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Seoul was located at the center of Joseon before the modern age, and it was positioned amid dynamics with each region such as Pyeongyang(平壤), Buyeo (夫餘) and Gyeongju(慶州), etc. However, as the colonial Joseon is included as a region of imperial Japan since the modern age, Keijo(京城), which was the center of colonial Joseon, was also positioned as a regional city of Japan. At the time, the space sense and boundary awareness on a region exceeding a national unit called Joseon should be accompanied so that the central Keijo is recognized as a region. The period that the space sense and boundary awareness rapidly increased in the modern Korea was since 1930s that the expansion of imperial Japan to the East Asia really started, and amid a process that each country of the East Asia is geopolitically reorganized according to the foreign expansion of imperial Japan since the Manchurian Incident(滿洲事變), the space sense and boundary awareness became to be located under the imperial order. Especially, Keijo was a regional city of the Empire having Tokyo as the center as well as had dual phases as the center leading improvement and modernization in relations with other regions inside Joseon. In a process that Japan tried to form the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere (大東亞共榮圈), Keijo was also recognized and represented inside a world system exceeding the Empire instead of a region of imperial Japan. The response of each subject surrounding a cultural geopolitical phase of Keijo showed various shapes while being linked to the East Asia situation. In short, while the modern city called Keijo experiences a duplicated phase called the center, a region and a colony, it functioned as a place of cultural geopolitical competition that the desire of a subject is projected and continuously relocated in a layer different from each other while Joseon people and Japan people interacts.