Posted at : 2009-09-17
OCU-URP
Seoul Sub-center Opening Commemorative Symposium:
“Poverty
and Renewal”
1. Date and Place
§Symposium and Reception
• Friday, September 18, 2009 10:00 AM to 5:00 PM
• Franciscan Education Center, 2nd
floor Large Auditorium (in Seoul, seating capacity of 110)
• Reception from 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM, near
the meeting hall, advance reservations.
§Field Trip
• Saturday, September 19, 2009 10:00 AM to 5:00 PM
• Locations within Seoul City and visits to
institutions
2. Symposium Content
§Report to the public on the start of activities at Osaka City
University’s Urban Research Plaza Seoul Sub-center
§Sharing of understanding and practical experience related to urban
poverty and revitalization in South Korea and Japan
§Actual field visits to places dealt with in the symposium, and
provision of a venue for the sharing of experience among the related
individuals
§Promotion of exchanges between Japanese and Korean researchers and
field workers through the intermediary of Osaka City University’s Urban
Research Plaza Seoul Sub-center
3. Symposium Schedule
I. Theme: Poverty and Renewal (Working Title)
II. Speakers and Topics
Session
1 and 2 Moderator: Mizuuchi Toshio (OCU-URP)
Session
3 and 4 and General Discussion Moderator: Kim Won-bae (the Korea Research Institute for Human Settlements (KRIHS))
Time |
|
Speaker and Topic |
09:30 – 10:00 |
Check-in |
|
10:00 – 10:30 |
Greetings |
•Ha, Seong-Kyu •Sasaki Masayuki (Director, OCU Urban Research Plaza) |
10:30 – 11:30 |
Session 1 |
• Ha, Seong-Kyu: •Lee, Ju-Won: Dissension |
11:30 – 11:45 |
Break |
|
11:45 – 12:45 |
Session 2 |
•Wakamatsu Tsukasa: The Reality of Discrimination against Locality and Urban Regenetration in Socially Disadvantaged Inner City Area: •Seo, Jong Gyun: An Approach to New Revitalization Works: the Case of Samsung Yeongju |
12:45 – 14:00 |
Lunch |
|
14:00 – 15:15 |
Session 3 |
Kuzunishi Risa: New Potential for Housing Aid for Domestic Violence •Meno Fumitake: Housing Provision Project for •Inada Nanami: Housing Assistance for the Single Elderly Poor and |
15:15 – 15:30 |
Break |
|
15:30 – 16:30 |
Session 4 |
•Park Se-Hoon: •Hirakawa Takaaki: Role of |
16:30 – 16:45 |
Break |
|
16:45 – 17:15 |
General Discussion |
|
17:15 – 18:00 |
Response to Questions |
|
18:00 |
Closing |
Speakers’ Profiles
(1) Korean Group
• Ha Seong-Kyu
(Director of Korean Center
for City and Environment Research(KOCER),
Vice-President of Chung-Ang University)
•Lee Ju-Won (Nanum–gwa–Mire(Division
and the Future))
•Seo Jong Gyun (Chief Researcher, Korean Urban Studies
Institute)
•Park Se-Hoon (Chief
Researcher, National Land Research Institute)
(2) Japanese Group
•Meno Fumitake (OCU-URP Post-Doctoral
Researcher)
•Wakamatsu Tsukasa (OCU-GCOE Special
Researcher)
•Kuzunishi Risa (OCU-GCOE Special
Researcher)
•Inada Nanami (OCU-GCOE Special Researcher)
•Hirakawa Takaaki (URP, RA)
III. Conference Format
– Japanese-Korean Simultaneous Translation
– 20 minutes each for presentations, 10 minutes for questions and
responses
IV. Written materials in both Japanese and
Korean translation will be distributed on the
day of
the conference
4. Field Trip
§We plan to visit locations related to ‘Poverty and Renewal’ within
Seoul.
§A venue will be provided for sharing the experiences of local
residents and aid workers.
Time |
Theme |
Place |
Host group |
Notes |
08:30 – 09:00 |
Movement to Yongsan: 10 min. by Subway from Chungmuro Station |
KOCER |
|
|
09:00 – 10:00 |
Evils of Redevelopment |
Site of the Yongsan Incident |
|
|
10:00 – 11:00 |
Movement to Guro District: 30 min. by subway |
|
|
|
11:00 – 12:30 |
The new poverty and migrant laborers (area where ethnic Koreans |
Guro District |
Undecided |
|
12:30 – 14:00 |
Lunch |
|
|
|
14:00 – 15:00 |
Movement to Poi-dong: 50 min. by subway |
|
|
|
15:00 – 16:30 |
Observation of vinyl house (squatter) district |
Poi-dong Countermeasures Committee |
Residents’ Organization |
|
16:30 – 17:30 |
Movement to Haengdang-dong: Approx. 1 hr. by subway and on foot |
|
|
|
17:30 – 19:00 |
Alternative of community-led development |
Haengdang-dong Residents’ Governing Center |
Nongol Credit Union (Community bank) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
19:00 – 20:30 |
Dinner |
|
|
|
20:30 – |
Closing |
|
|
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- Exchange Parties:
We plan to have parties for exchanges between participants after
the closing of the symposium and after the end of the field tour.
- Address all other questions to:
Supervisor
of the OCU-URP Seoul Sub-center: Lim Deok Young (Korean Urban Studies Institute Researcher)
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