Daedok, South Korea, Asia
 
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Daedok New town is a Research and Academic town and is conceived in 1977. It was modelled after Tsukuba Academic Town in Japan. Daedok is located in a suburban setting near the city of Daejon in central Korea. It was planned with the goal of creating high tech science and research park, housing a number of of government and private research institutions in the field of engineering. By 1984 Deadok contained eight government and three private research laboratories and three university levelacademic institutions.

source: (David R. Phillips and Anthony G.O. Yeh, New Towns in East & South East Asia Planning and Development, New York 1987, 121)

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