author has selected Si Gun Gu integration that was chosen as a major task to do in 2012 among the basic plans to revise the local administration system announced by the promotional committee to reorganize administrative districts as the range of this research and analyzed how it is going on in Andong-si and Yecheon-gun where a provincial office new town is being constructed. The main contents of this study regard the theoretical model to reform the local administration system, basic plans to revise the local administration system, and necessity and directions for reorganizing administrative districts in Andong-si and Yecheon-gun. Based on that, this author suggests integration of administrative districts as a way for a provincial office new town to establish its identity and grow as a sustainable, new growth focus city in Gyeongsangbuk-do.

• Journal of the Korean Regional Science Association
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• v.38 no.1
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• pp.33-44
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• 2022

Over the past decades there has been an increasing demand for decentralization in order to promote the balanced regional growth in South Korea. However, several previous studies have raised concerns regarding the disparity between municipalities as the deviation of power from central government could give wealthy municipalities a clear advantage. The purpose of this study is to better understand the relationship between decentralization and balanced regional growth by examining the Great Heisei consolidation in Japan trying to enact largescale municipal restructuring in association with the promotion of decentralization. In particular, much attention is to be paid to the fact that Japanese central clearly understand the municipalities with small population size could be in a disadvantageous position during the decentralization process so that it has a policy of encouraging mergers to make the municipal system more efficient. Lessons from the case study are summarized in this study in relation to the South Korea's efforts towards the decentralization.

• Journal of the Korean Geographical Society
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• v.45 no.1
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• pp.119-143
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• 2010

Local administrative districts in Japan have extensively reformed over the last 10 years and have decreased by 40 percent. This study examines the process of the municipal mergers in Japan from the perspective of the politics of space, in addition to a focus on the formation of Tobichi (enclaves). The background and progress of municipal mergers in Japan revealed that the reformation of administrative districts progressed under 'restruction' rather than 'decentralization' to manage a financial crisis of government. As a result, the municipal mergers of Japan have progressed in spatiotemporal inequality. The municipal mergers of the study areas are analyzed in multi-dimensional spatial politics composed of financial and demographic properties, locationality, territoriality, placeness, and the politics of decision making. Administrative districts have a spatial property; the reformation of them should be considered with the specialty and generality of the region.

• Journal of Local Government Studies
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• v.25 no.1
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• pp.91-116
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• 2013

The purpose of this paper is to find out the set of the factors influencing on the successful voluntary consolidation among local governments. This paper considers the voluntary consolidation as a kind of coordination mechanism and institutional collective action process between local governments, and identifies the configurations of the causal factors influencing the voluntary consolidations by applying the fuzzy-set analysis. It is found that the sets of the causal factors which include political and economic homogeneity factors in the region, and interlocal political, economic, and social homogeneity factors, and prior consolidation experience between regions have positive effects on the consolidations. Also, it turns out that interlocal homogeneity and conformity between regions should be considered significantly for institutionalization which supports the consolidation between local entities.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Navigation and Port Research Conference
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• 2009.06a
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• pp.249-252
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• 2009

우리나라는 1993년 이래로 관제를 시행해 오고 있으며, 현재 11개 지방청에 관제시설을 갖추고 200명이 넘는 관제사가 관제업무에 종사하고 있다. 하지만, 제도적 요소는 관제구역의 설정과 관제구역내 모든 선박이 관제를 시행하기 위한 기본 규정도 올바로 준비되지 않은채 관제를 시행해온 문제가 드러났다. 본 연구에서는 관제에 있어 "있어야 할 법", 즉 입법 차원에서 필요한 법에 대해 고찰하고자 한다.

• 공원문화
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• s.74
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• pp.74-82
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• 1998

국내공원내 토지이용규제 등으로 주민의 민원을 해결하기 위해 정부가 마련한 "국립공원구역 타당성 조사기준(안)"에 대한 공개토론회가 12월 1일 국립환경연구원 대강당에서 개최되었다. 환경부는 한국지방행정연구원에 연구용역을 의뢰한 "국립공원구역조정기준(안)을 공개하였다.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.17 no.12
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• pp.1-10
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• 2017

Open data has received a lot of attention from around the world. The Korean government is also making efforts to open government data. However, despite the quantitative increase in public data, the lack of data is still pointed out. This paper proposes a method to improve data sharing and utilization by semantically linking public data. First, we propose a knowledge model for expressing administrative districts and their semantic relationships in Korea. An administrative district is an administrative unit that divides the territory of a nation, which is a unit of politics, according to the purpose of the state administration. The knowledge model of the administrative district defines the structure of the administrative district system and the relationship between administrative units based on the Local Autonomy Act. Second, a knowledge graph of the administrative districts is introduced. As a reference information to link public open data at a semantic level, some characteristics of a knowledge graph of administrative districts and methods for linking heterogeneous public open data and improving data quality are addressed. Finally, some use cases are addressed for interlinking between the knowledge graph of the administrative districts and public open data. In particular, national administrative organisations are interlinked with the knowledge graph, and it demonstrates how the knowledge graph can be utilised for improving data identification and data quality.