History of Urban Development and the Lives of the Ruled Class of Seoul during the 1960s and 1970s
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Course Introduction
Through the eyes of Korean literature in the 1960s and 1970s, this course explores how the urban space of Seoul has changed and how literature perceived and represented those changes.
Learning Objectives
∙ Understand the meaning of reading urban space through literature.
∙ Comprehend how urban planning from above and the desires of the masses expressed from below met and influenced the transformation and formation of urban space.
∙ Understand how the lives of the common people, urban poor, and other marginalized classes have changed amid the changes in Seoul.
∙ Recognize how the changes in Seoul that began in the 1960s and 1970s have continued to the present.
Course Structure
This course consists of a total of 8 weeks. The lectures in each week are organized into three to six videos by topic.
Subtitles
Korean, English, Chinese
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8-1. Multilayered Hierarchization of Seoul’s Urban Space -
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8-2. Displaced People and the Rise of Class Antagonism
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8-3. Pain Suffered by the People in the Satellite City Seongnam
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8-4. The Legally Excluded Socially Disadvantaged
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8-5. Thinking Seoul during the 1960s and 1970s from Today’s Perspective
Song, Eun Young
Eun Young Song is Research Professor at the Institute of Korean Studies, Yonsei University.
