Cultural city is not a city simply with cultural appearance, but a city in which citizen can enjoy cultural life living in convenient. safe, and beautiful circumstances. In this point, Seoul is far away from cultural city. To truly be cultural city, space policy of Seoul must be changed on a large scale. Foremost, Space policy must be considered as culture policy. Culture is the process and consequence of human life. In this perspective, proper improvement of the given is more important than breaking down the given and making the new. And it is very important to clear the wrong. So, the starting point toward cultural city for Seoul is to establish the truly cultural perspective.