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The essence of urban regeneration is to make people actively participate in its entire processes for both finding their concerns and needs and enhancing the validity of plans. Therefore public deliberation process should be considered as a key factor for urban regeneration. This paper attempts to analyze critically the ‘Seoulro7017 Project’ with the ideal speech conditions of Habermas and the public opinion theory of Lippmann. This paper synthesizes four procedural conditions of successful public deliberation for high level of substantive citizen participation: inclusiveness, publicity, autonomy, and sufficiency. This paper concludes the ‘Seoulro7017 Project’ did not meet none of the four conditions. This paper further suggests that high level of substantive public deliberation could allow people with the variety of interests to participate in a planning process that shares information, facilitates various views and perspectives without distortion, and has sufficient amount of time to discuss and argue each other.