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A Study on the Korea's First Apartment Before and After the Liberation - focused on 7 apartments in Seoul - Park, Cheol-Soo Associate Professor, University of Seoul This thesis is generated from the critical consciousness that there exists many different opinions and arguments on what is the first apartment of Korea, and that this topic should be rearranged based on a certain standard. In other words, it is to redefine the concept of the first apartment of Korea through a category of either before and after the Liberation, and by formulating the thesis based on the perspective and decisions employed in defining the very concept, while reinforcing it with additional documents that were not available in preceding studies or documentation. Moreover, this thesis is to contribute to the historical studies of Korean housing culture by reconfirming or correcting contradictory contents found in previous resources and by reinforcing additional facts to the preceding researches. This thesis can be summarized into two conclusions based on its background and purpose. First, a four-story residential building built with ferro-concrete in the 1930's, Yurim(儒林, Toyota 豊田)-Apartment located at Chungjeongno(忠正路) 3ga 250-6, Seoul, is the very first apartment of Korea before the liberation. This fact will still be a valid argument even after the unification in the future and this example also complies with the general term of apartment, a new residential type translated and disseminated by Japan during the Japanese invasion. Second, the first apartment after the liberation is the Jongam-Apartment located in Jongamdong(鐘岩洞) and built on November 1957 by Jungang Industry(中央産業). It is characterized by having living room, bedroom, kitchen and bathroom all furnished in a single floor and having a private porch per each household, which allowed an urban family to manage an independent life. The organizational structure of this example meets most of the 'apartment' requirements accommodated before the liberation and this apartment, whose 152 units were absorbed by Korea National Housing Corporation(大韓住宅營團) on July 31th 1958 as per Public Housing Management Report(復興住宅管理要領) issued by The National Health Institute, can be justly labeled as the first apartment of Korea after the liberation. This thesis examines diversity of records and documents in order to overcome the structural limitation of logical development which had been a problem in preceding researches due to the lack of confirmed data sources. This thesis is developed through establishing decision factors and view points related to the apartment typology of the period, but it is still overshadowed by limitation of not having enough historical documents to verify and confirm. Therefore I would like to position this work as an deductive thesis that can be sufficiently modified by any additional resources or new research that were not verifiable at this time. Keywords : Korea's First Apartment, Liberation, Seoul, Yurim(Toyota)-Apartment, Jongam-Apartment, Haengchon-Apartment