Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Introduction - Constructed Places, Contested Spaces Critical Geographies and Korea -- 2 Respatializing Choson's Royal Capital The Politics of Japanese Urban Reforms in Early Colonial Seoul, 1905 - 1919 -- 3 Demolishing Colony The Demolition of the Old Government-General Building of Choson -- 4 Choson Memories Spectatorship, Ideology, andthe Korean Folk Village -- 5 Blame Walt Rostow The Sacrifice of South Korea s Natural Villages -- 6 Auspicious Places in a Mobile Landscape Of Shamans, Shrines, and Dreams -- 7 Kyeryong Mountain as a Contested Place -- 8 Kyongju Namsan Heterotopia, Place Agency, and Historiographic Leverage -- 9 The Seoul Train Station Square and Homeless Shelters Thoughts on Geographical History Regarding Welfare Citizenship -- 10 Cyberspace and a Space for Gays in South Korea -- 11 Marginality, Transgression, and Transnational Identity Negotiations in Korea's Kijich'on -- Works Cited -- Contributors -- Index.