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Citizens in Gyeongseong(Seoul) had a ambivalence of expectation and anxiety in the flowering stage of modern civilization. Especially their dual attitude was more clear to trains and trams than others. It was a kind of jouissance that paid some suffering for pleasure. This ambivalence is closely connected with esthetic attitude of sublimity. The sublime object is a great power of civilization such as speed of train. Then, ambivalent paradox of sublimity is to be a important clue that can explain what is Korean(Chosun) distinctive of colonial modernization. Repeating of urban experience in everyday life weakens sublime intense of citizens. In that, there was attached national other-awareness, new urban civilization is not ours. It symbolized imperial power. However its changed sublime object from power of civilization to nation-state ideology. It was formed into ideological sublimity of subject, which against of invasion of empires. This sublime ideology was made by ambivalent psychological process to receive positive effects of civilization, while it also reject imperial power.