13th International DOCOMOMO Conference Seoul

摘要

In the conference title, Expansion and Conflict, Docomomo Korea has reflected the Korean sensibility of a country torn between the politically and culturally expansionist ambitions of indomitable neighbours, and attacked by the expansion of Western culture into North Asia. Like the Meiji Restoration in Japan, the Korean Emperor (installed when Korea broke away from the suzerainty of China) tried to modernise Korea, but this was quickly terminated when Japan annexed Korea as a colony in 1910. From then on, modernisation in Korea was through the agency of the Japanese overlords.