'Difficult Heritage' in Nation Building South Korea and Post-Conflict Japanese Colonial Occupation Architecture /

• Main Author: Lee, Hyun Kyung (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: Palgrave Studies in Cultural Heritage and Conflict
• Subjects: Cultural heritage.; Ethnology-Asia.; Korea-History.; Asia-Politics and government.; Sociology, Urban.; Cultural Heritage.; Asian Culture.; History of Korea.; Asian Politics.; Urban Studies/Sociology.

This book explores South Korean responses to the architecture of the Japanese colonial occupation of Korea and the ways that architecture illustrates the relationship between difficult heritage and the formation of national identity. Detailing the specific case of Seoul, Hyun Kyung Lee investigates...