Abstract This essay explores how Seoul became both a stage for urban planning and an actual site of construction in the late 1960s. The city government and its mayor, Kim Hyŏn-ok, avidly proposed numerous brand-new city designs and construction plans through various media, among which a miniature of 1980s Seoul at the Urban Planning Exhibition (1966) and three-dimensional designs of the Yŏŭido Development Plan were representative cases. Further, those construction projects were implemented as ongoing everyday events in association with a specific discourse, kŏnsŏl. This term was a key concept for urban planning then, indicating the whole process that not only embarked on and carried out those city plans but also changed the city's environment from vacant, canvas-like areas that were created by explosive destruction to multidimensional landscapes with structures of steel frames and concrete blocks, such as high-rise buildings, overpasses, expressways, and embankments that literally demonstrated a Seoul under construction.
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Yusung Kim
The Journal of Asian Studies
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synapsesocial.com/papers/69843451f1d9ada3c1fb242c — DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00219118-12257589