After graduating from Kyoto University of Technology and Textile in 1999, before and after returning to Korea, I collaborated with Dr. Sunamoto of Kobe Women's University, whom I met in the field of residential area research such as the Japan Architectural Association. Dr. Sunamoto started research on cities and architecture in Korea around 2004 and referred to my published research. I have had more opportunities to discuss at academic societies with Dr. Sunamoto than with other researchers, and we conducted joint field surveys for about 20 years. He reached out to me as he launched a new international joint research project. At that time, we initiated a joint research project focusing on a comparative study between Japan and South Korea regarding cities and housing seized during the occupation period.

There were three plans to stay during the short 59-day stay: 1. Experience the context of a city in Hyogo, which is also known as a city of civil engineering and sea 2. Tour of modern architecture in Hyogo 3. Revitalize towns created by the private sector and the government. In particular, the problem of vacant houses, the declining population due to the declining birthrate, and the attempt to solve an aging society jointly by the public and private sectors were not only seen, but also asked a junior who runs a construction office in Hyogo to visit the site. On October 5th, I was able to experience modern buildings that were renovated using the characteristics of the area, the suburban residential area of Kobe, and the bison gaga, a work by a half-man carpenter that I recently did in Kobe. First of all, the "Koike Processing Plant" visit to the Koike Koike Processing Plant is a Hyogo Canal located south of JR Hyogo Station. After World War II, the canal was used as an imported wood storage area, and it is said that there were many village factories that made a living out of wood at that time. It is said that sawmills lined up in an area called timber town adjacent to the canal, but only one sawmills remained open and all the rest were closed. The Koike Koike processing plant was one of the town factories involved in timber. The town factory, which has seen the rise and fall of a wood town, can be used for the next generation who want to live in woodworking? If a new relationship between the factory and the town is created, it will be able to tell the story of the wood town to future generations. I visited Masaaki Takeuchi of the Uzlab body chart, the designer of the factory, and listened to the story and visited nearby facilities. In Hyogo, it was an opportunity for people in their 40s and 50s to learn the process of building, food, gardening, wood, canal, canal fields, cultivating and enjoying food, and how local residents would make use of the ruined city. The activities of the Canal House Horticulture Department and the Open Farm were a complex citizen's activities beyond mere fields, urban farms, and town development activities, so I wanted to take this experience as an opportunity to start exchanges. I was going to participate in Kobe Gourmet Discovery, which was held at Higashi amusement park from November 2nd to 3rd, but unfortunately it rained and I still felt very disappointed that I couldn't participate because I was returning home.

I was trying to make good use of my short time to prepare for my stay. Since the purpose of the study was <International Comparison of Cities and Housing Acquired during the Occupation period> I wanted to hold a study group, study group, and lecture to learn about the situation in Japan and Korea, so I was able to study the residential culture of both countries from the beginning of my stay. I would like to thank the students who concentrated on my Japanese class, which I can never say is good, and who asked me questions, which I don't know if it seemed serious because I prepared in a hurry in a short period of time. Next, above all, I was able to guide you through the Japanese Architectural History Society, and I was able to have a wonderful study group with people who came from Hokkaido to listen to the lecture. It is a great honor, a rewarding and promising achievement in the future. My announcement was "Disposal of enemy-produced houses in South Korea after World War II ~ The whereabouts of Yeonhui-so residential areas in Seoul". According to the announcement, 210,000 pyeong of Yeonhui-so residential land, which was developed in 1934 by Yeonhui-so Land Co., Ltd. (CEO: Bunkichi Tobishima), was sold in 1937, but due to the lack of funds and materials in the war zone, the war ended. After that, some of the land and housing in Yeonhui-so residential areas, which became enemy property, will be under the control of the (U.S.) Military Administration's Enemy Trust Office and the Korea Central Trust Office. After the Act on the Disposal of Attributed Property was enacted on December 19, 1949, land, which is treated as attributed property, was incorporated into a zoning area and paid down in various ways, including the construction of Yeondan housing and company housing. It was to reveal the whereabouts of Yeonhui-so residential area, which lasted for about 50 years from the establishment of the company in 1933, to the development and sale, the disposal of enemy houses, and the disposal of imputed property. Through this announcement, I was able to exchange opinions with the researchers who gathered, and I was praised for the fact that more research projects have sprouted up in the future. I think this is a great achievement for us researchers, and I intend to publish the results as research papers at academic conferences in the future.