ABSTRACT
What function does a border region have besides enforcing a division? Does it serve as an active zone of something undetermined in which something new is to be negotiated? And are these spaces of activity and trade not always dependent on the current political situation? In times of globalization, the borderlines expand to become active intermediate space, and the controlled border area constantly stretches farther, beyond the actual border zones, into adjacent countries. This phenomenon of international borders can be deduced in concentrated form from the demilitarized zone (DMZ) between South and North Korea.
