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The physical-social characteristics of cities are critical factors for determining employments of knowledge, culture and leisure industries. The potential employment power of knowledge, culture and leisure industries is attracted policy-makers’ attention in the era of 4th Industrial Revolution. However, there has been lack of studies for knowledge, culture and leisure industries in terms of employment. The objective of this research is to identify the positive and/or negative association between urban physical-social characteristics and employments of knowledge, culture and leisure industries, and to measure the impact level of urban characteristics to the employments of knowledge, culture and leisure industries. This research uses the 2000~2015 census data sets of characteristics of establishment based on the si-gun-gu governments provided by the Statistics Korea for geographical and statistical analyses. Research results show that there are strong association between urban physical-social characteristics and employments of knowledge, culture and leisure industries. The Industry Agglomerations and economic power of cities significantly affects positive increase in employments of knowledge, culture and leisure industries. This research reveals the importance of economic power enhancement policies for creation of knowledge-based high-income jobs of knowledge, culture and leisure industries.