The Making of a Smart City in Korea

The Quest for E-Seoul

Edited by Hojeong Lee, Jaehyeon Jeong and JoongHwan Oh

Cutting across diverse disciplines, such as economics, sociology, public administration, public policy, urban design and planning, urban engineering, civil and environmental engineering, and tourism research, The Making of a Smart City in Korea provides empirical evidence on 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 shifting a traditional city into a digital one has brought about noticeable changes in the governance, econom-ics, arts, and cultures of Seoul.

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

Hojeong Lee is assistant professor in the Department of Film and Theatre at San Jose State University.

Jaehyeon Jeong is assistant professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Utah Asia Campus.

Joong-Hwan Oh is professor of sociology at Hunter College of The City University of New York.

How Seoul has interpreted and developed the notion of the smart city.

Lexington Books

May 2023

370 pages

81 illustrations

Part of the Korean Communities across the World series

Hardback

978 1 6669 3185 3 eBook

978 1 6669 3186 0

Social Science • Ethnic Studies / Asian Studies