This book is organized in three parts: (I) Seoul Metropolitan Government and the Development of a Smart City, (II) Placemaking for E-Seoul: Network Governance, Art, and Tourism, and (III) E-Commerce, Urban Planning, and Urban Sustainability. It presents how Seoul has interpreted and developed the notion of the smart city.

The Making of a Smart City in Korea: The Quest for E-Seoul displays how the notion of the smart city has been interpreted and applied in Seoul—the capital and largest metropolis of South Korea. The contributors show how a shift into a digital city has brought about noticeable changes in the governance, economics, and cultures of Seoul.

This edited volume on the Seoul Metropolitan Government’s quest for e-Seoul provides great resources for many cities worldwide seeking to benchmark this particular type of smart city, as well as for all those academics in the fields to learn it, given that Seoul has systematically pushed different stages and strategies of the smart urbanization.

Contents

Introduction, Hojeong Lee, Jaehyeon Jeong, and Joong-Hwan Oh

Part I: Seoul Metropolitan Government and the Development of a Smart City

Chapter 1. The Local Business Analysis Service for Service-Oriented Government: Seoul Metropolitan Government Case, June-Suh Cho and KwangJong Ahn

Chapter 2. Can Social Media Increase Government Responsiveness? A Case Study of Seoul, Korea, Seok-Jin Eom, Hanchan Hwang, and Jun Houng Kim

Chapter 3. Seoul, City of Sharing and Collaboration: The Rise of an Urban Ecosystem of Social Innovation, Monica Bernardi

Part II: Placemaking for E-Seoul: Network Governance, Art, and Tourism

Chapter 4. Toward Sustainable Governance: Strategic Analysis of the Smart City Seoul Portal in Korea, Yejin Yoo

Chapter 5. Developmentalist Smart Cities? The Cases of Singapore and Seoul, Yu-Min Joo

Chapter 6. Arts and Cultural/Creative Activities as Creative Placemaking Strategy in a Newly Built Urban District: The Case of Seoul Digital Media City (DMC), Junmin Song

Chapter 7. The Intra-and Inter-regional Economic Effects of Smart Tourism City Seoul: Analysis Using an Input-Output Model, Hyunae Lee and Sunyoung Hlee

Part III: Case Studies: E-commerce, Urban Planning, and Urban Sustainability

Chapter 8. Examining the Impact of E-commerce Growth on the Spatial Distribution of Fashion and Beauty Stores in Seoul, Sohyun Park and Keumsook Lee

Chapter 9. Smart, Sustainable, and Citizen Centered: A Network Analysis of Urban R&D Trends in Seoul, South Korea, Bo Wang, Sang Do Park, Jong-Youl Lee, and Jesse W. Campbell

Chapter 10. Urban Sustainability versus Green-Washing—Fallacy and Reality of Urban Regeneration in Downtown Seoul, Thorsten Schuetze and Lorenzo Chelleri

Chapter 11. A Machine Learning Approach to the Residential Relocation Distance of Households in the Seoul Metropolitan Region, Changhyo Yi and Kijung Kim

Chapter 12. What Factors Affect Commuters’ Utility of Choosing Mobility as a Service? An Empirical Evidence from Seoul, Sujae Kim, Sangho Choo, Sungtaek Choi, and Hyangsook Lee

About the Contributors