City" and Seoul.More generally, however, the strategy has proved less effective, owing to to re reluctance of companies and personnel to relinquish the amenities of the large city, the insufficient level of incentives, changing priorities and govern- will economic policy, and, in particular, policy policyconflict between the goals of urban decentralisation and national economic development. In addition, the limited employment created by decentralisation of capital-intensive industries means that although less lagging regions may benefit from dispersal strategies, the poor within the region may not benefit ind sufficiently to dissuade them from migration to the Th large city. Critics have also suggested that secondary cities merely serve as stepping-stones for migrants no to the primary and attention of city, that greater should be paid the national settlement pattern as the to a of central- est whole. In accordance with the precepts place theory 6), it is argued that the ho (see Chapter existence system and proaprimate city settlement