Market, Cinema, and the Afterlives of Infrastructure: Layered Urban Memory in Kyungdong 1960
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This paper develops an infrastructure-based approach to examine Kyungdong 1960, an urban regeneration project in Seoul. It focuses on the recontextualization of a second-run cinema on the city’s periphery, which was transformed into a global coffee chain as part of revitalizing a traditional market. This transformation altered the spatial dynamics of the area, fostering new forms of social interaction while reflecting and disrupting the historical hierarchy of local theaters. By analyzing this site as both a physical and analytical infrastructure, the paper highlights how built environments mediate affect, memory, and neoliberal urban redevelopment. The Kyungdong 1960 project thus reveals inevitable tensions between preservation and commercialization implicated in the urban regenerations while offering a lens through which to examine the intersection of Korea’s cinematic history and urban sociology.
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This paper develops an infrastructure-based approach to examine Kyungdong 1960, an urban regeneration project in Seoul. It focuses on the recontextualization of a second-run cinema on the city’s periphery, which was transformed into a global coffee chain as part of revitalizing a traditional market. This transformation altered the spatial dynamics of the area, fostering new forms of social interaction while reflecting and disrupting the historical hierarchy of local theaters. By analyzing this site as both a physical and analytical infrastructure, the paper highlights how built environments mediate affect, memory, and neoliberal urban redevelopment. The Kyungdong 1960 project thus reveals inevitable tensions between preservation and commercialization implicated in the urban regenerations while offering a lens through which to examine the intersection of Korea’s cinematic history and urban sociology.