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This paper critically examines the Seoul city government's attempts at the policy transfer of creative cities programmes, both as a policy borrower and as a policy lender, by using the emergent 'policy mobilities' approach. Seoul's way of actualising the idea of creative cities places more emphasis on local-serving administration, tourism and physical cultural infrastructure. The original creative city programmes have been transformed, ideologically and materially, by Seoul into a process of downsizing government organisations and workforce and limiting the use of public space. Seoul's attempt to be a policy lender is not a product of other foreign cities' policy transfer from Seoul, but the result of the city government's promotional practices. Its final outcome, thus bears relatively little relationship or similarity to the original policies, encountering unexpected administrative and operational problems, such as increasing debt and resistance from civil groups.

Lee Y.-S. Balanced development in globalizing regional development? Unpacking the new regional policy of South Korea, Regional Studies. This paper critically examines South Korea's adoption of 'new regionalism' as a basis for its regional policy initiatives. It is argued that this new regional policy poses dualism between endogenism and exogenism, and as such fails to reformulate and re-articulate theoretical and policy views on the globalization of regional development. Instead of dualism, a concept of 'multi-scalar governance' has been developed as an analytical lens through which regional development in the era of globalization can be analysed. Based on this viewpoint, the drawbacks of the new regional policy - the problems of triangular inter-scalar coordination - are specifically reviewed. For this analysis, archival re-examination and in-depth interviews with policy-makers have been employed. [image omitted] Lee Y.-S. Le developpement equilibre dans la mondialisation de l'amenagement du territoire? Deballer la nouvelle politique regionale de la Coree du Sud, Regional Studies. Cet article cherche a examiner d'un oeil critique l'adoption par la Coree du Sud de la 'nouvelle regionalisation' comme cadre des actions de sa nouvelle politique regionale. Dans cet article, on affirme que cette nouvelle politique regionale presente le dualisme entre des approches endogene et exogene et, par la suite, ne reussit ni a reformuler, ni a rearticuler des perspectives theoriques et de politique sur la mondialisation de l'amenagement du territoire. A la place du dualisme, on developpe la notion de 'gouvernance a echelles multiples' comme une lentille analytique par laquelle on pourrait analyser l'amenagement du territoire a l'epoque de la mondialisation. Dans cette optique, on fait la critique en particulier des inconvenients de la nouvelle politique regionale - a savoir, les problemes de la coordination triangulaire a echelles multiples. Dans cette analyse, on reexamine des archives et interviewe dans le detail les decideurs. Gouvernance a echelles multiples Politique regionale Amenagement du territoire Coordination a echelles mutiples Reseaux de production mondiaux Nouvelle regionalisation Lee Y.-S. Ausgeglichene Entwicklung bei der Globalisierung der Regionalentwicklung? Eine Untersuchung der neuen Regionalpolitik in Sudkorea, Regional Studies. In diesem Artikel wird die Ubernahme des 'neuen Regionalismus' in Sudkorea als Grundlage fur regionalpolitische Initiativen kritisch untersucht. Ich argumentiere in meinem Beitrag, dass diese neue Regionalpolitik einen Dualismus zwischen Endogenismus und Exogenismus verursacht und somit nicht in der Lage ist, die theoretischen und politischen Perspektiven der Globalisierung der Regionalentwicklung neu zu formulieren und zu artikulieren. Anstelle eines Dualismus habe ich ein Konzept der 'multiskalaren Regierungsfuhrung' als analytisches Objektiv entwickelt, durch das sich die Regionalentwicklung im Zeitalter der Globalisierung analysieren lasst. Ausgehend von dieser Perspektive werd...

In this article, we critically analyse UK retailer, Tesco's September 2015 decision to sell its highly profitable South Korean subsidiary Homeplus to private investors. For over a decade since market entry in 1999, Homeplus had grown steadily to achieve a market-leading position through a process of strategic localization in which Tesco's global business practices were selectively adapted to meet the specific needs of the South Korean market. Against this backdrop, we explain the exit decision through theorising the dynamic intersection of home and host market factors that developed contemporaneously from 2010 onwards. On the one hand, worsening market conditions and financial pressures in a post-crisis UK domestic market drove Tesco to refocus on its home operations and, ultimately, identify saleable assets to offset mounting debts. On the other hand, steadily growing resistance within the South Korean market from competitors, regulators, labour and consumers caused sales growth to stall and then start to decline. Our analysis contributes to the economic geography literature on retail divestment by conceptualising the relational process of divestment decision-making that encompasses the intersection of home and host market pressures as well as conditions across the wider portfolio of subsidiaries. The research is particularly distinctive in its profiling of this coevolution of drivers, and in distilling the different 'domains' of host market contestation. The analysis also has wider significance in the context of the broader literatures on economic globalization that have tended to focus heavily on processes of expansion and market entry and far less on the instances of failure and exit that are an integral and inevitable part of these wider dynamics.