:<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\nAccording to another North Korean defector, an astounding 70-80 percent of North Koreans are secretly tuning into South Korean popular culture.<\/span><\/p>\n“Citizens are living in two realities \u2013 the official North Korean state-sanctioned reality, and the more capitalistic reality \u2013 and they are determined to continue to learn about the world outside North Korea.”<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n\n- Dr. Jieun Baek (<\/span>candidate in Public Policy at the University of Oxford. \u00a0Previously, she was a research fellow at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at \u00a0Harvard University)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
By reading and understanding the Juche ideology, the Confucian-socialist construct that is the foundation of the whole country, founded by the great eternal leader Kim-il sung, gives us the \u2018sense\u2019 of what North Koreans are raised to believe, the great ideas of the past are conflicting with the things North Koreans see now, to render these conflicts visible, as a reminder of an alternate reality, by experimenting with material, view, and types of physical boundaries, I want to create a piece of Architecture that provokes thoughts and ideas that challenge\u00a0the current ideologies. <\/span><\/p>\nFor instance, religious belief in North Korea is technically free, and does not go against the Juche ideology, however, the Christian belief certainly doesn\u2019t agree with the godly status of the Kim family. South Korean Popular Culture, what does this have to play a role in Architecture, since the culture is known to have already disseminated throughout the state. How does one intend to mix the South Korean visitors to the North Korean city? Would a question of such circulatory systems answer questions to the greater planning of the city? Does the design inform the narrative of one’s North\/South Korean and begin to reveal the disparities of the two ideals?<\/span><\/p>\nThesis should be an ongoing investigation, and as of now, I see an opportunity for a new development for South Korean tourism in the city of Kaesong, and this duality must be amplified in order for a post-modern movement to begin in the city of Kaesong.<\/span><\/p>\nAnd finally, I intend to conduct a site visit at the beginning of January, where I construct a new understanding of place, in the dimension that is beyond the computer screen of online libraries and information. By planning in the coming two months, of things to investigate, questions to ask, and different areas of a possible site in relation to my prescribed tour of the country.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Post-Modernist North Korea (Draft Proposal) WHY? On the 38th parallel north, a circle of latitude that is 38 degrees north of the equator, lies the division between the two koreas. A Military Demarcation Line, 250 km long and 4 km<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":94,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[28],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thesis.arch.hku.hk\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2343"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/thesis.arch.hku.hk\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/thesis.arch.hku.hk\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thesis.arch.hku.hk\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/94"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thesis.arch.hku.hk\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2343"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/thesis.arch.hku.hk\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2343\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2349,"href":"http:\/\/thesis.arch.hku.hk\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2343\/revisions\/2349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thesis.arch.hku.hk\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thesis.arch.hku.hk\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thesis.arch.hku.hk\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}