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For people living in Busan, the identity of shoes and Busan is strongly established. The connection between Busan and shoes is always strongly mediated by ‘female workers.’ There has been little qualitative research on female workers in the Busan area. At the same time, the position of women in Busan's economic history/industrial history has been minimal or invisible. In this paper, I will name shoes female workers in the Busan as subjects of space and restore the various women's labor and their desires. Through this study, we aim to reveal the lives and memories of female workers who have been invisible in the region and actively intervene in local history. To achieve this purpose, I reconstructed the experiences and memories of female workers at a shoe factory in Busan from a life history perspective. The strong power of ‘gendering’ was primarily at work in the advancement of female workers into society. If the ‘leading role’ that connected gold and shoes was women, these women were the ones who produced Busan’s industrialized space (H. Lefebvre) and the ones who created the new landscape of the city. Also, this space and time is connected to the present. However, it was confirmed that they reconstructed their identity as workers by using practical strategies to become female workers. The work of engaging ‘female workers’ in the time and space that connects Shoes and Busan will be the work of constructing a local narrative that goes beyond the gender geography of distorted memories.