Sorokdo as a combined dark tourism site of leprosy and colonized past

Choung, Eun-Hye; Choi, Suh‐hee

doi:10.1080/10941665.2020.1767666

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“…Korean sociologist, Park (2010), also examined the impact of dramatic changes in urban structure on the lives of Hansen's disease patients in Sorok-do [12]. Along with the work of active medical historians on the colonial system and imperial modernism related to Hansen's disease patients [13,14], the latest research by Choung and Choi (2020) shows their perspective on Sorok-do as a controversial dark tourism site featuring the stories of Hansen's disease sufferers and the Japanese colonial past [15]. Such recent academic efforts have helped and broadened the understanding of the historical, medical, and social conditions on Sorok-do.…”

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Sustainable Conservation of a Difficult Heritage in South Korea: Mapping the Conservation Resources of Sorok-do Island, Hansen’s Disease Site

Jang¹,

Lee

Kang

2020

Sustainability

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South Korea’s Sorok-do island bears witness to the 100-year history of the Sorok-do hospital and the village for Hansen’s disease (leprosy) patients. All the facilities of Sorok-do were established by the Japanese imperial authorities, and the collective memories of social isolation and discrimination against Hansen’s disease patients were deeply embedded in this island during the colonial and post-colonial periods. Despite changing perceptions toward the conservation of the island’s history since the 1990s, the island’s deep collective memory remains at risk due to the increasing number of incoming settlers and the shrinking number of Hansen’s disease patients since the opening of the Sorok Bridge in 2009. Taking into consideration the historical lack of critical engagement with difficult heritage conservation in South Korea, this paper introduces a novel approach to sustainable conservation, using as a case study the Sorok-do island. We collected data using archival research, participant observation and semi-structured in-depth interviews, and analyzed them by using a position-mapping method. This paper examines the island’s multifaceted, shifting processes within its history, urban structure, and changing social meanings, and offers a new set of criteria for long-term strategies that will ensure both tangible and intangible types of conservation resources.

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Sustainable Conservation of a Difficult Heritage in South Korea: Mapping the Conservation Resources of Sorok-do Island, Hansen’s Disease Site

Jang¹,

Lee

Kang

2020

Sustainability

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“…While the adaptive reuse of heritage has been discussed (Misirlisoy and Gunce, 2016;Dewi, 2017;Sowi nska-Heim, 2020) alongside the reuse of buildings of control and reform (Kearns et al, 2010;Joseph et al, 2013;Saccaggi and Delport, 2015;Choung and Choi, 2020;Karami, 2022), heritage studies under the framework of heterotopia remain scarce, and few discussions on the heterotopic nature of heritage refer to buildings with difficult pasts. Therefore, this research attempts to contribute to the study of heterotopia in heritage, particularly focusing on heritage sites with difficult pasts.…”

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A heterotopic reading of heritage: The Village of Our Lady in Ka Ho, Macau

2024

Asia Pacific Viewpoint

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Postcolonial Macau is keen to celebrate its colonial legacy to preserve its cultural distinctiveness. This study explores the reordering of a Portuguese colonial site, the Village of Our Lady in Ka Ho, into an architectural heritage in the broader postcolonial context. Employing the Foucauldian concept of ‘other spaces’, specifically ‘utopia’ and ‘heterotopia’, the study argues for the heterotopic nature of heritage. It identifies the discourses and material representations of heritage, their construction and their mirroring of mainstream social ideals. Heritage as heterotopia is a conceptual entity that informs and is realised with material objects. The discourse takes heritage spaces as mediums for performances through symbolic loading on material objects to demonstrate the space's otherness. In addition, colonial nostalgia emerges as a dominant narrative in shaping urban identity. The primary proposition of this research is that heritage is made through othering, and the otherness of heritage is presented through performing. Heritage‐making transforms the site from a ‘heterotopia of deviation’ to a ‘heterotopia of performance’, which reveals the societal transition from early modernity that advocates for scientific knowledge to postmodernity that embraces neoliberalism, and then to the arriving era of post‐postmodernity based on performatism.

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From colonial company housing to dark tourism site: the complex legacy of the Mitsubishi Workers’ Housing in Samneung

Choung,

Yoon

2024

Asia Pacific Journal of Tourism Research

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Sorokdo as a combined dark tourism site of leprosy and colonized past

Cited by 4 publications

References 34 publications

Sustainable Conservation of a Difficult Heritage in South Korea: Mapping the Conservation Resources of Sorok-do Island, Hansen’s Disease Site

Sustainable Conservation of a Difficult Heritage in South Korea: Mapping the Conservation Resources of Sorok-do Island, Hansen’s Disease Site

A heterotopic reading of heritage: The Village of Our Lady in Ka Ho, Macau

From colonial company housing to dark tourism site: the complex legacy of the Mitsubishi Workers’ Housing in Samneung

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