Gambling for more: casinos as a development strategy for a shrinking Korean region.
A South Korean former coal mining region, Gangwon Province, faced with a severe economic downturn and rapid out-migration, chose to develop a casino to revive its economy and to stabilise its shrinking population. More than a decade on, in spite of some positives from this expansionist strategy, pop...
| Publicado en: | TPR: Town Planning Review Vol. 88; no. 1; pp. 59 - 79 |
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