This study aims at investigating the culture at Hongdae Area which has manifested self-generated and unique culture in order to explore how the study on city space and cultural studies could be integrated. Accordingly, it focuses at how the culture at...
This study aims at investigating the culture at Hongdae Area which has manifested self-generated and unique culture in order to explore how the study on city space and cultural studies could be integrated. Accordingly, it focuses at how the culture at Hongdae Area has changed since the late half of 1990s, and inquires into what changes it has experienced ultimately in terms of quality through these changes. Also, it seeks for a method to develop these circumstances by discussing its fundamental reasons overall.
Though the culture at Hongdae Area has occupied an important place by contributing to rather productive diversity of culture in consumption-oriented culture focusing uniform mass production which has been prevalent in South Korean society until now, just few studies on the culture at Hongdae Area have been conducted. Moreover, the previous studies were prone to describe cultural phenomena and repeatedly produce discourses, so that concrete audience studies based on diversity have rarely carried out in reality. So this study was launched on the basis of the recognition that this phenomenon has appeared in academic discourse as well as did appear in media discourse in a similar way, in order to overcome these limitations.
To this end, it reviews the existing literatures to consider the change of culture first, thereby understanding the current of changes through field works. But it is judged to be somewhat insufficient in grasping all the changes for years with this method only, so this study tried to grasp how the culture at Hongdae Area has changed through in-depth interviews with the long time residents at the area or the persons concerned in the culture at Hongdae area.