Abstract
At present, it is almost impossible to see squatters in Seoul, Korea. Slum clearance was deployed and high-rise apartment complexes are now built on the cleared lands. In this article, we studied “formation and elimination” of a squatter in Korea. Especially, we focused on the fact that the process of clearing squatters was actually the process of “redevelopment” which in turn produced various social contradictions. Based on characteristics of Korean “redevelopment” and concrete case examples of “redevelopment”, we studied how people (low-income population) “live and work” and what situation they have been in after the redevelopment and further clarified the modern form of squatters in Korea.
