Gwanghwamun Square Analysis

There a lot of public squares around the world in which have experiences of historical , social and political developments that have shaped societies to what it is today through protests . Some recent cases, for instance , including the protest at the Tiananmen Square , Beijing (1989 ) , the Tahrir Square , Cairo (2011 ) , and the Taksim Square , Istanbul (2013 ) could the cases for the use of public squares that reflect the power of the public and socio-political atmosphere that each country had at that time . It can be also said that those phenomena would be examples that prove the symbolic nature of the public square highlighted by social and cultural events happened to the period of protests by participants. In the similar vein, Gwanghwamun Square can be one of the examples in which have faced a lot of
The phenomenon seems to have brought the distinctive change in the use of some public places, particularly Gwanghwamun Square, as the square has become the representative place for the peaceful place with the use of candlelight and cultural events as tools. This study will focus on the analysis of the relation between public squares and the social phenomenon which could be a sort of 'text' itself in discourse. This study will apply the method of Critical Discourse Analysis to explore the meaning of Heterotopias and its function, and to find ideology in Gwanghwamun Square. It will find the social ideology and implication hidden in the relation between power, ideology and social action which all could cause a conflict between the opposite social groups of people. That seems to contribute to reconstructing public places into 'another pace ' in the