문화도시 기획의 의미와 해석 : ‘전주전통문화중심도시’를 중심으로

Abstract

In the present, cultural factors are essential to describe a city. A city, however, cannot be a cultural one as itself. It needs an artificial planning. This article is aimed to concentrate on the fact that a cultural city is artificially planned, and to investigate what meanings the planning includes. In this article, I examined it with the example of 'Jeonju: Traditional Cultural Core City' ('Traditional City' as below), and found three meanings. First, the project of 'Traditional City' has been proceeded politically in a great measure. It has provided a place of symbolic struggle and identical competition, unfolded inside and outside of the local community. Second, traditional culture and 'Traditional City' include ideological attributes. They are some devices to make us to believe that Jeonju is abundant with traditional cultural factors. Third, traditional culture comes to include good's value in the process of creating the image of global traditional cultural tourism city. The case of 'Traditional City' shows that its planning is developed quite politically. In the process, cultural symbols of a city are constructed selectively. Some ideological devices are also created to make people accept such symbols plausibly. These cultural symbols are to be packed and consumed in the mechanism of local development. In the end, this article shows that culture is not a universal value and way of life in accumulated notion, but constructed thing in the politic and economic circumstances.