... COMMUNITY OF STRANGERS: ITAEWON FROM AMERICANIZED GHETTO TO MULTICULTURAL SPACE KIM JI YOUN (M.Phil., Yonsei University, Korea) A THESIS SUBMITTED FOR THE DEGREE OF DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY OF ... Ghetto: the Impossibility of Community Related to boundaries, ghetto would be the most extreme case of defensive community However, for Bauman (2001), ghetto simply means “the impossibility of ... and cultural transformations of Itaewon from Americanized ghetto , which were significantly influenced by American occupation to space heralding the arrival of ‘multiculturalism’in an ethnically...