Contents

1. Title Page
2. Copyright
3. Dedication
4. Preface
5. CHAPTER 1
   INTRODUCTION:  CONTESTED MEMORY
6. Korea and historiography
7. Sites, memory, identity
8. Seoul
9. Seoul and new media
10. CHAPTER 2
    ERASURE AND REINVENTION: KOREA TO 1945
11. Seoul and Korea before colonization
12. Colonization
13. Erasure or radical break?
14. The problem of historiography
15. CHAPTER 3
    RE-IMAG(IN)ING THE NATION: SEOUL AND PARK CHUNG-HEE
16. Park Chung-hee
17. Park and the city
18. Re-imag(in)ing the city
19. The city and Christianity
20. CHAPTER 4
    ERASURE AS HERITAGE: READING SEOUL
21. Dialectical image, montage, collage
22. Seoul as collage
23. Seoul as lines
24. Seoul as assemblage and the place of memory
25. viii
26. CHAPTER 5
    NEW CULTURE: SEOUL IN THE KOREAN WAVE
27. Media and their contents
28. The Korean Wave
29. The Korean Wave as cultural colonization
30. Seoul as assemblage revisited
31. CHAPTER 6
    IMAGINING THE NATION: REINVENTING AND ITS CONDITIONS OF POSSIBILITY
32. Conditions of possibility
33. The postnation and the (other) nation
34. The idea of “The end of history”
35. Seoul at the end of history
36. Appendix
37. Glossary
38. References
39. Index
40. About the Author