Abstract

This paper argues for the need to adopt a historical point of view in studies on place and placeness. In particular, the need to trace the historicity of place assets through the expansion of the temporal frame and by reconciling the historicity of ‘The Other’ was maintained, and related case studies were presented. In the first case study, by comparing the past and present of the ‘educational migration’ phenomenon at Daejeong, in Jeju Island, the necessity of tracing the historicity of place assests and the need to imbue the perspective of The Other of a specific place with historicity was presented. In the second case study, by tracing the events of foreign exchange and the migration and settlement of foreigners in the Ulsan region, spanning from prehistoric times to the present, it was proposed that the location characteristics this place could be defined as ‘the hub of international exchange’. Through this, the author argues that adopting the lens of a ‘historical perspective’, the study of placeness could be intensified and new types of placeness could be discovered. However, in this paper, rather than using a historical sense of ‘placeness’ as a tool to explain present-day phenomena, it was regarded as a resource that could contribute to the design and implementation of future visions.