KORA398B
Special Topics in Korean Studies; Making Places in Seoul: Cultural History of Urbanism and Development
This is a CIC courseshare course. The instructor, Dr. Pil Ho Kim, is at Ohio State University, but UMD students enroll and receive it at UMD. Characterized by an ever-increasing population, rampant pollution and jam-packed traffic, Seoul has been regarded as a stereotypical postcolonial East Asian megalopolis. Mainly focusing on five districts in Seoul (Jongno, Gangnam, Dongdaemun, Yongsan, and Mapo), this course will explore how they have come to represent different facets of Seoul's urban culture in the past as well as in the present. We will see the birth of modern urban life going back to the colonial period, the reconstruction of the city from the utter destruction of the Korean War, the breakneck speed of urban development in the era of rapid economic growth, and the rise of the new urbanism around the beginning of the new millennium.
Sister Courses: KORA398A, KORA398C, KORA398D, KORA398E, KORA398F, KORA398G, KORA398I, KORA398J, KORA398K, KORA398L, KORA398M, KORA398N, KORA398V, KORA398W, KORA398Y, KORA398Z