Journal of the Korean Geographical Society ISSN:1225-6633(Print) 대한지리학회지

Recently, as smart cities have spread worldwide, the Korean authentication system that evaluates the stage diagnosis of smart cities has attracting its attention. The purpose of this study is to present an advanced smart city authentication system to improve the quality of domestic smart cities and to continuously disseminate the results. The smart city concept, urban authentication case, current status of international standards for smart city, comparative analysis between international standards and domestic pilot authentication, and the local government's requirements were reviewed through the in-depth interview method to suggest a plan for upgrading the Korean smart city authentication system. As a result of the study, the strengthening the sustainability of the authentication system, the subdividing and typifying the authentication system, and the supporting the achievement of the authentication standard were derived as the basic directions for upgrading the Korean authentication system and the detailed strategies were presented for each direction. Those results may complement the limits of failing to objectively evaluate the performance of Korean smart cities, and contribute to the spread of high quality smart cities based on authentication system in the future.