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The purpose of this study is to empirically examine correlation between the centralization of capital region and the regional disparity. Thus, this study analyzed correlation between the centralization of capital region and the regional disparity in terms of the status, changes, and canonical correlation analysis of the capital region centralization and the regional disparity. And, for this study, DB about 9 dimensions(population, economy, industry, money, urban infra, healthy and welfare, education, local public finance, and decision making) and 32 variables was built. In addition, analysis DB was divided into 1995, 2000, 2005, and 2007. The main results of the study are as follows. First, Korea's centralization of capital region is very high. In particular, centralization of capital region is very high in terms of population, economy, industry, money, and decision making. Also, the dimension with high centralization of capital region shows higher centralization with time. Second, Korea shows regional disparity in terms of population, economy, industry, money, local public finance, and decision making. Also, the high dimension of regional disparity shows higher regional disparity. Third, according to change in the centralization of the capital region and the regional disparity, the dimensions with higher centralization of the capital region show higher regional disparity. In addition, local public finance and decision making newly show increase in the centralization of the capital region and the regional disparity. Fourth, the centralization of the capital region and the regional disparity has significant positive correlation. According to canonical correlation analysis, the higher centralization of the capital region is, the higher regional disparity probably becomes. However, correlation between the centralization of the capital region and the regional disparity is lower during 1995-2007.