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The present study considers the formation of the Seongsoo Semi-industrial District developed by the post-war land readjustment project and traces the process of its transfor-mation in light of handmade shoes and auto maintenance and repair industries in order to establish the roles assumed by the Seongsoo Industrial Complex in Seoul. Due to the Cheonggyecheon development during the postwar years, companies were forced to settle in Seongsoo-dong, where labour-intensive sewing, textile, leather and ma-chinery industries emerged subsequently. In 1972, the national City Beautiful Movement coerced small businesses into moving out of the city center, reproaching them for impeding the modernization and development of sound urban environment. The movement was intended to secure commercial and business functions in the inner city center, while at the same time attributing Seoul’s old structural and inherent problems to small companies. On account of the exorbitant land price, restricted land use and controlled factory construc-tion in the city center within the boundaries of 4 Gates, small companies had no choice but to move to the outskirts of the city. For half a century, the small businesses in the Seongsoo Industrial Complex in Seoul have been kept out coercively in the name of urban renewal projects by central and local governments. Seoul Metropolitan Government plans to build a dynamic corporate ecosys-tem by developing handmade shoes, printing and auto maintenance and repair trades into a convergence model embracing conventional industries and state-of-the-art IT, by setting up an organic business support system and by vitalizing networks.The three trades are highly likely to work for the benefit of Seongsoo-dong’s urban identity. Yet, other small-scale trades of machinery, metals, manufacturing, wholesale/retail and services are most likely to be excluded from the plan. As a matter of fact, the current policy to support the aforementioned three trades only draws substantial criticism. Thus, it is necessary to create an industrial ecosystem in consideration of the place-ness and historicity of the Seongsoo Industrial Complex in Seoul.