Heritage, Memory, and Punishment by Shu-Mei Huang Hyun-Kyung Lee

Author:Shu-Mei Huang, Hyun-Kyung Lee [Shu-Mei Huang, Hyun-Kyung Lee]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Social Science, General, Sociology, Regional Studies
ISBN: 9781351810739
Google: G0uxDwAAQBAJ
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Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2019-09-23T00:00:00+00:00

Despite this aggressive expansion, Seodaemun Prison continued to suffer from overcrowding issues throughout the entire colonial period. Considering that 87.73 percent of inmates were “political offenders,” meaning participants in the Korean Independence Movement, this overcrowding is closely related to the consistently increasing number of Korean independence activists throughout the period (Park, 2016a, p. 94). Seodaemun Prison had indeed been designed specifically to control a large number of Korean independence activists, having 242 solitary confinement cells to separate political prisoners from ordinary criminals (Lee, 2016; Park, 2015). It also had the largest number of female cellblocks in Korea, intended to hold female independence activists (see Park, 2014). These prisoners had diverse political leanings and strategies, as socialists, communists, and nationalists. Seodaemun Prison can be seen as a painful and traumatic container, holding memories of the restraining and crushing of the resistance, that imprinted fear and violence more broadly. Meanwhile, Seodaemun Prison itself was the repository of the abundant stories of the Korean Independence Movement, not limited by either gender or ideology.

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