ABSTRACT
The underdeveloped environmental conditions provided Nanjido with ambivalent characteristics: it was both a zone under natural or artificial threat and an untouched idyllic green site. In fact, despite the many practical inconveniences of agrarian life of that time, habitants and visitors alike describe this Nanjido of the past as ideally preserved nature of bucolic scenery ideal for leisurely outings. The idealised imaginary of nature in Nanjido of the past resurged upon the site’s transformation from the Landfill into Nanjido Post-Landfill Park in 2002, when Seoul City attempted to revive the green environment of Nanjido’s pre-landfill period. During the postcolonial and post-war years in the late 1940s and 1950s, South Korea experienced serious political confusion; throughout the citizens’ struggle for a democratic government, a newly established administration was not systematic enough to fight against corruption, nor firm enough to be independent, so it relied on the United States.
