Data and code for "Industrial Parks, Dispersed Industry and the Encroachment of Rural Settlement Space: An Industrial Effect-Zone Analysis of 1,232 Townships in South Korea"

Data and code supporting the revised manuscript: An, M., Jo, H., & Kang, Y. Industrial Parks, Dispersed Industry and the Encroachment of Rural Settlement Space: An Industrial Effect-Zone Analysis of 1,232 Townships in South Korea. Land (revised manuscript land-4585472, under review). This is version v20260930, a new version of the record first published for the original submission (v20260909). The revised study replaces the county-level fragmentation and population analysis of the original submission with a township-level industrial effect-zone analysis of 1,232 townships (eup and myeon) in 121 non-capital counties of South Korea. It measures the exposure of current settlement land (residential land and farmland) within 50–500 m of industrial land cover, the reduction of the largest contiguous settlement patch outside that zone (contiguity reduction), and the contributions of industry inside and outside industrial park boundaries, including their association with the contiguity reduction per unit of industrial area. It also measures the observed conversion of settlement land to industry in 2000–2007, compared with a placebo cohort of townships whose parks were designated later, and reviews in full text the national siting standards and the planning ordinances of the study counties. Contents:- code/: all processing and analysis scripts (Python and R). The township analysis is in s26a, s29, s29b, s29c and s29d; the ordinance review is in s28, s28b and s28c; scripts s00–s25 cover data acquisition, rasterisation, comparability diagnostics and the county-level context; s30 builds this archive.- data_derived/township/: township-level indicators by county, year (2000, 2007, 2025) and settlement definition; conversion of settlement land in 2000–2007; the 1 ha minimum-mapping-unit variant; pooled tables; and the summary file of all reported statistics and regressions.- data_derived/county/: county-level tables used for context and diagnostics (park designation, accretion of new industrial land, conversion models, cross-source comparison).- data_derived/ordinances/: distance clauses extracted from county planning ordinances, the verified rules for factories, and the retrieved text of each ordinance with its annexes.- raster_30m/: 30 m rasters of the Level-2 land cover (2000, 2007, 2025) for each county, the input to all spatial analyses.- logs/: acquisition and processing logs.- figures/: the seven figures of the revised manuscript.- supplementary/: Supplementary Materials (PDF) and Supplementary Tables S7a, S7b, S8a and S8b (CSV). Raw source data (Ministry of Environment Level-2 land cover maps, township boundaries of the National Geographic Information Institute, industrial park polygons of the Industrial Location Information System, and records of the Korea Industrial Complex Corporation) are public but are not redistributed here; they can be re-acquired with the included scripts. The Open API key of the Korean Law Information Center is read from an environment variable and is not included. README.md lists the data sources, the order in which to run the scripts and the software requirements. Licence: code is released under the MIT Licence; derived tables, rasters and figures under CC BY 4.0. Ordinance texts are public legal texts of the Republic of Korea. Source data remain under the terms of their respective providers.