복원과 개발로 만들어지는 부산의 문화지형 - 영도대교와 롯데타운을 중심으로 -

Abstract

In regard to Yeongdo Bridge being restored and Lotte Town being developed at present in the old downtown of Busan, this thesis aims to analyze the ideology working behind the restoration and development in a critical way, further discussing how the way of adopting the ideology is associated the formation of locality of Busan. To begin with, this study inquired into historical facts about Yeongdo Bridge and Lotte Town(the sites of old Busan City Hall), and based on the findings, this study attempted to make a critical approach to Movement of 'Now and Here', inclined to reproduce and restore things in the past. Having been built during the Japanese colonial period, Yeongdo Bridge became the center of Korean national history with its placeness and narrative while going through the Korean War, but in the visual representation, it ceaselessly reproduced 'modernity (bascule bridge)' from the colonial period. In other words, the existence of Yeongdo Bridge is to secure its place identity while constantly arousing the memory about the Korean War with the memory of colonization excluded. On the other hand, Lotte Town seems to be one of the typical examples of a consuming city of images and spectacles or placelessness, but it actually reproduces and succeeds to the colonized placeness (a site where building of colonial modernity were concentrated, such as Busan Prefectorial Office and Minakai Department Store). In this way, experiences about Japan or colonization immanent in both the sites have constantly interfered in the change of the present memory and cultural topography, while dominating Busan after colonization. It is not easy to predict how meaningfully both the in-process restoration of Yeongdo Bridge and development of Lotte Town will work on the creation of a new cultural topography for Busan. However, as the previous 'locality of Busan' is merged into the present 'locality of Busan', the topographical change being made nowadays is more likely to contribute to creating the future 'locality of Busan' as well, which will be another prediction for the history of this area. Consequently, it is within bounds to say that the composition of 'locality of Busan' depends on how seriously we consider historical and cultural cracks and severances caused in the process of restoring the old downtown of Busan.