In modern city life, day and night have been losing their borders in meaning. As world cities have opened a new period of nightscape culture with a cutting-edge technology of producing an innovative illumination, features of urban life have been essentially changed by nightly shopping, active use of leisure, etc.
Gradually increasing weight in nocturnal life requires us to consider it a new area of culture, convincing that it is time to produce and manage day and night landscapes.
Many cities home and abroad are constantly carrying out improvements on their day and night landscapes, whose cases of excellent illumination are easily accessible by our people with more opportunities to visit cities overseas in this time of globalization. Since such an experience will bring on desire for enhancing the nightscape at home, this should be met by a relevant on-going project to meet the needs of our citizens.
Hadong-gun, though possessed of diverse historical and cultural tourist attractions based on a storied long history and wonderful landscape, has much room for improvement in providing elements of nightly sightseeing for tourists from home and abroad. So there must be an endeavor to build an image of the marine, sightseeing and resort city differentiated from others by developing its own cultural, scenic potential elements into tourist attractions.
As the hub of sightseeing project for the south coast, Hadong-gun is deemed necessary to improve its urban image in corresponding to political and economic changes. Not just in its functional aspects but aesthetic, too, Hadong needs to establish its identity by enhancing its nightly image through nightscape illumination as well as improving urban facilities, organizing advertisements in the street, etc.
Therefore, this study is intended to propose a vision and strategy that can produce and manage the nightscape of Hadong-gun systematically on a long-term basis. The basic concept includes: 1) construction of a city of concord by developing the coexisting nightscape content that provides the symbolism of the past, present and future of Hadong 2) construction of nightscape infrastructure that seeks for an around-the-clock-lifestyle sightseeing city for prolonged stay and smooth nightly economic activities 3) increase in Hadong's historic, cultural and symbolic natures, usability, stability, etc. by producing landscape illumination for a newly enhanced city image 4) effects of economic synergy via creating impressive culture of lights and nightscape by means of friendly urban landscape and systematic illumination as well as smooth nightly economic activities and increasing sojourn-oriented tourists.