... of the Pyungwha Nuri Gil (Spread Peace Trail). The essay further analyzes the key examples from the 2015 Real DMZ Project , the annual art event, started in 2012, on the site of Cheorwon, that serve as alternatives to public art projects for domestic visitors and international travelers. I argue that Hayoun...

... to retrofit a brutal battle site, but Koh is here to say that nothing can ultimately obscure its own process. Adapting Marc Augé s notion of the non- place, in The Place- ness of the DMZ: The Rise of DMZ Tourism and the Real DMZ Project, Koh reveals the process by which the Korean government devised ways...

... to creativity. It is worth briefly describing several films that testify to this direction. Ma Min-ji's Family in the Bubble ( Pŏbŭl p'aemilli , 2017) questions the impact of real estate on the up-and-down history of her family from Korea's economic bubble (from the late 1980s to the mid-1990s) to the IMF...

... zone (DMZ) and their proxy performance as seemingly liberated “North Korean” expressions. In this essay, I examine how these markedly post-­9/11, “axis of evil” writings, which frame North Koreans as subjects in need of rescue from the dark...

... a consumerist utopia into a social project. Korean advertisements, too, reveal local social projects for which collective energies were mobilized. Placing advertisements in a museum ambiguously affects their potential to shatter the homogeneous historical continuum, the key promise of past dream-images...

...- arship on memory has come to the rescue by asserting that trauma and memory as narrated is always already a fabrication of sorts.14 Hence what is at stake in the discussion of ethnic memoirs is not whether it is “real” in the realist sense...

... of the hypermilitarized demilitarized zone (DMZ) on the Korean penin- sula. The impetus for continued investment in the Korean War — national security — has become part of the everyday language and politics of Korea, East Asia, and the United States. The Korean...