MAKING KOREAN MODERN MUSEUMS: JAPANESE COLONIAL BUILDINGS AS HERITAGE AND RESOURCE
0
조회
0
다운로드
4
인용
0
참고문헌
키워드
초록
Since the 2000s, regional museums and memorials specializing in Korean modern history and culture have been created and opened to the public. Public regional museums that purport to cover the “modern” era have one common and significant feature; Japanese colonial architecture serves as a place to collect, preserve, and display artifacts and other visual material associated with Korean modern history. By the end of the 1990s most Japanese colonial buildings and structures, ranging from Japanese Shintō shrines and temples to government buildings had been excised from the Korean landscape. Some Japanese colonial buildings were demolished to symbolically regain sovereignty, while others remain in use due to financial considerations. However, a 2001 amendment to the Cultural Property Protection Law and related social movement have dramatically changed how Japanese colonial buildings are treated: no longer the dregs of the tragic colonial era, they have become heritage and a resource to be preserved and utilized. This change has encouraged the creation of regional modern history museums. This article explores the interpretational shift marked by the birth of modern museums in contemporary Korea. Firstly I examine how, or whether, the construction of Korean regional modern museums housed in Japanese colonial buildings is associated with anti-Japanese nationalism. Concerning this issue, I focus on the contents and configuration of three different exhibit facilities located in Kunsan. Secondly I seek to interpret the consequence and the significance of the interpretational shift in postcolonial Korea that has made preserving and actively utilizing colonial era buildings possible in the light of case studies on three exhibit facilities in Kunsan.
Abstract
Since the 2000s, regional museums and memorials specializing in Korean modern history and culture have been created and opened to the public. Public regional museums that purport to cover the “modern” era have one common and significant feature; Japanese colonial architecture serves as a place to collect, preserve, and display artifacts and other visual material associated with Korean modern history. By the end of the 1990s most Japanese colonial buildings and structures, ranging from Japanese Shintō shrines and temples to government buildings had been excised from the Korean landscape. Some Japanese colonial buildings were demolished to symbolically regain sovereignty, while others remain in use due to financial considerations. However, a 2001 amendment to the Cultural Property Protection Law and related social movement have dramatically changed how Japanese colonial buildings are treated: no longer the dregs of the tragic colonial era, they have become heritage and a resource to be preserved and utilized. This change has encouraged the creation of regional modern history museums. This article explores the interpretational shift marked by the birth of modern museums in contemporary Korea. Firstly I examine how, or whether, the construction of Korean regional modern museums housed in Japanese colonial buildings is associated with anti-Japanese nationalism. Concerning this issue, I focus on the contents and configuration of three different exhibit facilities located in Kunsan. Secondly I seek to interpret the consequence and the significance of the interpretational shift in postcolonial Korea that has made preserving and actively utilizing colonial era buildings possible in the light of case studies on three exhibit facilities in Kunsan.
참고문헌 (33)
- Ashley, Susan, "State Authority and the Public Sphere: Ideas on the Changing Role of the Museum as a Canadian Social Institution", Museum and Society, 3(1), pp.5~17 (2005)
- Bodnar, John, "Remaking America: Public Memory, Commemoration, and Patriotism in the Twentieth Century" (1992), Princeton University Press
- Ch’oe Kil-sŏng, "The destruction of the Japanese colonial Government-General’s building and Fengshi (sic) nationalism in Korea", Bulletin of the Folklore Society of Japan, 218, pp.1~24 (1999)
- Ch’oe Sŏn-ju, "A Study of the preservation of modern Japanese architecture" (2000), Sŏul Sijŏng Kaebal Yŏn’guwŏn
- Han, Jung-sun N., "Japan in the Public Culture of South Korea, 1945–2000s: The Making and Remaking of Colonial Sites and Memories", The Asia-Pacific Journal, 15(2) (2014)
- Hayase Shinzo, "A walk through war memories in Southeast Asia" (2007), Iwanami shoten
- Hein, George E., "In A Companion to Museum Studies" (2011), Blackwell Publishing Ltd
- Huang, Yi-Chih, "National Glory and Traumatism: National", cultural identity construction of National Palace Museum in Taiwan, 2012, pp.14(3), 211~225
- Kal, Hong, "Aesthetic Constructions of Korean Nationalism: Spectacle, politics and history" (2011), Routledge
- Kang Pyŏng-gi, "Historical Cultural Environment in Urban (sic)", Architecture, 40(7), pp.14~19 (1996)
- Kim Chŏng-dong, "study of the history of Korean architecture 1: Fields and periods" (2003), Parŏn
- Kim Chung-gyu, "Stories from the history of Kunsan" (2001), Tosŏ ch’ulp’an an kwa pak
- Kim Hyŏn-chŏng, "Negative heri-tage and community development of Kunsan as Modern Cultural City in South Korea: Focusing on changes of the valuation of colonial architecture since the end of 1990s", Bulletin of the Folklore Society of Japan, 269, pp.35~66 (2012)
- Kim, Kihwan, "Korea—The Lessons of East Asia: A Case of Government-led Development" (1993), The World Bank
- "Modernization"[URL]
- Kim, Euijune, "Decomposition of Regional Income Inequality in Korea", The Review of Regional Studies, 33(3), pp.313~327 (2003)
- Kirok Munhakhoe, "A survey report of shameful culture" (1997), Silch’ŏn Munhaksa
- 2006 city administration plan, "Kunsan si", Kunsan si, ~ (2006)
- 2013 city administration plan, "Kunsan si", Kunsan si, ~ (2013)
- Kunsan Sisa P’yŏnch’an Wiwŏnhoe, "The history of Kunsan, vol. 2" (2000), Kunsan si
- Macdonald, Sharon, "In A Companion to Museum Studies" (2011), Blackwell Publishing Ltd
- Ma, Xiaohua, "In The Unpredictability of the Past" (2007), Duke University Press
- Mitter, Rana, "Behind the Scenes at the Museum: Nationalism, History and Memory in the Beijing War of Resistance Museum, 1987–1997", The China Quarterly, 161, pp.279~293 (2000)
- Cultural Heritage Administration, "A survey report on the former Kunsan branch of the Japanese Eighteenth Bank" (2008), Munhwajaech’ŏng
- A survey report on the former Kunsan branch of the Chosŏn Bank, "Cultural Heritage Administration", Munhwajaech’ŏng, ~ (2009)
- Narotzky, Susana, "A Cargo del Futuro’—Between History and Memory", Critique of Anthropology, 27(4), pp.411~429 (2007)
- Oers, Ron van, "In World Heritage papers 5: Identification and Documentation of Modern Heritage" (2003), UNESCO World Heritage Centre
- Poria, Yaniv, "The show must not go on", Tourism and Hospitality Research, 3(2), pp.115~119 (2001)
- Shields, Rob, "Places on the Margin: Alternative geographies of modernity" (1991), Routledge
- Shin, Gi-wook, "Ethnic Nationalism in Korea : Genealogy, Politics, and Legacy" (2006), Stanford University Press
- Vickers, Edward, "Museums and nationalism in contemporary China", Compare, 37(3), pp.365~382 (2007)
- Williams, Paul, "Memorial Museums : The Global Rush to Commemorate Atrocities" (2007), Berg
- Yi Tong-gi, "How to build a museum for contemporary history?: ‘House of History of the Federal Republic of Germany’ and ‘National Museum of Korean Contemporary History’", Critical Review of History, 96, pp.243~279 (2011)