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Seoul's Urban Planning and the 'Future City' Initiative in the 1960s - Focusing on the Construction of Sewoon Shopping Center

  • 탈경계인문학Trans-Humanities
  • 2022, 15(2), pp.31-53
  • DOI : 10.22901/trans.2022.15.2.31
  • Publisher : Ewha Institute for the Humanities: EIH
  • Research Area : Humanities > Other Humanities
  • Received : September 25, 2022
  • Accepted : October 18, 2022
  • Published : October 31, 2022

Soo Ja Kim 1

1이화여자대학교

Accredited

ABSTRACT

This study examines the gap between the idea of a "future city" and the reality that was advocated during the construction of Sewoon Shopping Center in Seoul in 1966. The construction of Sewoon Shopping Center, which was carried out as a "meeting" between Seoul Mayor Kim Hyun-ok and architect Kim Soo-geun, was linked to the city's urban development and at the same time to the exhibition effect on "economic development" advocated by the Park Chung-hee Administration. The words that modify Sewoon Shopping Center, which is a building with the largest, world's best, and advanced facilities, were also used in the Presidential election that followed the achievements of the Park Chung-hee regime's "modernization" at the time of its construction. However, the 'future' spatial characteristics of Sewoon Shopping Center, such as public walking decks, separation of pedestrians and cars, public gardens, and future schools, which were presented at the beginning of its construction, were transformed, abandoned, and became different spaces whenever faced with political, economic, and practical problems.

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