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There has been a rapid increase in the number of knowledge industry centers (also called apartment-type factories) in Korea over the last 20 years. One of the main purposes of provisions of centers is that they could benefit from the advantages of agglomeration economies by locating near each other. However, some of the recent literature cast doubt on such advantageous effects of knowledge industry center. The main purpose of this study is to investigate whether there have been close industrial linkages among manufacturers, using the case study of three different major metropolitan cities outside Non-Seoul metropolitan area. The empirical findings of this study show that there have been very weak industrial networks among manufacturers situated in the same knowledge industry center. However, it is found that most manufactures maintain close relationships with other businesses in the same metropolitan areas, and these relationships are more strengthened when the related area has specialized industries near the knowledge industry centers.