4차 산업혁명과 도-농 공간구조 변화에 대한 탐색적 접근

The Fourth Industrial Revolution and the Change of Urban and Rural Settlement - Focusing on Spatial Justice -

This study intends to explain how the fourth industrial revolution on the urban and rural space, using descriptive statistics and urban economic models in order to propose a useful measure for new regional development strategies. The Korean regional development strategy that has centered massive resources on a particular region has led it grow and become a big city, inducing large migration of the rural population to the city. Experiencing hollow villages due to out-migration of the rural population, at the same time, the aging of the rural areas and the lack of basic infrastructure facilities have been threatening the existence of rural areas. Technological advances from the fourth industrial revolution can alternatively reverse this experience, revitalizing rural areas and resolving spatial and regional inequality between urban and rural areas. This is possible if the fourth industrial revolution contributes to alleviating the disparity of regional utility between urban and rural areas. If successful, it is highly expected that population migrating to a city as a result of the utility difference will experience reverse migration to rural areas. In addition, IoT and 3D-printing technologies will expand the flow of goods and service, which was mostly constrained by physical space, to the non-physical space; these technologies will lead contribute to increasing both the utility of urban and rural areas. To prepare the new era of digital transformation, local and central governments as well as other private firms and stakeholders need to collaborate for the future regional development strategies.