Journal of the Korean Cartographic Association ISSN:1598-6160(Print) 한국지도학회지

The Fourth Industrial Revolution is changing the industrial policy of the world. It makes the shift from a traditional manufacturing-oriented hardware economy to a soft power-oriented industry. Korea is also pushing for policies to foster new industries to cope with these changes. This study attempted to confirm the spatial distribution of industrial complexes through Korea’s industrial policy by period. As a result, the spatial location of industrial complexes in Korea was distributed according to policies by era. As a light industrial policy to foster the export industry, the development of inland industrial complexes was mainly focused in the 1960s, and coastal industrial complexes were created to focus on fostering the chemical hardware industry in 1970s. In order to solve the imbalance problem between regions and the trend toward the rural to urban migration by creating a large-scale industrial complex by the growth pole development method, a policy to develop local industrial complexes and expand agricultural and industrial complexes was promoted. Since the 1990s, it has been developed in line with the industrial policies of the era, such as the development of specialized industrial complexes and advanced science complexes, in order to promote the development of industrial complexes to foster high-tech industries. With the recent surge in the number of aging industrial complexes, it has been transformed into a facility in harmony with the inner city through industrial complex regeneration and industrial complex regeneration projects, and is preparing to promote technology advantages such as a campus innovation park for the future technology development. Therefore, this study should be continued to grasp the macroscopic flow through monitoring for the future industrial policy and spatial distribution.