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Mokpo city government(木浦府) was confronted with the urban problems caused by the urban growth, similarly with other cities in Colonial Korea under Japanese rule. While Mokpo city government submitted the Mokpo city street improvement(市區改 正) and the sanitary sewer infrastructure development, the Japanese Government General also decided the Mokpo urban plan to solve the urban problem. Despite of the historical importance of these plans, the plans made by Mokpo city government and the Mokpo urban plan by Japanese Government General have received limited scholarly attention. Therefore, the object of this study is to investigate the plans for Mokpo in Colonial Korea with the historical planning perspective. This study presents the decision making process of these plans for Mokpo and investigates the contents and the characteristics of them. According to the planning agents, contexts and characteristics of the plans was completely different. Mokpo city government designed the city street improvement for the outskirts of the town in 1928 and made the sewer plan for the whole city. Because of the lack of the finance, the city street improvement was not implemented. And the sewer plan was only executed to the area of the town. Meanwhile, the Japanese Government General decided the Mokpo urban plan that was the first legal urban plan in 1937. It was different from the Mokpo’s plan including the construction of Mokpo port, the diversion of the railroad, etc. in the national land plan. The planning area was set up the range that exceeded the administrative district. Interestingly it tended to parade the orderly appearance and the richness to the outside. As the study was restricted to the urban plans for Mokpo city at the stages of decision making process in the Japanese colonial era, it has limitations to explain influence after implementing them. Nonetheless this study has a meaningful importance that demonstrates the substance of the urban planning during the Japanese Colonial Rule for Mokpo city.