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A Study of Wonsan-Theater in Wonsan on Japanese Colonial Era: Focusing on the Founding and the Use of the Cultural Hub of Local Area

kim nam-seok 1

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ABSTRACT

This study examines the construction process of the cultural hub of local area and the artistic or commercial use of Wonsan-theater. The Wonsan-theater shows the cultural tension between ‘Koreans conquered’ and ‘Japanese residing in Korea.’ Wonsan-theater is the theater that was built on Wonsan 1927. Wonsan-theater was basically a theater, and was as a public hall. Construction subject of Wonsan-theater was native merchants lived in Wonsan on Japanese Colonial Era. Traders forces included No Giman, Han Goonpil, Kim Kyeongjoon and Han Chihang. This merchants had built a theater and public hall for Koreans, and had configured the ‘Wonsan City Operations Association’ and the ‘Corporation for Wonsan-theater’. Wonsan-theater was basically operating as space for commercial interests. Wonsan-theater was the theater as a space built for Koreans, these applications was diluted and eventually fell by commercial interests.

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