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From today's Hankyoreh:
Satire of S.Korea’s redevelopment created by German artist
An art installation near the Blue House was created to highlight the “contradiction” of redevelopment
“So they are redeveloping the neighborhood right next to Cheong Wa Dae? Is that the president’s decision? How big is the area?”
“What, they’re doing this without even telling the people that live here?”
These are the sorts of whispers heard around the area of 30, Tongui-dong, opposite the western side of Cheong Wa Dae (the presidential office in South Korea or Blue House) and the Gyeongbokgung Palace in Seoul. It began on May 7, after a real estate agent’s office in a shipping container appeared on the corner of two alleyways and put up a bird’s eye view drawing of a plan to redevelop the entire area by putting up blocks of massive apartments in front of the Blue House.
Lying up against the side of a nearby building site, the office features a neon sign saying “Royal Blue Real Estate.” Unusually, its facade is made entirely of glass. A look inside reveals a drawing of state-of-the-art, 18-story apartment blocks filling the Tongui neighborhood area that are outrageously to be erected directly in front of the Cheong Wa Dae, an area reserved for the president. The telephone number on the sign, 02-77*-8888, does not exist.
Is it fake? The answer is yes. The whole real estate agent is fake. The drawing and the sign are also fake. It turns out that they are an installation work by an artist. The fact that the site of the building sits just next to an art gallery adds extra, delicate resonance.
The creator of the work is Oliver Griem, a 46-year-old German video installation artist. Griem, who has worked in South Korea for 14 years, says his intention was to express the absurd paradox of redevelopment by installing a structure like a real estate agent’s office on a construction site.
“My aim was to surprise people by showing them a plan for redevelopment next to Cheong Wa Dae, thereby giving them a new sense of the contradiction of redevelopment,” he says. “I live in Bogwang neighborhood, and when I saw the Hannam New Town construction project going obstinately ahead recently despite opposition from the people living there, I thought of creating this work.” Griem added, “My inspiration for using a shipping container also came from the temporary real state agent offices that spring up like mushrooms when redevelopment takes place.”
“The hardest thing to understand is how most South Koreans, who are always talking about tradition, like living in apartments and like to see the neighborhoods they live in being torn down as long as it brings them the promise of money,” says Griem.
The installation is a space project by Tongui neighborhood’s KunstDoc Gallery & Institute and will be demolished after “operating” until May 27...(*)
http://english.hani.co.kr/arti/english_edition/e_national/420803.html
* Some more info you'll get here!
* The Duriban building (aka "Little Yongsan") is an occupied house in Seoul's Hongdae district(**).
A part of the building used to be a Korean food restaurant run by a couple, but then the gov't announced the notorious "redevelopment plan" and the "construction mafia" (supported by the municipality/district office) bought the designated area and the land price went up by 10 folds and the poor tenants like the restaurant woman and her husband had to leave the building with nothing because the new owner of the land sent gansters and thugs to kick out them, like tens of thousands other poor people in Seoul.
After several days - it was the early morning of Dec 26, 2009 - the couple decided to occupy the whole building and started a sit-in struggle.
April 3 marked the 100th day of the sit-in struggle and the resistance is still going on.
** Subway line No. 2, Hongik Univ Stn(exit No. 4) --> 100 m straight ahead to the "redevelopment" zone --> Duriban B/D
Y'day afternoon in Seoul: despite degrees below zero and snowfall the so-called "Illegal Concert" took place near the site of the Yongsan Massacre...
Here you can listen to the entire show, recorded and broadcasted by the Yongsan Action Radio.
But also during "Christmas Eve/Day" there has been (in the same area) some music performances by Yongsan (anti-redevelopment) activists and their supporters. Comrade "Hong Gil-dong..." recorded it and his videos you can watch here and here.
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