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.
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Abstract I. INTRODUCTION : JAPANESE COLONIAL BUILDINGS AS NEGATIVE HERITAGE AND THE BIRTH OF A REGIONAL MODERN MUSEUM IN POSTCOLONIAL KOREA II. KUNSAN AS A COLONIAL CITY AND THE GUNSAN MODERN ART MUSEUM III. THE GUNSAN MODERN ARCHITECTURE EXHIBITION HALL IV. THE GUNSAN MODERN HISTORY MUSEUM V. DEALING WITH RISK AND CRITICISM : KUNSAN ON THE MARGIN AND THE HUMILIATION OF JAPANESE COLONIAL BUILDINGS VI. CONCLUSION REFERENCES
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Japanese colonial buildingKorean modern museumsmodern historynationalismmodern cultural heritage
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KIM HYEON-JEONG [ Assistant Professor, Center for Nortbeast Asian Studies, Toboku University, Japan ]
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