| Title |
A Study about Modernization and World's Fair |
| Keywords |
World’s Fair ; Exposition ; Modernization ; Nationalism ; Tradition's Characteristic ; Attachment |
| Abstract |
There have been a number of debates in Korea and worldwide, over the architectural technique used for the World’s Fair taken place during the colonial Chosun. Most of such debates have discussed that the modernized Japan, when planning the World’s Fair, employed the exhibition technique with a dualistic characteristic that presented the Western nations and Japan as a modernized civilization, in contrast with the colonial nations that included Chosun as a pre-modernized civilization. However, no debate has been taken place on the following subjects. What kind of exhibition was planned in Japan in relation with modernization? Were there differences between the Western nations and Japan when planning an World’s Fair, in relation with expressing the modernization? Also, what did the reflection of such modernization mean to the planning of the World’s Fair in the colonial Chosun? Is it really necessary to understand it as a dualistic technique that contrasted Japan as modernized and Chosun as pre-modernized? Furthermore, there has been no discussion over what such debates have meant to the planning of recent world fair in Korea. Thus, it is a goal of this study to discuss all of the above. |