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The purpose of this study is to demonstrate that the colonial duality of Kyungsung(Keijō) was a constructed reality. To achieve this purpose, two kinds of analyses were executed. In the first analysis, how and why the Japanese colonizer constructed the imaginative colonial duality of Kyungsung(Keijō) was revealed. Japanese imperial Othering was the epistemological origin of the colonial dual city and the Government General of Korea's ethnic discrimination policies were the materialization of the colonial dual city discourse. Among the GGK's policies, dual place naming was the most powerful spatial policy of the duality construction. As the second analysis, the population census was analyzed and the diversity and variability of inner structure of colonial Seoul were revealed. Newly designed inner city model of Kyungsung(Keijō) could detect the diversity of the city structure. Mixed area of Korean and Japanese and Chinese ghetto in Kyungsung(Keijō) could be revaluated by the new model.