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Colonial Korea, revealed Architecture and its echoes provide glimpses into 20th-century epoch October 4, 2013 | Popular Photo c. 1925, courtesy of the Hyung Il Pai Collection During colonial times, the Great Southern Gate commonly appeared in Japanese tourist guidebooks as a symbol of old Korea. By Corydon Ireland, Harvard Staff Writer South Korea has the world’s 15th largest economy. The capital, Seoul, is a sprawling high-rise megacity of 10 million. From the air, Seoul’s Gangnam District alone — with its glittering verticals of glass and steel stitched with superhighways — looks like the pinnacle of modernity. Yet South Korea’s architecture is little studied outside its own borders. When scholars ponder the built environment of East Asia, they still do so through the lens of Japan. A recent conference at Harvard’s Graduate School of Design (GSD) provided a corrective gesture. “(Un)Building Colonial Space in Korea, 1910-1945” was the first conference at a North American architecture school for scholars exploring the intersection of Korean architecture and history. The session asked: What can cultural uses of space, landscape, and the built environment teach us about the past? The interdisciplinary gathering explored new ways of seeing architecture, beginning with South Korea, through the lenses of history, literature, archaeology, and other disciplines that touch on spatial dimensions. It was sponsored by the Korea Institute, with help from AsiaGSD, the Harvard Korea Society, and KoreaGSD. “In the context of art and architecture school, you don’t touch on Korea at all,” said conference organizer Melany Sun-Min Park, a candidate for a master’s degree in design studies. “The modern tradition of architecture from the West went to Japan first. So when we study East Asian architecture … we learn Japanese modernism, but it stops there.” Park was educated in New Zealand and Singapore before coming to Harvard, and in every place Japan has been the focus, without much