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Dongdaemun Stadium: Between Korean Tradition, Colonial Memory, and Dreams for the Future

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Built in 1925, Dongdaemun Stadium was Korea’s first modern sports stadium, located in the capital city, Seoul. Lee investigates the transformation of Dongdaemun Stadium to the modern day Dongdaemun Design Plaza and Park, tracing its place biography from the pre-colonial period, across the colonial period, to the post-colonial period. To illuminate how colonial legacies were dealt with in post-colonial Korea, she examines memory conflicts between city authorities and a diverse rank of opponents: civic groups, sports fans, baseball professionals, as well as merchants from the neighbouring Dongdaemun market, scrutinising how accumulated memories were negotiated and managed, and how selected memories were finally visually represented at the site.

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Lee, H.K. (2019). Dongdaemun Stadium: Between Korean Tradition, Colonial Memory, and Dreams for the Future. In: 'Difficult Heritage' in Nation Building. Palgrave Studies in Cultural Heritage and Conflict. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-66338-8_5

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