I am pleased to share this research report, The Partnership of New Town Development in Korea: A Multi-scalar Growth Politics Perspective with readers. The contribution of this study is significant because there is an increasing attention to the issue of scales. The discourses of globalisation and localisation are part of our life in these days, and they influence such many aspects of the society. The current economic crisis is a good example how different societies and countries are linked to each other. The local governments’ involvement increases dramatically overtime.
Previous academic debates on rescaling are helpful for understanding what is going on in the contemporary society, but they remain so abstract that it is hard to grasp the meaning of rescaling. By providing detailed stories on how various actors - the national government, the local government, the businesses, and the civil society - interacted with each other, this research helps understanding how rescaling works with grounded evidences. It is interesting to see how the partnership can be dynamic in their findings.
While this research does not make explicit arguments on planning and public policy, this study is helpful for policy-makers’ and planners’ approach to partnership. Nowadays, many planning projects are postponed quite long because of interest conflicts among different actors. That messiness is an embarrassment to many people who are involved in planning and public policy. This research demonstrates how partnership works in details in the Korean context and helps those planners and policy-makers come up with realistic and desirable strategies.
I am positive that this study will be very instructive and informative to those who are interested in the dynamics among participants and the rescaling process. I appreciate Dr. HaeRan Shin and Dr. Jung Won Sonn at University College London, and Dr. Se Hoon Park at this research institutue (KRIHS) for their useful research and coordination. I am also grateful to the interviewees in Songdo and Eunpyeong who helped the authors with their fieldwork.

FOREWORD ⅰ
SUMMARY ⅲ

I. INTRODUCTION
1. The Growth Politics and the Emergence of New Governance 1
1) The Dynamics among Various Stakeholders 1
2) Research Questions 5
3) Contributions 7
2. Organisation of the Research 8

Ⅱ. THEORETICAL BACKGROUND
1. The Multi-scalar Growth Politics 9
1) Deterministic views on state rescaling 9
2) Constructionist view on scale 10
3) Theoretical Framework : Growth politics of multi-scalar governance 13
2. Discursive Articulation of Accumulation Strategy 15
3. Rescaling of the Developmental State 19

Ⅲ. RESEARCH DESIGN
1. Selection of case studies 21

Ⅳ. THE BACKGROUND OF THE TWO CASES
1. Songdo Development 25
2. Background of Eunpyeong New-Town Development 29

V. THE MULTI-SCALAR GROWTH POLITICS: THE DYNAMICS OF PARTNERSHIP AND GROWTH COMPETITION IN THE SONGDO NEW CITY DEVELOPMENT
1. The Formation of New Governance 35
2. The Growth Competition and Growth Coalition in Multi-Scales 42
3. The National Government's Growth Ideology 51

Ⅵ. LOCALISATION AND GLOBALISATION MEDIATED IN TRANSLATION : THE SONGDO NEW CITY DEVELOPMENT
1. Local Formation of Competitiveness Discourse 53
2. Financial Crisis and Regional Competitiveness Discourse 55
3. The FEZ Policy as a Compromise of Discourse Conflict 56
4. The Discourse Politics of Scale : Competitiveness of What 59
5. The Scale of the Neo-Liberal and the Neo-Communitarian Policies 65

Ⅶ. RESCALING THE DEVELOPMENTAL STATE LEGACY INTO LOCAL : THE PROCESS OF EUNPYEONG NEW TOWN DEVELOPMENT
1. The City Government as the Developer - Localised National
Government in New Town Development 69
2. The Entrepreneurialism of the City Government's Agency 73
3. Homeowners as Developer, Competing with the City Government 75

Ⅷ. CONCLUSION AND IMPLICATIONS
1. The Main Findings 81
2. Growth Pressures and the Public Sector 83
3. Coping with Conflicts in Governance 86

REFERENCE 89
KOREAN SUMMARY 95