Signal The capital region now holds over half of output and population and a rising share of university places

Summary

The strategy reports that the investment growth gap between the capital region and other regions reversed from minus 0.6 percentage points in 2000 to 2014 to plus 2.1 points in 2015 to 2024. The capital region's share of regional GDP has exceeded 50 percent since 2015 and its share of population since 2019. In 2023, 95.5 percent of the thirty largest companies had their headquarters in the capital region. Its share of total university admission places rose from 36.0 percent in 2010 to 40.0 percent in 2025. Real estate credit grew from 799 trillion won in 2012 to 1,933 trillion won in 2024, equal to 49.7 percent of the total.