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The purpose of this paper is to review the interactions of various actors in the process of carrying out a recontextualized traditional festival of Seongeup Folk Village. In this study, we examine the cultural practices of villagers in the traditional festivals which establish their lives independently of the traditions defined by the state. Through the festival, the history of the folk village is “rewritten” with the memories of the villagers, by which the villagers can examine the present. In this paper, we attempt to cross the boundaries between human and non-human objects based upon ontological transformation. Based on the theory that expands the concept of actors (Latour 1988, 2005), we made the process of dismantling the discourse of the ‘Invention of Tradition’ as a major goal of the research. To this end, the four stages of the translation of actor-networks are applied as a framework of analysis to track the backgrounds and network formation relations between the actors, and finally, the black box which connects the actors is dismantled to open the network. As a result, we reveal that the recontextualized traditional festival is a medium for the villagers to constantly connect traditions and it is the result of their choice between nationalism and tourism development through cultural tourism commercialization.

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