Publicomos

Notice (permalien)

Réf.

41492

Type

conference item

Titre

Split spirit of place, Yanghwajin

Langues

English

Auteurs

Kwon, Yong-chan / Jeon, Bong-hee

Date

2008

Pages

11 p.

Titre de conférence

16th ICOMOS General Assembly and International Symposium: ‘Finding the spirit of place – between the tangible and the intangible’

Lieu de conférence

Québec, Canada

Date de conférence

29 sept – 4 oct 2008

Mots-clés

spirit of place / historic sites / conservation of historic sites / cemeteries / memorials / intangible cultural heritage

Pays mentionnés

Korea, Republic of

Monuments et sites

Yanghwajin, Republic of Korea

Résumé en anglais

In 1866, a massacre of Catholics happened at Yanghwajin which was a port and a military post. More than a hundred of Catholics were killed at the top of a hill that waslater named ‘Jeoldusan’, which literally means ‘a decapitating hill’. Soon after, Jeoldusan became a holy site for Catholics and the name was substituted from ‘Yanghwajin’. A missionary cemetery was built in 1886 near Jeoldusan and a shrine and museum was built on Jeoldusan in 1967, which earned an architectural reputation. In the course of the rapid development of Seoul in 1970-80`s, Jeoldusan became an important traffic spot with expressways and subways. By reviewing documents and interviewing the visitors and passers-by, it is revealed that there are big differences in recognition of this place among several groups of people. They showed a split understanding on the place according to their religions and knowledge of the history of this place.

Ressource intégrale

yes

Document joint

77-UTf8-152.pdf

Licence

Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (BY-NC-ND)