City" and Seoul.More generally, however, the strategy has proved less effective, owing to to re reluctance of companies and personnel to relingrow the uish the amenities of the large city, the insufficient Wor level of incentives, changing priorities and govern- will ment economic policy, and, in particular, policy poli conflict between the goals of urban decentralisation opp and national economic development. In addition, atte the limited employment created by decentralisation ince of capital-intensive industries means that although less lagging regions may benefit from dispersal stratflow egies, 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 tria 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 pr o a primate city settlement