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The Multi-cultural Space of the Great Han Empire : Jeong-dong

  • 중앙사론
  • 2012, (36), pp.63~98
  • Publisher : Institute for Historical Studies at Chung-Ang University
  • Research Area : Humanities > History

Park, Kyoung-ha 1

1중앙대학교

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ABSTRACT

Seoul, the capital of South Korean, is fingering compressed growth with a huge city of population of ten million people over the past 100 years. Especially Jeong-dong among the center of Seoul is where the city's cultural heritage and modern features engaged in the stratified region physically and historically. When I look at them in an integrated and holistic view, its dynamics can be read in the full, and we will be able to identify as affectively multi-cultural nature of enlightenment by the historical layers overlap. In this paper, I examined that Jeong-dong’s nature of as a multi-cultural space for the Great Han empire divided into three; Emperor Gojong’s Han fortress renovation plan, Jeong-dong’s function as diplomacy Town building the legation of the western countries surrounding Gyeongungung Palace, and the meaning of Jeong-dong as the cradle of missionary activity and modern education. And I mentioned above, a strange coexistence of diverse and unique Jeong-dong’s space, the appearance as a source of new culture international exchanges and the stage of diplomacy, and from now, for more than 110 years ago it was Jeong-dong’s view as a multi-cultural space of the Great Han Empire . Today's Jeong-dong also as a base of creative and vibrant core of Seoul Korean multi-cultural society the 21st century fused, history, art, and cultural diversity. Developing a variety of cultural harmony and physical space scattered in Jeong-dong, achieving culture hub meeting international cultural exchange center. It's the Jeong-dong’s look that lives in a multi-cultural society the 21st century.

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This paper was written with support from the National Research Foundation of Korea.