국토지리학회지 ISSN:1225-3766(Print) THE GEOGRAPHICAL JOURNAL OF KOREA

Sejong City was built for the purpose of balanced national development and solution of overcrowding in the metropolitan area, and was launched in 2012 as the 17^th metropolitan government. However, the problem of regional imbalance between the new city and old city has been continuously raised. In this study, citizens’perception of regional imbalances were investigated to promote balanced development between new and old cities. The main results derived from this study are summarized as follows. First, the satisfaction of new city residents was high in all items of residence satisfaction, and the difference in satisfaction was the largest in the area of residential environment. Second, the proportion that the old city area was perceived as underdeveloped was 69.2%. Third, 86.4% of positive responses to the development potential of Sejong City were surveyed. Fourth, 57.8% of respondents answered negatively about the gap between old and new cities. Since the establishment of Sejong City, it is judged that there is still a lack of common perception among residents of the new and old cities as the same area. Imbalance mitigation is a common task of the basic local governments that have both new and old city spaces, and if a citizen’s opinion survey is conducted in promoting the regional imbalance mitigation project, more relevant results can be derived.