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Globalizing Seoul - The City's Cultural and Urban Change (Paperback)
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Globalizing Seoul - The City's Cultural and Urban Change (Paperback)
Series: Planning, History and Environment Series
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In the decades following the 1997 Asian economic crisis, South
Korea sought segyehwa (globalization). Evidence of this is no more
evident than in the country's capital, Seoul, where urban
development has been central to making the city a global hub and
not just the centre of the national economy. However, recent
development projects differ from those of the past in that they no
longer focus solely on economic efficiency, but on the deployment
of a new urban aesthetics. As Jieheerah Yun reveals in Globalizing
Seoul: The City's Cultural and Urban Change, the pursuit of
globalization and the rebranding of Seoul's image from hard
industrial city to soft cultural city have shaped the urban
development of the city. Following a brief urban history of Seoul,
she focuses on two key themes. In the first, how globalization has
contributed to refashioning Korean traditions, she analyzes the
policies and actions to preserve Korean folk houses and
pre-industrial street layouts, looking in detail at the Bukchon and
Insadong areas of the city. Her second theme is an examination of
migration and the generation of new minority neighbourhoods amidst
the segyehwa policies and the state's efforts to build a
multicultural society. In detailed case studies of the
redevelopment of Dongdaemun Market as part of rebranding Seoul as
the 'world design capital' and of the Itaewon area as both a
Special Tourist Zone and a Global Cultural Zone, she shows how
multi-ethnic neighbourhoods are threatened by lack of consideration
for economic justice and housing provision.
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