Every Fourteen Minutes: Achitecture, Urbanization, and Memory Politics in Postwar North Korea by Dr. Cheehyoung Harrison Kim
Thursday, October 29, at 4 PM
Theatre
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The birth of North Korea after the Korean War—centered on state authority and work culture—was distinctly represented by architecture. Architecture was divided into two interconnected types: monumental structures symbolizing the utopian vision of the state and vernacular structures instrumental to the regime of production. Architecture was also part of North Korea’s urbanization efforts through efficiency, prefabrication, and speed. “One apartment every fourteen minutes” was the motto born on the construction sites of Pyongyang. The memory of this postwar urbanization, which involved an immense level of international cooperation, began to fade in the 1970s. Yet this great built environment still stands today. Dr. Cheehyung Harrison Kim will discuss this postwar boom and drive toward construction in this lecture.
ABOUT THE PRESENTER
Dr. Cheehyung Harrison Kim is an associate professor in the Department of History at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa. His research and teaching focus on socialism, labor, industrialism, everyday life, and urbanism in the context of East Asia and North Korea. He is the author of Heroes and Toilers: Work as Life in Postwar North Korea, 1953–1961, published by Columbia University Press. He is also the editor of the journal Korean Studies: Global Research and Critique.
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