Seoul – Memory, Reinvention, and the Korean Wave King Hardback 9780824872052

SeoulMemory, Reinvention, and the Korean Wave\nAuthor(s): Ross King\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: University of Hawai'i Press, United States\nImprint: University of Hawai'i Press\nISBN-13: 9780824872052, 978-0824872052\nSynopsis\nSeoul is a colossus both in its physical presence and the demand it places on any intellectual effort to understand it. How did it come to be? How can a city this immense work? Underlying its spectacle and incongruities is a city that might be described as ill at ease with its own past. The bitter rifts of Japanese colonization persist, as does the troubled aftermath of the Korean War and its divisions; the economic Miracle on the Han that followed is crosscut by memories of the violent dictatorship that drove it.\n\nIn Seoul, author Ross King interrogates this contested history and its physical remnants, tacking between the citys historiography and architecture, with attention to monuments, streets, and other urban spaces. The books structuring device is th?