In 1973, the Korean government initiated a plan to establish a major high-technology research complex, called Daeduck Science Park (DSP). The Ministry of Science and Technology (MST) designated 27 square kilometers of land in Taejon, a city of 1.3 million people (1999) for the creation of the...

The technopolis is increasingly seen as means of promoting technology-led economic development. Using Taedok Science Town (TST), a technopolis near Seoul, South Korea, as an example, the role that a technopolis can play in the promotion of city development through technology advancement is...