ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the concepts covered in the preceding chapters of this book. The book reviews the historical dynamics of the political, socio-economic situations and their impact on the changing environment of the Nanjido area. It investigates how Seoul City or South Korea’s national/municipal authority systematically categorised all things and human beings into the inappropriate and the appropriate. The book examines Nanjido’s inhabited landfill where over 4,000 people resided and worked as garbage collectors, a unique case in South Korea’s history. It analyses detoxification and aestheticisation, key aspects of the landfill regeneration construction, revealing that regeneration relies on making the material waste and historical times invisible. The book looks into the relationship between the sense of unease and the place in an attempt to identify Nanjido Post-Landfill Park as a landfill-turned-park with the closed landfill mounds remaining under the park.
