The regional industrial policies enforced by central and local governments aim to form industrial clusters and energize regional economies by having enterprises flow into regional areas. Both central and local governments need to figure out why and how enterprises relocate to establish regional industrial policies effectively. Although the movement patterns of the companies formerly based in the capital area have been identified and understood owing to the local move support policies for them, the overall movement patterns including relocation within the capital area, movement between non-capital regions, and characteristics of moving companies have not been analyzed. Providing interregional movement patterns of enterprises at a national level can enhance the efficiency and reality of industrial location policies. It is possible to refine targets and means of industrial location policies by analyzing the local properties of clusters formed by interregional movements and venturing and the characteristics of relocating and start-up companies.The analysis of both corporate movement factors and job creation effects can provide the basis for developing customized regional location policies by suggesting incentives for enterprises and effects on local employment. The analysis of corporate mobility patterns for the last ten years by industry, corporate size, and business year can be used as the base information for planning future industrial location policies that range from industrial complexes and clusters to free economic zones.The raw data of national business survey annually released by KOSTAT are used as the primary data for analyzing the inter-regional movement of enterprises. The raw data contain extensive information about 3,673,876 businesses all over the country including address, the number of employees (permanent, temporary), industry classification code, year of establishment, organizational form (incorporated, private, unincorporated), and business classification (single business entity, headquarter, factory) in 2013. It is possible to build the time series panel data to analyze various changes in address, the number of employees, and so on by linking the national business survey data from 2003 to 2013 on a year-onyear basis by business unit.The spatial extent of the analysis targets all the Korean administrative districts of 17 cities and provinces nation-wide and 227 municipalities in December 2013. In South Korea, there is one special city, one special self-governing city, six metropolitan cities, eight provinces, one special self-governing province, and 227 municipalities including 75 cities, 83 counties, and 69 districts. The temporal extent ranges from 2004 to 2013 for ten years. The 2013 national business survey data released by KOSTAT in March 2015 are linked with annual data from 2012 to 2003 for analysis of corporate movement in the period of 2004 to 2014 for ten years.The analysis method is based on the judgment of considering changing business addresses from the ones listed in the raw data of national business survey to other municipalities as a spatial movement. The administrative district codes are unified by city, county, and district unit on a yearly basis. If there is any district code change in a specific year, it is analyzed that an enterprise has moved into another municipality and changed its address
