Lecture
What Does Cadaster Say? Digital Archives and Traces of Urban Inequality in South Korea
- Date
- Thursday 9 April 2026
- Time
- Series
- LIAS Lunch Talk Series
- Location
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Herta Mohr
Witte Singel 27A
2311 BG Leiden
Abstract
Land registries (or ‘cadasters’) are written records of changes in property’s boundary, ownership, and finance involved. As cadasters are increasingly digitalised, they open up possibilities to understand neighbourhood change of the past and present as well as social and financial relations involved in the change far-flung beyond the study area. This talk introduces a case study that uses cadasters and street view images to trace recent neighbourhood changes in Seoul, South Korea, with questions on urban inequality in mind. It invites colleagues across diverse fields to think with land, digital archives, and inequality.
About the speaker
Yoonai Han is a human geographer working on urban and digital studies with a focus on South Korea. She traces shifting forms of displacement at the intersection of class, gender, land, and technology.