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@article{ART001404841},
author={염복규},
title={The Formation and its Meaning of the Network of Roads in Kyungseong City in the First Half of the 1910's},
journal={The Review of Korean History},
issn={1225-133X},
year={2009},
number={96},
pages={267-303}

TY - JOUR
AU - 염복규
TI - The Formation and its Meaning of the Network of Roads in Kyungseong City in the First Half of the 1910's
JO - The Review of Korean History
PY - 2009
VL - null
IS - 96
PB - The Historical Society Of Korea
SP - 267
EP - 303
SN - 1225-133X
AB - About the time of assimilation of Chosen, the Japanese Government General began the City Street Improvement project of Kyungseong and aimed at reorganizing its road networks. In this project, Japanese colonialists ignored the symbolic spatial structure, which had been formed when Chosen was established in the fourteenth century, and the remaining outcome of the city reconstruction project performed during the last days of the dynasty. The aim of the street improvement project colonialists set was to reorganize the central Kyungseong streets into a grid pattern, following the example of the modern urban planning of the west. The first half of the 1910's saw the most stable and fruitful execution of the Kyungseong street improvement project. The focus of this period was building of main road running through north and south of the city, which concluded at the opening of the Chosen Industrial Exhibition in 1915. By the result of this project, the Japanese colonialists built a controlling network crisscrossing Kyungseong, resembling modern urban space of the west. One distinctive feature of the execution of this project was the confrontation between the greater aims of the colonial rulers and private interests of Japanese residents in Kyungseong. First, though the Japanese emigrants appealed for the streets in Honmachitori(本町通), a symbolic center of Japanese settlement in the colonial capital, to be repaired persistently, the Government General refused to give priority to this area. After this disagreement, settlers resisted the expropriation of their estates for the purpose of the project by the government so vehemently that the government condemned them as betrayers of its effort at inducing civilization. The conflicts between Japanese colonialist rulers and settlers showed us that the Japanese aim of "civilization" through transplanting western culture during this period was a greater one not restricted by the interests of Japanese citizens. The process and result of the improvement project of central Kyungseong was a good example of the strategy of Japanese colonialism.
KW - civilization;Kyungseong City Street Improvement;grid-pattern spatial structure;Chosen Industrial Exibition;Japanese residents in Kyungseong
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염복규. (2009). The Formation and its Meaning of the Network of Roads in Kyungseong City in the First Half of the 1910's. The Review of Korean History, 96, 267-303.

염복규. 2009, "The Formation and its Meaning of the Network of Roads in Kyungseong City in the First Half of the 1910's", The Review of Korean History, no.96, pp.267-303.

염복규 "The Formation and its Meaning of the Network of Roads in Kyungseong City in the First Half of the 1910's" The Review of Korean History 96 pp.267-303 (2009) : 267.

염복규. The Formation and its Meaning of the Network of Roads in Kyungseong City in the First Half of the 1910's. 2009; 96 : 267-303.

염복규. "The Formation and its Meaning of the Network of Roads in Kyungseong City in the First Half of the 1910's" The Review of Korean History no.96(2009) : 267-303.

염복규. The Formation and its Meaning of the Network of Roads in Kyungseong City in the First Half of the 1910's. The Review of Korean History, 96, 267-303.

염복규. The Formation and its Meaning of the Network of Roads in Kyungseong City in the First Half of the 1910's. The Review of Korean History. 2009; 96 267-303.

염복규. The Formation and its Meaning of the Network of Roads in Kyungseong City in the First Half of the 1910's. 2009; 96 : 267-303.

염복규. "The Formation and its Meaning of the Network of Roads in Kyungseong City in the First Half of the 1910's" The Review of Korean History no.96(2009) : 267-303.