This English page is a companion overview of the current Korean working document. It does not yet translate every paragraph line by line, but it preserves the main corpus facts, research logic, and exhibition structure now shaping the public archive.
Current corpus facts
As of 2026-06-07, the live corpus contains 473 item pages.
2. Guided Walks through the U.S. Base and the City:3091. Original Record Files:1343. Kim's Historical Lens:30
The corpus remains image-heavy, but it is not governed by a single archival order.
Two archival orders coexist
The first order is administrative. In 1. Original Record Files, record groups such as RG 111, RG 127, RG 342, RG 80, and RG 338, together with source organizations, form the main structure of discovery.
The second order is curatorial. In 2. Guided Walks through the U.S. Base and the City and 3. Kim's Historical Lens, series paths, walk routes, public discussion, and present-day interpretation are more important than military record-group logic.
This means the archive must be read through both the production order of military records and the interpretive order of urban reading.
Exhibition structure
The exhibition is now structured in two levels:
/exhibition/as the entry page/exhibition/section-01/through/exhibition/section-07/as separate exhibition sections
The main body of the exhibition corresponds to sections 1 through 7, while 0. Prologue remains an opening layer.
Strong metadata axes
The most stable discovery axes at this stage are:
seriessourcesvenues
sources is especially useful for the original military record zone, while series and venues are especially effective in the curated walking corpus.
Main research direction
The archive now supports at least three strong questions:
- How was Yongsan recorded through the administrative gaze of military and state institutions?
- How do curated walk routes reinterpret Yongsan as urban history rather than only military history?
- How do exhibition structure and metadata discovery offer different ways of reading the same corpus?
Note on this English version
This English page is intentionally lightweight in Phase 2. It serves as a paired public guide for multilingual structure, while the Korean document remains the fuller working source at this stage.