• Date: January 10th, Friday, 2020, 14:30 – 17:00
• Location: Room 406, SNUAC (Bldg.101)
• Speakers:
  01 Baegyoon Park (SNU Dept. of Geographic Education)
  A Radical Reconstruction of the Smart City Discourses in the Era of Urban Revolution

  02 Sang Yoon Lee (Center for Health and Social Change)
  Smart city and Health: Critical approach to digital health03 Suyoung Kang (SNUAC Center for Asian Urban Society)
  Smart Airport-City: A History of the Immigration System in Korea

  04 Mook-Han Kim (Research Fellow at The Seoul Institute)
  The economy of smart city and the role of local industrial eco-system

  05 Han-Byul Shim (SNUAC Center for Asian Urban Society)
  Smart city in everyday lives: Flows under data technology

On January 10th, 2020, Center for Asian Urban Societies held <‘Smart City’ Reading Seminar – 3rd Session> jointly with Urban Theory Research Group.

Prof. Baegyoon Park’s <A Radical Reconstruction of the Smart City Discourses in the Era of Urban Revolution> explained the existing discussion of the fourth Industrial Revolution and smart city, and suggested an ‘urban perspective’ as an alternative perspective to the 4IR. This suggests that new urban phenomena should not only be regarded as technological and economic phenomena but the socio-spatial setting of cities must be noted as well.

Sang Yoon Lee’s <Smart city and Health: Critical approach to digital health> raised a discussion of how to construct a smart city to ameliorate health inequalities. Along with approaches that pursue the group over individuals and cooperation over profit, planning a ‘citizen-scientific’ method was suggested.

Suyoung Kang’s <Smart Airport-City: A History of the Immigration System in Korea> examined the process of technology being introduced in cities, centering around the immigration system in airports. Recent attempts to utilize airports as the testbeds of smart city show us a direct correlation between airports and smart cities, and raise the need for us to note the ‘smartification’ in various parts of cities beyond the smart city project.

Mook-Han Kim’s <The economy of smart city and the role of local industrial eco-system> raised a question on how the growth of the smart city market relates to the economic development of the region. Though there are many discussions on the ‘market’ of smart cities, we lack discussion on the ‘economy’. He introduced the current figures of the smart city industry, and proposed a bottom-up method of forming an ecosystem of the smart city industry in the region based on the excavation of urban issues in the region.

Han-Byul Shim’s <Smart city in everyday lives: Flows under data technology> called for a new understanding of smart city as all phenomena of information technology and city being combined, beyond understanding it as an instrumental cognition model of information technologies such as new urban services. Along with discussions on questions that we can pose and the objects in the technology-city frame of smart cities, there were case introductions on transportation and logistics such as Smart Factory and Baemin.

This event concluded the three sessions of <‘Smart City’ Reading Seminar>. A monograph on smart city will be published in the future, with chapters from what has been discussed in the seminar.