The 40th anniversary of the Iri Station explosion in 2017 has rekindled civic interest in the Iri Station explosion. Above all, it was a fresh reminder that the number and name of the victims of the blast were unclear over the course of 40 years, and ...
The 40th anniversary of the Iri Station explosion in 2017 has rekindled civic interest in the Iri Station explosion. Above all, it was a fresh reminder that the number and name of the victims of the blast were unclear over the course of 40 years, and that as the accident took place at the end of the Yushin regime, there was no attempt to clean up the explosion from the perspective of Iksan City and Iksan citizens.
Forty-one years later, the explosion at Iri Station left a deep scar on Iksan citizens, but the political and social implications of the incident and its impact on the community are reaching today without being investigated or studied from various perspectives. Above all, the rumors surrounding the explosion at Iri Station have not been completely resolved from the moment of the accident until now 41 years later. Above all, the exact number of deaths among Iri citizens at the time of the accident has yet to be determined.
In addition, despite the fact that the Saei-ri construction project, which began in earnest after the explosion at Iri Station, was an important urban plan that determined Iksan's centennial period, Iksan citizens were almost excluded from the decision and construction process. After the accident, the restoration process was a complete re-establishment of the basic urban planning of Iksan Old Town today, and decided on the urban character of Iksan that continues to this day. Nevertheless, its meaning and process are not clearly clear compared to the importance of the issue.
As such, the Iri Station explosion and Iksan's modern history have numerous connections that can never be separated. There is little that is not related to the Iri Station explosion now in the memory of Iksan's urban composition and streets, major buildings and places, and people's places.
Nevertheless, we do not have a deep understanding of the Iri Station explosion. Iksan citizens are also potentially passive in taking a deep look at the Iri Station explosion and sympathizing with the wounds. The Iri Station explosion is an unusual event in which the citizens of Iksan have more memories of the city than of people and memorials. Extremely unusual cases are recorded in cities, in North Jeolla Province, rather than in people, and in cities rather than in Iri city, and in cities, plans for cities are more important than the destruction of cities. In this regard, Iksan citizens' perception of the explosion at Iri Station is not fair in some respects.
This study will contribute to organizing the meaning of Iri Station explosion accident by newly illuminating it from the perspective of Iksan City and citizens. Above all, I would like to focus on finding the victims and related parties of the Iri Station explosion and collecting the oral history and related data that reconstructing the case at that time. What matters is the post-accident process rather than the occurrence and cause of an accident. We should now check if there was any unjust sacrifice that no one remembered. It also needs to revive the stories of the dead.