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...

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Published in:	TPR: Town Planning Review Vol. 88; no. 1; pp. 59 - 79
Main Authors:	Chung-Tong Wu, Hae-Un Rii
Format:	Article
Published:	Liverpool University Press / Journals 2017
Subjects:	South Korea Casinos Urban planning Urban growth Urban economics Coal mining
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