This study was conducted in the 1980s and 1990s of Daecheon Diary written from 1954 to 2000s. Daecheon Diary is a diary written by Yoon Hee-soo of Daecheon Village, Hwamyeong-dong, Buk-gu, Busan. He was born in Daecheon village and lived in village fo ...
This study was conducted in the 1980s and 1990s of Daecheon Diary written from 1954 to 2000s. Daecheon Diary is a diary written by Yoon Hee-soo of Daecheon Village, Hwamyeong-dong, Buk-gu, Busan. He was born in Daecheon village and lived in village for a lifetime.
Daecheon Village is a residential area that has lived for generations since Papyeong Yoon entered the village in the middle of the 17th century. Rural modernization projects from the 1950s to the 1960s and Saemaul Undong since the late 1960s have changed the landscape of villages. The village was incorporated in Busan in 1965, but was located outside the city, so it had a typical rural village landscape. However the village has undergone great changes because of urban infrastructure since the mid-1970s and large apartment complexes since the 1980s.
The purpose of this study is to examine the relationship between 'urban space' and 'individual everyday life' by looking at the aspect of individual everyday life being reconstructed according to the situation, social context, and space change based on Yoon Hee-soo’s Daecheon Diary.
First, attention was paid to changes in the space in which individuals live and work. As space changes into urban, farmland has been diversified. In the village, water purification plants, power plants, and apartment complexes were built, and bus garages and new roads were expanded as the inflow increased. As farmland gradually shrunk, the number of farms and agriculture decreased, and the rural landscape changed. Since most of the village members were engaged in agriculture, the decline in farming resulted in a weakening of the relationship and landscape changes in same-surname villages.
Then, this study examined the individual's everyday life into economic and non-economic activities. Economic activity is divided into agriculture and commerce. In the case of agriculture, farmland was reduced due to space change, and farmland operation and crop change were caused by tenancy or lease. Choosing commerce instead of reduced agriculture was closely related to the urbanization of Daecheon village and the amusement park of Daecheoncheon. Advances in urbanization have formed a new leisure culture. In the 1970s, the number of visitors to Daecheoncheon began to gradually increase, and in the 1980s, commercial facilities targeting the visitors were established in the villages. Individuals who farmed in Daecheon village came together with agriculture and commerce as a result of declining farmland and urbanization.
Of note in non-economic activities were village and clan activities. Yoon Hee-soo has worked for the village community since his thirties. In the 1980s, he worked as a village maintainer, leader and manager. In the Daecheon village where Papyeong Yoon family resides, clan was another important community with the village. In particular, Yoon Hee-soo was an important figure in property management and genealogy production. As the space changed, he carried out new tasks in the village and clan community, such as land acceptance, relationship with apartment residents, water management, reconstruction of buildings, and new building construction.
Finally, Yoon Hee-soo organized everyday life with taking care of grandchildren, living with senior citizens, visiting relatives and sightseeing. In particular, he took advantage of leisure time in various communities of the village and clan, including the social community, the village improvement village, farming association, water management committee, and village elder society. In the 1990s, there were overseas tourism as well as domestic tourism. This was one side of the cultural phenomena arising from the interlocking of globalization strategies since the 1980s, based on the surplus of economic growth in the 1970s. Although the reason for sightseeing was because of age and change of living according to the change of space, tourism has also been linked with the village and clan community. This study reaffirmed that the everyday life of the individual cannot be independent of the space and community surrounding the individual.