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This study aims to conduct a comparative study on the characteristics of population and employment suburbanization between Seoul and Beijing Metropolitan Regions, which are the Capital Regions of Korea and China, respectively. To do so, this study uses three methods: analysis on changes in population and employment densities by the distance from the CBD, population and employment density gradients, and a multiple regression model for measuring the effects of suburbanization on jobs-housing mismatch. Major findings from the analyses can be highlighted as follows: 1) Seoul has flatter density gradients than Beijing, indicating that Seoul's scale of suburbanization for both population and employment is larger than Beijing; 2) Unlike Seoul, suburban residents in Beijing have negative relationship with commuting distance, implying that Beijing's suburbs have shorter commuting distance than Seoul's suburbs. It hardly finds that Beijing's population suburbanization resulted in worsening jobs-housing balance, unlike Seoul and other Western countries.