| 英文摘要 |
Seoul, the capital of the Republic of Korea, is located in the Han River side of the central Korean Peninsula. Past military rules and the planned economy drove this city, which is not far from the northern border, to abnormally and unilaterally develop into a mega city, which occupies 50 percent of the population and 90 percent of national economic output. Due to the scale of the expansion of urbanization, the originally artificial defined administrative divisions of Seoul Special City can’t quickly respond to natural human settlement expansion, and thus the metropolitan area aggregate developing across different geographical jurisdictions subsequently appeared. It is gradually impossible to make people’s living area consistent with local government jurisdiction. This may lead to some problems such as a lack of holistic planning, a gap between administrative service and need, as well as the limitations of civilian participation and so on. What is concerned in this paper is how Seoul Special City and neighboring boroughs together face and deal with these urban problems. Seoul experience can be seen as the best case of metropolitan governance studies today.
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