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Seoul City Branding

In: City Branding

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  • You Kyung Kim
  • Peter Eung-Pyo Kim

Abstract

Korea’s national soft power competitiveness in areas such as culture, tourism, and citizens lags behind its hard power, particularly in terms of the country’s impressive economic performance. These soft power sectors including culture, tourism and citizens require cities to play a substantial role. Therefore, Korean cities need to focus their efforts on nurturing soft power. Seoul, the heartland of Korea, has served an important role as a key strategic brand name that represents the country. Seoul has played a pivotal role in enhancing the value and assets of Korea’s national brand, while being an example for local cities in their efforts to increase their self-sustainability. The city has conducted branding campaigns at various locations in cooperation with the government, local communities and other cities. In this section, we will explore the strategic process and best practices for managing city brands, which Seoul as the capital of Korea has implemented under strong leadership.

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  • You Kyung Kim & Peter Eung-Pyo Kim, 2011. "Seoul City Branding," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Keith Dinnie (ed.), City Branding, chapter 0, pages 190-198, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-0-230-29479-0_26
    DOI: 10.1057/9780230294790_26
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    1. Yu-Min Joo & Bokyong Seo, 2018. "Transformative city branding for policy change: The case of Seoul’s participatory branding," Environment and Planning C, , vol. 36(2), pages 239-257, March.
    2. Sung-Won Yoon & Sae Won Chung, 2018. "Promoting a World Heritage Site through Social Media: Suwon City’s Facebook Promotion Strategy on Hwaseong Fortress (in South Korea)," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 10(7), pages 1-21, June.

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