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It is key element for the foreign direct investment(FDI) to uplift the productivity and efficiency through the international competitiveness and cooperation in an ear of boundlessness competition business. Because FDI is conducive to regional development of a local area by providing such as the increase of employment opportunity, transferring of advanced technology and advanced management skills and the capital resources of revenues. Especially, local authorities consider the FDI as a device of regional development and the luring of foreign direct investment in local government have being intense. It is very important to reveal the factors affecting the FDI.This study examines the factors of FDI determinant by comparing the three areas to set up the effective policy for the local business promotion which to improve the investment environment. The research variables of the determinants are including various factors; the land costs, the locational advantage, FDI incentives, environment of competition and level of technique and union relationships, quality of bureaucracy, etc., as the key determinants of foreign direct investment. Results of this research will show determinants of FDI according region to region by comparing each municipality of BusanUlsan and Gyengnam. The generalization of this results are extremely limited in southeast of Korea, but it also is meaningful to compare the findings of this research with ones of the other capital cities around the Seoul in the further research.