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They have tried building hubs further out of Seoul, but it just doesn't work. Why would people leave and tie a billion liabilities to their workplace which is n
by seoulmetro 4y ago
They have tried building hubs further out of Seoul, but it just doesn't work. Why would people leave and tie a billion liabilities to their workplace which is not even easy to maintain in Seoul itself?
They want workers and they want Seoul. Workers want Seoul and they don't want to rely on their employers. This is always going to continue the fueling of Seoul border growth.
- bobthepanda 4y agoBut workers want Seoul because already all the eggs are in the Seoul basket. Universities? Seoul. Jobs? Seoul. Services? Seoul. The country has been overconcentrated in Seoul since at least the beginning of the dictatorship. Breaking the cycle will not happen overnight, and you don’t even need to build new cities, just invest in the other ones. (Sejong was probably a bad idea.)
- seoulmetro 4y agoIt's the same in every country. It's just that Korea started so late that there were no other cities to build from. Busan isn't a great city to grow.