... these circumstances, regional universities in Korea face severe enrollment declines, raising serious concerns about their survival. To address the metropolitan–non-metropolitan imbalance, the government introduced the 2014 Act on Local Universities and Regional Human Resources and the 2016 Five-Year Basic Plan...

... examines how local universities address their seemingly divergent missions of “internationalization” and “regional revitalization.” Design/methodology/approach This study employed qualitative research methods. Through document analysis, this study covered government policies related...