| -ak |
|
suffix for mountain (also -san) |
| ARU |
|
Architecture Research Unit |
| bang |
|
small room for karaoke, watching DVDs, etc.; see also norae bang |
| chaebol |
|
family trust, presiding over a conglomerate or group |
| Changdeokgung |
|
palace; part of the East Palace complex |
| Changgyeonggung |
|
palace; part of the East Palace complex |
| Cheondogyo |
|
Religion of the Heavenly Way, the religious formulation of Donghak |
| Cheonggyecheon |
|
stream/rehabilitation project in downtown Seoul |
| Chongmyo |
|
Chosun dynasty ancestral shrine |
| COEX |
|
COnvention centers, EXhibition halls |
| CRC |
|
corporate-restructuring company |
| Deoksugung |
|
Seoul palace of Daehan Empire after Gyeongbokgung was abandoned |
| DMZ |
|
Demilitarized Zone |
| Donghak |
|
Eastern Learning (vis-à-vis Western Learning, Catholicism) |
| DPRK |
|
Democratic People’s Republic of (North) Korea |
| Gwanghwamun |
|
ceremonial gate to Gyeongbokgung Palace |
| Gyeongbokgung |
|
principal Seoul palace, currently rebuilt, axially located |
| Gyeongun |
|
palace, also termed Deoksugung |
| han-gul |
|
Korean alphabet |
| hanok |
|
traditional Korean house form |
| HCIP |
|
Heavy Chemical Industrialization Plan |
| ICT |
|
information and communication technology |
| Ilchinhoe |
|
Advance in Unity Society |
| IMF |
|
International Monetary Fund |
| JGB |
|
Jae-Gae-Bal, slum/substandard housing redevelopment program |
| JGC |
|
Jae-Gun-Chuk, private-sector residential renewal program |
| Joseonsa |
|
Pyeonsuhoe Korean History Compilation Committee |
| juche |
|
philosophy of Syngman Rhee regime 294 |
| KAPF |
|
Korean Artists Proletarian Federation |
| KCPRA |
|
Keijo City Planning Research Association |
| Keijo |
|
Japanese colonial-era name for Seoul |
| KPF |
|
Kohn Pedersen Fox architects |
| lieu de mémoire |
|
realm or site of memory (Nora) |
| Meiji |
|
Enlightened Rule (applied to Japanese imperial restoration) |
| milieu de mémoire |
|
environment of memory (Nora) |
| minjung |
|
the common people |
| MPVA |
|
Ministry of Patriots and Veterans Affairs |
| Naisen Ittai |
|
ideology of “Japan and Korea are one” |
| norae bang |
|
song (karaoke) box |
| OECD |
|
Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development |
| ondol |
|
traditional Korean heated floor system |
| p’ansori |
|
ancient song drama |
| Posco |
|
Pohang Iron and Steel Company |
| pungsu |
|
cosmic energy of Korean geomancy |
| -san |
|
suffix for mountain |
| Seohojeongsa |
|
traditional Korean house element installed in Paju Book City |
| SEZ |
|
Special Economic Zone |
| SFAC |
|
Seoul Foundation for Arts and Culture |
| silhak |
|
practical learning movement (seventeenth and eighteenth centuries) |
| toyoshi |
|
Orientalist (Japanese) historiography tradition |
| undongkwon |
|
student activists |
| yangban |
|
“two branches” gentry class of office-bearing aristocrats |
| yongyeok |
|
people hired by government to destroy illegal premises, typically of poor occupants |
| Yusin |
|
Restoration, Rejuvenation (title of Park Chung-hee constitution) |
| zaibatsu |
|
Japanese conglomerate, initially family based |