Korea Journal
- P-ISSN0023-3900
- E-ISSN2733-9343
- A&HCI, SCOPUS, KCI
Seoul’s Bando Hotel: A Postwar Space of Americanism and Cold War Internationalism
Abstract
The hovering Bando Hotel in central Seoul, built by a Japanese industrial mogul in 1938, enjoyed notoriety as a key landmark in the capital cityscape for thirtysome years. The Bando also occupied political and cultural centerstage, visually signifying Japan’s colonial modernity during its foundational years, followed by representing a political nerve center for both the American military occupation (1945–1948) in southern Korea and the postwar Syngman Rhee regime throughout the 1950s. This study examines the Bando Hotel as an ensconced space of political power and Cold War internationalism in Seoul, under Rhee’s postwar translation of the hotel from its Japanese foundation into Americanism from 1954 to 1960. Reflecting Rhee’s desires to be intimately integrated into the Americanled Free Asia, the Bando Hotel embodied American modernity and Cold War cosmopolitanism. This spatial and symbolic transformation, however, was more superficial than actual, much like Rhee’s precarious and fraught support from the United States; despite his attempt to control and project this exclusive space of power and Americanism, the emblematic significance of this spatial facade also diffused following Rhee’s fall from power. The spatial history of the Bando encapsulated the interpenetrating desires and failures of his regime.
- keywords
- Bando Hotel, 1950s Seoul, postwar space, landscape of power, Cold War modernity, Americanism, Syngman Rhee
참고문헌
A Memorandum from C. T. Wood to C. B. Brownson, Reconstruction of the Peninsula Hotel, February 27, 1954.
Hwan Payments in Korea and at the Bando Hotel from Henry Costanzo (embassy), 1955.
Aspects of Korea’s Inflation: A Speech by Economic Director Warne before the Seoul Rotary Club, Bando Hotel, March 13, 1957.
Letter from H. E. Renfro to All Friends of the Korean Olympic Team: September 29, 1956, Bando Hotel Welcome Reception for the Korean Olympic Team.
Address by William E. Warne, UNC Economic Coordinator for Korea at the Third Meeting of the International-legal Society of Korea at the Bando Hotel, Korea, October 31, 1957.
Memorandum from Pratt to R. Parker: Agreement on Renting Bando Hotel Rooms, December 27, 1957.
Public Information Office, Photo, “Bando hotel jeongyeong” (Bando Hotel full view), 1957.
Public Information Office, Photo, “Yi Seungman daetongnyeong bando hotel mit gukje hotel sichal 7” (President Syngman Rhee inspects the Bando Hotel and International Hotel 7), 1960.
Letter from the President, January 7, 1954.
Office of the President, January 14, 1954.
Letter from the President, January 28, 1954.
Architects for the Bando Hotel, February 6, 1954.
Letter from the President, March 11, 1954.
Office of the President, April 8, 1954.
Office of the President, July 23, 1954.
Office of the President, April 22, 1955.
Weekly Report, March 30, 1956.
Bando Hotel Procurement Expenses List from the Consulate General, March 31, 1956.
Letter to the President, July 27, 1956.
Weekly Report, August 10, 1956.
Letter from the President, August 16, 1956.
Dong-A Ilbo
JoongAng Ilbo
JoongAng Sisa magazine
Kyunghyang Shinmun
Lady Kyunghyang
Pacific Stars and Stripes
Cazes, Georges. 2007. “Gyeollon-eul daesinhayeo: Dosi-ui chohohwa gogeup hoteleun gyeolko dansunhaji aneun dosijeok daesangida” (In Lieu of Conclusion:Luxury City Hotels are Never Simple Urban Objects). In Dosi-ui chang, gogeup hotel (The Grand Hotels in Asia), edited by Valérie Gelézeau et al., translated by Ji-Yun Yang, 295–299. Seoul: Humanitas. Originally published as Les Grands Hôtels en Asie. Modernité, dynamiques urbaines et sociabilité (Paris: Publications de la Sorbonne, 2003).
Choi, Minhyun. 2016. “Geun, hyeondae gukgajudo hotel-ui geonseol-gwa jabonjuui yuip-e ttareun byeonhwa” (The State-Led Construction and the Change in Accordance with the Influx of Capitalism of the Hotel in Modern Times). Master’s thesis, Seoul National University.
Denfeld, D. Colt. 1997. American Military Camps in the Republic of Korea, 1866–1996. Anchorage: Pacific Bases Research.
Gandhi, Leela. 1998. Postcolonial Theory: A Critical Introduction. London: Routledge.
Gelézeau, Valérie. 2007. “Hohwaroum-ui gijun-i dosi-reul mandeul ttae: Seoul-ui geonseol-gwa gogeup hotel” (When Luxury Standards Make a City:Construction of Seoul and Luxury Hotels). In Dosi-ui chang, gogeup hotel (The Grand Hotels in Asia), edited by Valérie Gelézeau et al., translated by Ji-yun Yang, 74–101. Seoul, Humanitas. Originally published as Les Grands Hôtels en Asie. Modernité, dynamiques urbaines et sociabilité (Paris: Publications de la Sorbonne, 2003).
Gelézeau, Valérie, et al., eds. 2007. “Peurangseueopan seomun” (Introduction to the French Edition). In Dosi-ui chang, Gogeup Hotel (The Grand Hotels in Asia), edited by Valérie Gelézeau, et al., translated by Ji-yun Yang, 15–24. Seoul: Humanitas. Originally published as Les Grands Hôtels en Asie. Modernité, dynamiques urbaines et sociabilité (Paris: Publications de la Sorbonne, 2003).
Gillem, Mark. 2007. America Town: Building the Outposts of Empire. Minneapolis:University of Minnesota Press.
Hwang, Taejin. 2013. “An Indispensable Edge: American Military Camptowns in Postwar Korea.” In Mobile Subjects: Boundaries and Identities in the Modern Korean Diaspora, edited by Wen-hsin Yeh, 88–122. Berkeley: Institute of East Asian Studies, University of California.
Hwang, Taejin. 2018. “Militarized Landscapes of Yongsan: From Japanese Imperial to Little Americas in Early Cold War Korea.” Korea Journal 58.1: 121–149.
Kim, Alice S. 2013. “Airport Modern: The Space between International Departures and Arrivals in Modern Korean National Imaginings.” PhD diss., University of California, Berkeley.
Kim, Baek-yeong. 2009. Jibae-wa gonggan: Singminji dosi gyeongseong-gwa jeguk ilbon (Governance and Space: The Colonial City of Gyeongseong and Imperial Japan). Seoul: Munhak-gwa jiseongsa.
Klein, Christina. 2020. Cold War Cosmopolitanism: Period Style in 1950s Korean Cinema. Oakland: University of California Press.
Lie, John. 1998. Han Unbound: The Political Economy of South Korea. Redwood City, CA: Stanford University Press.
Merrifield, Andrew. 2006. Henri Lefebvre: A Critical Introduction. London:Routledge.
Park, Tae-Gyun. 2006. Ubang-gwa jeguk, hanmi gwangye-ui du sinhwa: 8.15-eseo 5.18 kkaji (An Ally and Empire: Two Myths of South Korea-United States Relations, 1945–1980). Paju: Changbi.
Park, Tae-Gyun. 2007. Wonhyeong-gwa byeonyong: Hanguk gyeongje-gaebal gyehoek-ui giwon (Archetype and Metamorphosis: The Origins of Korea’s Economic Development Plan). Seoul: Seoul National University Press.
Son, Jeong-mok. 2005. Hanguk dosi 60-nyeon-ui iyagi 1 (Sixty-Year Story of Korean Cities 1). Paju: Hanul.
Tomita, Shoji. 2008. Hotel—Geundae munmyeong-ui sangjing (Hotel—Symbol of Modern Civilization). Translated by Jae-yeon Yu. Seoul: Nonhyung. Originally published as Hotel to Nihonkindai (Tokyo: Seikyusha, 2003).
Yi, Jin-hyeon. 2018a. “Seoul-ui hotel iyagi (1): [Geunhyeondae dongasia dosi]Oegugin wihan sukso-eseo sangeop hotel-ui deungjangkkaji” (Seoul’s Seoul Story 1: Modern East Asian Cities, from Foreign Accommodations to Commercial Hotels). Redian, January 5. http://www.redian.org/archive/117914 (accessed November 12, 2021).
Yi, Jin-hyeon. 2018b. “Yongmang-ui gonggan seukiiraunji, Bando hotel: Seoul-ui hotel iyagi (2)” (Space of Desire, Bando Hotel Sky Lounge: Seoul’s Hotel Story 2). Redian, September 4. http://www/redian.org/archive/124933 (accessed March 1, 2020).
Yoon, Sang-in. 2012. “Hotel-gwa jegukjuui—uri an-ui bando hotel deul-e daehae”(Hotels and Imperialism—About the Bando Hotels Within Us). Ilbon bipyeong (Korean Journal of Japanese Studies) 6: 196–215.
Zukin, Sharon. 1991. Landscapes of Power: From Detroit to Disney World. Oakland:University of California Press.
- 다운로드 수
- 조회수
- 0KCI 피인용수
- 0WOS 피인용수