“…However, the path dependency of attempts to change political structures have also limited the direction and scope of adaptation, which is manifested by the persistence of neo-developmentalism despite democratization and devolution of political power (Choi, Lee and Kim, 2019). From this perspective, when taking into account all of the turning points in the economy, the wide range of political orientations of political leaders and the tenacity of political and economic institutions, transformations in the political economy of spatial planning in Korea do not support either the simplistic notions of a linear development path determined by economic growth, or, therefore, the position that societies can or should choose to economically grow first and then move on to consider a social and environmental agenda later (Yap, 2011).…”