Poor citizens are being treated as disposable and have been deliberately excluded from equal opportunities of education, health, shelter and economic opportunities. Widening of inequality has become a reality of neo-liberal times, encompassing both the developed and developing countries. Scholars like Shin and Kim (2015) have highlighted the government’s negligence towards pro-poor development in these cities, which has led to substandard housing and cheap rental accommodations to absorb the continuous influx of migrants.

Its success story is marred with an increasing population density, the housing crisis and rising class differences across its demography. This economic development has been accompanied by high levels of urbanisation, with more than 80% of its population living in cities (UNDESA 2018).ĭespite its noticeable economic development, however, South Korean cities resemble other cities in the global South. Within the region, South Korea, in particular, has made noticeable progress in economic development and has come to be known as an “economic miracle” (Ha 2004).

Asia has, and will have, the largest share of the urban population in the world. The world is undergoing rapid urbanisation, as half the population is predicted to move into urban areas, by the mid of the present century, changing the locus of urban population to the global South (UNDESA 2018).

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