Reconstitution of Taeseong-dong, the Korean War Armistice and the Demilitarized Zone(DMZ) - Focusing on the oral history of Taeseong-dong resident-

Taeseong-dong is the only village that exists within the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) on the Korean Peninsula. Daeseong-dong Village was able to survive because the Military Armistice Commission (MAC) allowed residents to live and enter the demilitarized zone immediately after the Korean War armistice. The Joint Security Area (JSA) is located next to the east side of the village, and the Military Demarcation Line (MDL) has become a part of the residents’ farming and daily lives. Taeseong-dong, which faces North Korea ’dramatically’, was given the role of an exhibition hall as a symbol of the confrontation between the North and South Korean systems. In addition, Taeseong-dong is an area where both the South Korean government’s legal system and the UN Command’s regulations apply, so the village and its residents are under a double legal system. The village of Taeseong-dong, located in the Demilitarized Zone, is a symbol of the Korean Peninsula’s armistice system, and the reality and contradictions of the situation are directly linked to the lives of its residents.<br/> This article aims to reveal the history and significance of the Korean War and the Armistice through the oral history of a person who is still living in the Korean Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) more than 70 years after the war. In particular, I would like to focus on the survival and nature of the village before and after the armistice, the state of the military demarcation line (MDL), the management and operation of the closed and isolated village, and the lives and political issues of the residents. I will look at what constitutes and surrounds Taeseong-dong Village and how it was formed, and approach this from the perspective of the village residents. This will also help us understand the process of Taeseong-dong, a small village in Jangdan-gun, Gyeonggi-do, being reconfigured into a special and unique village within the DMZ through the war.