History of Urban Development and the Lives of the Ruled Class of Seoul during the 1960s and 1970s
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
1. Expansion of Seoul in the Early and Mid-1960s and People’s Desire to Go to Seoul
2. Residential Areas and Residences in Seoul in the Early and Mid-1960s
3. Urban Development in Seoul since 1966
4. Reorganization of Seoul’s Urban Center from 1966 to 1972
5. The Lives and Living of the Ruled from 1966 to 1972
6. Development of Gangman and the Real Estate Myth from 1972 to 1978
7. Growth of the Middle Class and the Apartment Culture from 1972 to 1978
8. Hierarchization of Urban Space of Seoul and the Urban Lower Class from 1972 to 1978
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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.