Linking the Han River and the Taedong River: A Exploration on the Cultural Integration of South and North Korea through the Study of Pyongyang Urban Culture

Date: February 28th, Wednesday, 2024, 14:00 – 17:00
Location: Room 303, SNUAC (Bldg. 101)

A joint academic conference of UniKorea Foundation and SNUAC North East Asia Center

14:00~14:10 Opening Ceremony

Greetings: Baek Yung Kim (Dept. of Sociology, SNU, Director of NEAC)

14:10~15:10 Moderator: Baek Yung Kim (SNU)

The Formation of Early Modernist Art and the Status of Pyongyang – Minjoo Cho (SNU)

The History of ‘Memory’ and Development in Modern and Contemporary Taedong River: Focusing on the historical symbolism of Taedong River – Taeyoon Kim (SNU)

Discussion: Sookyung Shin (Chungnam Univ.), Changhee Park (Sungkyunkwan Univ.)

15:20~17:00 Moderator: Soonjick Hong (SNU)

The Leisure, Desire of the Han River and Taedong River and Their Convergence? (video) – Hyungjong Noh (Soongshil Univ.)

The Birth of Taedong River View and Han River View: A comparative urbanist interpretation on the waterside residential blocks and gaze of desire in Pyongyang and Seoul – Jintae Hwang (Dongguk Univ.)

The Transformation of Kim Jong Un Regime’s Discourse of ‘People’ Mobilization Seen Through Text Mining: Focusing on articles on the development of Taedong River – Sujin Lim (SNU)

Discussion: Jaeheon Han (Dongguk Univ.), Sihyo Lee (Soongshil Univ.), Joohee Hwang (Korea Univ.)