OECD/IMHE project
Supporting the Contribution of Higher Education Institutions to Regional Development

Self-Evaluation Report:

Busan, Republic of Korea

Jang-soo Ryu, Sung-joon Paik, Dae-shik Lee, Hyun-joong Jun, Eui-soo Cho and Jong-han Kim

January 2006

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
This self-evaluation report has been created with the help and support of regional partners such as universities in the Busan region, the central government, the regional government, and businesses. There are a total of six authors to this report including a regional co-ordinator and their expertise cover a wide range of fields including economics, education, and sociology. This report would not have been possible without the active help from our regional partners. In preparing the questionnaire the authors referred to many materials, including past OECD reports, and at the same time reflected Busan’s regional characteristics. Questionnaires were distributed to twelve universities in the Busan region to research and analyze each university’s role in regional development. Representatives from all twelve universities participated in the questionnaire review meeting and gave outstanding opinions, and the researchers actively reflected those opinions in creating the final questionnaire. Everybody from the Busan region universities gave sincere answers to the question and provided much data. After creating the self-evaluation report, the authors collected opinions from the regional steering committee, and the regional steering committee authorized the report as Busan’s self-evaluation report. The Ministry of Education and Human Resources Development (MOE) and Busan Metropolitan City gave unreserved support in creating this report. Not only did the MOE judge this project as a means to accurately identify university’s roles for regional development so far, but had plans to promote similar researches in other regions, based on this report. Busan Metropolitan City recognized universities to