A Study on the Development Process of Inchon as Industrial City and its On-going Trend of Transformation

초록

The city of Inchon entered in the stage of modern history through opening of the port in 1883. At first Inchon played her role as gateway to Korea as a center of international politics and trade. It was during the period of Japanese occupation of Korea that Inchon began to grow up as an indstrial town. However, Inchon had to wait until to the end of Korean War to start the transformation into veritable industrial city. Her development in industry, backed up by the endeavor of central government for industrialization, was remarkable one during the decades of sixties and seventies. At present the change of both international and demestic circumstances enhances higher the situation of Inchon and urges the city to go throough another chance of transformation. In this study we made description on the development process of Inchon so as to be able to look into the context of the evolution and understand the mechnism of development through a case of industrial city in a country on the way of development.