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This paper investigates how unequally the research grant is distributed in Korea. We used the actual data of NRF Korea for 2009-2011. We developed some new indices for measuring the imbalance of the government research grants and found the followings. First, smaller number of research grants is provided to the non capital area researchers, compared to the number of researchers. Second, the amount of research fund toward to the local researchers is even smaller. Third, to our surprise, the research performance of the local researchers seems better than those of capital area researchers, in terms of the number of publications per research grant. Last, we added an ordered logit regression to investigate the factors affecting the research grants.