This study was to prepare basic framework through which Korean society meets
successful turning point to the era of learning region or provincial education autonomy
by searching for logical relationship between regional human resource development and
social capital formation. To complete the goal, this study case-studied how England,
Singapore, and the US construct regional human resource development system with
regional innovation policies based on strategic planning of forming social capital. In
addition, this study analyzed regional(metropolitan, town, rural area) differences of social
capital of Korean society in order to provide meaningful implications on building
successful regional human resource system contextually based on Korean culture and
value system. As briefly mentioning the findings of this study, social capital contributes
to forming regional network, which is constructed based on voluntary participations and
linkages of all of the main groups relevant to regional human resource development
process. In this context, social capital formation can be referred to as the basis for
building up competitive regional and national economy. For effective regional human
resource development of Korea, this study suggested that regional gaps of trust(institutional, interpersonal), which were revealed in this study, of social capital
must be overcome first. Then, social capital must be considered an essential factor
when setting up regional development policies to construct regional network system for
regional human resource development