Walkerhill Resort: A Space of Exception in Post-war South Korea

Seo, AYI

Walkerhill Resort: A Space of Exception in Post-war South Korea

Seo, AYI

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Publisher:: Routledge
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Citation:: Coastal Architectures and Politics of Tourism: Leisurescapes in the Global Sunbelt, 2022, pp. 329-344
Issue Date:: 2022-07-29

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dc.contributor.author	Seo, AYI
dc.contributor.editor	Bozdoğan, S
dc.contributor.editor	Pyla, P
dc.contributor.editor	Phokaides, P
dc.date.accessioned	2022-09-06T08:26:23Z
dc.date.available	2022-09-06T08:26:23Z
dc.date.issued	2022-07-29
dc.identifier.citation	Coastal Architectures and Politics of Tourism: Leisurescapes in the Global Sunbelt, 2022, pp. 329-344
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/161439
dc.description.abstract	This chapter examines South Korea’s first modern resort Walkerhill that was built to attract foreign tourists and the American GIs in the region. It shows how the resort operated as a liminal space of tensions and ambiguities: as a tool for the authoritarian state to coerce a more favorable discourse of modernity through the prolonged stimulation of an imminent threat from the North on the one hand, and stirring the public’s imagination of a capitalist prosperous society while patronizing national doctrines of frugality on the other. Through a selective imposition of rules and physical boundaries, Walkerhill disrupted the locals and their basic rights to the city, functioning as a reminder of their exclusion. Ironically, however, it was also these rules that had made Walkerhill unique. In the same manner as it was identified as an icon of discrimination, Walkerhill also came to act as a zone of spatial emancipation.
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dc.title	Walkerhill Resort: A Space of Exception in Post-war South Korea
dc.type	Chapter
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Design, Architecture and Building
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Design, Architecture and Building/School of Architecture
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Abstract:

This chapter examines South Korea’s first modern resort Walkerhill that was built to attract foreign tourists and the American GIs in the region. It shows how the resort operated as a liminal space of tensions and ambiguities: as a tool for the authoritarian state to coerce a more favorable discourse of modernity through the prolonged stimulation of an imminent threat from the North on the one hand, and stirring the public’s imagination of a capitalist prosperous society while patronizing national doctrines of frugality on the other. Through a selective imposition of rules and physical boundaries, Walkerhill disrupted the locals and their basic rights to the city, functioning as a reminder of their exclusion. Ironically, however, it was also these rules that had made Walkerhill unique. In the same manner as it was identified as an icon of discrimination, Walkerhill also came to act as a zone of spatial emancipation.

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