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The main target of urban regeneration program is to revitalize declined old downtown in a city. However, there have been analytical problems, in particular,implementation programs in order to attain the ultimate goals as experienced in advanced countries, Japan, Europe, U.S.A. etc. In order to tackle this problems, it is essential that local governance and partnerships for cooperation between public-private sectors and citizens as wells as stake-holders should be considered creating social capitals based on many ideas and techniques. Here, the local governance components are merchant committee,inhabitants committee, NGO, specialists, and civil servants. This paper aims to analyze the influence of local governance on social capital, focused on the urban regeneration projects/programs of old downtown in Masan Hapo District of Changwon City. For the study, we collected 501 questionnaires, but 15 unfulfilled questionnaires were discarded, and,finally 486 collected questionnaires were analyzed by factor analysis. The results of this paper are as follows: The degrees of cooperative decision, solidarity, and recognition are positive effects on the trust for civil servants, NGO, and religious groups. Especially, to increase the trust in society, we need to enhance the degree of cooperative decision. In conclusion, we expect the cooperative decision among the local governance components related in urban regeneration programs, the offering in opportunity to recognize local governance, to contact NGO will be an essential device to increase the trusts, participations,networks, and social tolerance as social capitals.