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The agendas of regional development policy has been changed following to society issues of those days. Main agenda of the early regional development policy was the issue of inter-regional disparity. After that, the succeeding agenda was the issue of regional competitiveness. Currently, most countries covering advanced and developing countries, including South Korea, have the problems of worsening social polarization and conflict in regions. This study analyzes the regional development policy agendas and examines the possibility of the combining between regional development policy and social development policy. On the result of this study, we can recognize that the agendas of regional development policy follow to the society’s issues and people’s interests. The agendas of regional development policy has progressed from regional disparity to regional competitiveness. Nowadays, the agenda is going to the social cohesion-oriented regional development policy. And this policy approach brings more positive effects on regions and communities. So, I would like to conclude that achieving social cohesion in regional development policy could bring more warm society and region.