{"id":3473,"date":"2013-07-24T12:56:09","date_gmt":"2013-07-24T12:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/?p=3473"},"modified":"2013-07-24T12:56:09","modified_gmt":"2013-07-24T12:56:09","slug":"gangnams-legendary-garosugil-and-the-post-causality-consumer-culture-of-seoul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/2013\/07\/24\/gangnams-legendary-garosugil-and-the-post-causality-consumer-culture-of-seoul\/","title":{"rendered":"Gangnam&#8217;s legendary &#8220;Garosugil&#8221; and the post-causality consumer culture of Seoul"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The other evening, I had a chance to walk down Gangnam&#8217;s legendary &#8220;Garosugil,&#8221; or tree-lined boulevard, in the Sinsa District. It is quite a scene. Perhaps reminiscent of Harujuku at its height, but more frenetic and perhaps more creative, if less classy.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3474\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3474\" style=\"width: 620px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/img_6187.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3474\" alt=\"The Handbag Museum in Garosugil is dedicated to every form of handbag. There is a program in the basement that allows you to design your own. \" src=\"http:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/img_6187.jpg\" width=\"630\" height=\"945\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3474\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Handbag Museum in Garosugil is dedicated to every form of handbag. There is a program in the basement that allows you to design your own.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3475\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3475\" style=\"width: 620px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/img_6206.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3475\" alt=\"The cultural images presented in this shop suggests an American consumer culture set loose in an unfamiliar ecosystem. \" src=\"http:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/img_6206.jpg\" width=\"630\" height=\"420\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3475\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The cultural images presented in this shop suggests an American consumer culture set loose in an unfamiliar ecosystem.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>This disjointed video that is constantly played at one of the luxury stores suggest a total breakdown in causality in this cultural environment.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=kF7lDo9rSr4\">video<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The other evening, I had a chance to walk down Gangnam&#8217;s legendary &#8220;Garosugil,&#8221; or tree-lined boulevard, in the Sinsa District. It is quite a scene. Perhaps reminiscent of Harujuku at its height, but more frenetic and perhaps more creative, if less classy. This disjointed video that is constantly played at one of the luxury stores &#8230; <a title=\"Gangnam&#8217;s legendary &#8220;Garosugil&#8221; and the post-causality consumer culture of Seoul\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/2013\/07\/24\/gangnams-legendary-garosugil-and-the-post-causality-consumer-culture-of-seoul\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Gangnam&#8217;s legendary &#8220;Garosugil&#8221; and the post-causality consumer culture of Seoul\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9296425,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","_crdt_document":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[786,90141],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-essays","category-seoul"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9296425"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3473"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3473\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}