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Sustainable Conservation of a Difficult Heritage in South Korea: Mapping the Conservation Resources of Sorok-do Island, Hansen’s Disease Site

by
Seong-Gon Jang
1,
Hyun Kyung Lee
2,3 and
Dong-Jin Kang
4,*
1
Onaspace Research Center, Seoul 06781e, Korea
2
Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Science, and Humanity, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB3 9DP, UK
3
Research Institute for Cultural Heritage, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, Seoul 02450, Korea
4
Department of Urban Planning and Engineering, Kyungsung University, Busan 48434, Korea
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Sustainability 2020, 12(17), 6834; https://doi.org/10.3390/su12176834
Received: 30 July 2020 / Accepted: 19 August 2020 / Published: 23 August 2020
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Building Refurbishment and Urban Rehabilitation for Sustainability)
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South Korea’s Sorok-do island bears witness to the 100-year history of the Sorok-do hospital and the village for Hansen’s disease (leprosy) patients. All the facilities of Sorok-do were established by the Japanese imperial authorities, and the collective memories of social isolation and discrimination against Hansen’s disease patients were deeply embedded in this island during the colonial and post-colonial periods. Despite changing perceptions toward the conservation of the island’s history since the 1990s, the island’s deep collective memory remains at risk due to the increasing number of incoming settlers and the shrinking number of Hansen’s disease patients since the opening of the Sorok Bridge in 2009. Taking into consideration the historical lack of critical engagement with difficult heritage conservation in South Korea, this paper introduces a novel approach to sustainable conservation, using as a case study the Sorok-do island. We collected data using archival research, participant observation and semi-structured in-depth interviews, and analyzed them by using a position-mapping method. This paper examines the island’s multifaceted, shifting processes within its history, urban structure, and changing social meanings, and offers a new set of criteria for long-term strategies that will ensure both tangible and intangible types of conservation resources. View Full-Text
Keywords: sustainable conservation; difficult heritage; Sorok-do island; Hansen’s disease site; conservation resources; essential conservation resources sustainable conservation; difficult heritage; Sorok-do island; Hansen’s disease site; conservation resources; essential conservation resources
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Jang, S.-G.; Lee, H.K.; Kang, D.-J. Sustainable Conservation of a Difficult Heritage in South Korea: Mapping the Conservation Resources of Sorok-do Island, Hansen’s Disease Site. Sustainability 2020, 12, 6834. https://doi.org/10.3390/su12176834

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Jang S-G, Lee HK, Kang D-J. Sustainable Conservation of a Difficult Heritage in South Korea: Mapping the Conservation Resources of Sorok-do Island, Hansen’s Disease Site. Sustainability. 2020; 12(17):6834. https://doi.org/10.3390/su12176834

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Jang, Seong-Gon, Hyun K. Lee, and Dong-Jin Kang. 2020. "Sustainable Conservation of a Difficult Heritage in South Korea: Mapping the Conservation Resources of Sorok-do Island, Hansen’s Disease Site" Sustainability 12, no. 17: 6834. https://doi.org/10.3390/su12176834

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