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It has been over 100 years since the concept of a park was introduced into Korea. The park meant a historical and cultural property when it was first introduced. Yet, we now plan a park only with present eyes that privilege usage and utility. On the other hand, the spatiality of a park is a concept based on usage and utility and it is changed and reproduced by social contexts. Moreover, the spatiality can be changed and distorted by the demands and claims of diverse constituencies and users. Therefore, one needs a systematic investigation about the changes of spatiality to plan a park with historical significance. This study analyzes the mechanism and accumulated spatialities that had driven the changes and accommodation of the Hyochang Park. The Hyochang-myo has had diverse spatialities. It was a royal burial ground in the Chosun dynasty and became a park during the Japanese colonial period. After the independence, it was recovered to an ancestral burial ground. Yet, since the 1980s, it has been again transformed into a cultural property and an ecological place. The planning and renovation of the Hyochang Park have been conducted mainly by the demands of interest groups or political powers, which usually involved the elimination of the previous legacy to establish a new one. Therefore, the past memories of the Hyochang Park have been constantly demolished. Although the name ‘Hyochang’, attributed to the place in the Chosun period, still remains, the memory of the ‘Hyochang-myo’ of the Chosun period is not there any more. Yet, it would not be right to choose only one spatial identity for the place when we make the future of the Hyochang Park. The preservation of it as a cultural property, a designation for a sanctuary, and the maintenance of a neighborhood park could all be a valid claim for its mixed identity. So, more researches on a variety of techniques and methods and that would fully recover the memories and t\he legacies of the park with a mixed identity should be performed.