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The community is one of the key concepts recently rising in the field of local regeneration in Korea. It is also related to a big paradigm shift the Korean local development has experienced over the past decade. In the new paradigm, local communities play a key role as a main body leading the efforts and as an energy source powering development. This paper aims to examine the changed circumstances that require the paradigm shift in local regeneration policies, and to suggest a normative model of local development strategies for local regeneration. For these purposes, I first review the notion of local regeneration as a special form of local development, and review two streams of local development, exogenous local development and endogenous local development, in theoretical context to establish an ideal type of community-led local development. Next, I diachronically examine changes in materialistic conditions and circumstances that led to a paradigm shift in local development, including slowed-down migration, resurging community movements, economic stagnation, worsening national finances, and aging population. Lastly, based on the aforementioned review and analysis of theoretical contexts and structural changes, I derive a normative model of local development to pursue in the coming years. The model is named SAGE strategies as the acronym for Sustainability, Assets, Governance, and Entrepreneurship-based development strategies.