Rethinking Authenticity in Gentrification Aesthetics

Ji, Myung In

doi:10.21189/jkugs.24.2.2

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“…As such, authenticity and commerciality share a sensitive relationship. The desire for authenticity generates the aesthetics of anti-gentrification, but the aesthetics of anti-gentrification may operate an exclusive posture [19] or, as Sirois claimed, may not recognize that the desires and actions are part of a neoliberal world economy [18]. Therefore, it is necessary to examine in detail the ambivalent contradictions surrounding authenticity from various aspects.…”

Section: Theoretical Review: Gentrification Authenticity and Commerci...mentioning

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“…In the initial period of gentrification, changes in streets and lots within Yeonnam-dong were not very prominent [1]. According to the distribution of 224 creative workforcerelated industries and small-capital stores surveyed by Park E. S. in 2013, there were cafés (58), restaurants (16), pubs (13), small-cap stores and offices (10), ateliers and studios (16), workshops (16), design offices (19), publishing houses (60), and community and cultural complexes (eight). Thus, the offices, workshops, cafés, and restaurants were found to coexist.…”

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Implications of Renovated Buildings in Yeonnam-Dong, Seoul, an Area under Commercial Gentrification

Lee

2023

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We aimed to identify the characteristics of the changes in the buildings and alleyways in Yeonnam-dong, Seoul, where low-rise, residential buildings are being renovated or repurposed into commercial buildings, as well as to investigate their renovations, repurposes, and sociocultural implications. Thus, we surveyed and classified 149 renovated buildings, investigated the perceptions and ambiance of the area and buildings using a trade area analysis and interviews with visitors and store owners, and uncovered the importance of renovation. Since the early gentrification, a trend of performing renovations that retained the original form of the building from the initial renovation stage was seen; this created an ambiance of nostalgia, naturalness, and authenticity, along with the urban conditions of low-rise, residential buildings in Yeonnam-dong, a representative undeveloped area. These renovated buildings reflect the social status, taste, and practice of gentrifiers, and they reveal a hybridization of the past and present, Korean circumstances and exotic cultures, and residential and commercial buildings. As commercialization progressed, renovated buildings vastly differing from the original and displaying active commercial characteristics were seen. Our findings imply that the area’s early ambiance, which had an air of “distinctiveness”, has lost its personality and begun to generalize. Thus, numerous gentrifiers have been replaced and several aspects of renovation have changed that the visitors are aware of.

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Section: Theoretical Review: Gentrification Authenticity and Commerci...mentioning

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Implications of Renovated Buildings in Yeonnam-Dong, Seoul, an Area under Commercial Gentrification

Lee

2023

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Implications of Renovated Buildings in Yeonnam-Dong, Seoul, an Area under Commercial Gentrification

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