![]() ![]() Seoul’s mayor Park Won-soon discussing the Sharing City. ![]() It has a highly-developed tech infrastructure, widespread public wifi, and 60 percent of South Koreans own a smartphone. It’s one of the most populous cities in the world and one of the most connected. With more than 10 million people living within 234 square miles, Seoul is in a good position to demonstrate the benefits of tech-enabled sharing. “The Sharing City not only creates new jobs, increases income and efficiently uses resources,” he says, “but it will reproduce communities that disappeared, due to rapid urbanization and industrialization, in a modern mode using information technologies and social networking services.” According to Kim Tae Kyoon, director of Seoul’s Social Innovation Division, the recovery of a sense of community is an important aspect of the project. The goal of the Sharing City is to create jobs and increase incomes, address environmental issues, reduce unnecessary consumption and waste, and recover trust-based relationships between people. It’s also a way to maximize the city’s resources and budget. A new, city-funded project called “Sharing City, Seoul” aims to bring the sharing economy to all Seoul citizens by expanding sharing infrastructure, promoting existing sharing enterprises, incubating sharing economy startups, utilizing idle public resources, and providing more access to data and digital works.Ĭreated in September of 2012 as part of the Seoul Innovation Bureau’s plan to solve social, economic and environmental problems in innovative ways, the Sharing City is a move to better the lives of Seoul citizens through sharing. One of the great megacities of the world, Seoul, South Korea, is positioning itself to be a model city for sharing. Where are you? Would it surprise you if I said Seoul? Once home, you enjoy a community meal at your neighbour’s apartment and spend the evening packing for a trip using borrowed luggage that you found via your smartphone. On your lunch hour you participate in a public transportation flash mob and after work you swing by a tool sharing center to finish a project. You then ride in a shared car to your job where you give tours of the city to out-of-towners. Imagine this scenario: You wake up in a bustling city and have breakfast with the guest you rented your spare room to.
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