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Stitching the 24-Hour City reveals the intense speed of garment production and everyday life in Dongdaemun, a lively market in Seoul, South Korea. Once the site of uprisings against oppressive working conditions in the 1970s and 1980s, Dongdaemun has now become iconic for its creative economy, nightlife, fast-fashion factories, and shopping plazas. Seo Young Park follows the work of people who witnessed and experienced the rapidly changing marketplace from the inside. Through this approach, Park examines the meanings and politics of work in one of the world's most vibrant and dynamic global urban marketplaces.Park brings readers into close contact with the garment designers, workers, and traders who sustain the extraordinary speed of fast-fashion production and circulation, as well as the labor activists who challenge it. Attending to their narratives and practices of work, Park argues that speed, rather than being a singular drive of acceleration, is an entanglement of uneven paces of life, labor, the market, and the city itself. Stitching the 24-Hour City exposes the under-studied experiences with Dongdaemun fast fashion, peeling back layers of temporal politics of labor and urban space to record the human source of the speed that characterizes the never-ending movement of the 24-hour city.

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Cornell University Press

Date de parution

15 juin 2021

EAN13

9781501754272

Langue

English

Poids de l'ouvrage

10 Mo

STITCHING THE 24-HOUR CITY

STITCHING THE24-HOURCITY Life, Labor, and the Problem of Speed in Seoul

SEO YOUNG PaRK

CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESSITHACA AND LONDON

All rights reserved. Except for brief quotations in a review, this book, or parts thereof, must not be reproduced in any form without permission in writing from the publisher. For information, address Cornell University Press, Sage House, 512 East State Street, Ithaca, New York 14850. Visit our website at cornellpress.cornell.edu.

First published 2021 by Cornell University Press

Library of Congress CataloginginPublication Data

Names: Park, Seo Young, 1979author. Title: Stitching the 24hour city : life, labor, and the problem of speed in Seoul / Seo Young Park. Description: Ithaca [New York] : Cornell University Press, 2021. | Includes bibliographical references and index. Identiﬁers: LCCN 2020043492 (print) | LCCN 2020043493 (ebook) | ISBN 9781501754265 (hardcover) | ISBN 9781501756115 (paperback) | ISBN 9781501754272 (pdf) | ISBN 9781501754289 (epub) Subjects: LCSH: Clothing workers—Korea (South)—Seoul—Social life and customs—21st century. | Readytowear clothing industry—Korea (South)— Seoul. | Markets—Social aspects—Korea (South)—Seoul. | Social ecology— Korea (South)—Seoul. | Tongdaemungu (Seoul, Korea)—Social conditions—21st century. Classiﬁcation: LCC HD8039.C62 K67 2021 (print) | LCC HD8039.C62 (ebook) | DDC 305.9/688095195—dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020043492 LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020043493

Cover photograph: Courtesy of Seo Young Park.

Contents

Prologue

Introduction

Par t 1AS EXPERIENCE SPEED 1. Affective Crowds and Making the 24Hour City 2. Intimate Networks 3. Passionate Imitation

Par t 2OF SPEED PROBLEMATIZATION 4. Redirecting the Future 5. Pacing the Flow

Conclusion

Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index

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STITCHING THE 24-HOUR CITY

PROLOGUE

1 Oksun was sitting in front of a sewing machine, carefully stitching a woman’s jacket. It was a fashionable design that fused Korean traditional fabric patterns with a Westernstyle silhouette and was to be used as a sample for students to rep licate in an advanced sewing class that Oksun was teaching at a nonproﬁt organ 2 ization, MANI. MANI’s mission was to encourage slowpaced, artisanal approaches 3 to garment production and ultimately help garment workers in Dongdaemun market to achieve better working conditions for their labor. Oksun was ﬁftysix years old. It was forty years ago when she had begun her work in Dongdaemun in the heart of Seoul. Since then, she had seen Dongdae mun go through many transformations and become a highspeed, fastfashion marketplace. The political motivations behind MANI’s work were not new, as Dongdaemun market had a long history of labor activism extending back many years to when highspeed mass manufacturing ﬁrst became a hallmark of its pro duction. Once a symbol of manual labor and labor struggles from the 1960s and 1980s, the market’s speedy production, in which each garment only requires roughly two days to evolve from concept to ﬁnished product, has turned Dong daemun into a transnationally popular urban cluster of garment factories, wholesalers,andretailmalls.Itsceaselesspaceofproductivity,whichextendswellinto the night, makes Dongdaemun one of Seoul’s most potent symbols of the 24hour city. The class that Oksun was teaching was directed at seamstresses who were ac customed to working with machines. The class was intended to help them de velop more sophisticated, intricate handstitching techniques and learn toslow

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