The Incheon International Airport Passenger Terminal is a popular public facility in Korea that accommodates about 100 million tourists per annum. Kim Jungsik focused on implementing the most Korean feeling into the design. The architect’s consideration of developing the project by using gardens and water, and borrowing traditional elements such as palaces and gates, were realized through the pursuit of a harmony between tradition and modernity that appear in the Chunchukwan, Dankook University Yulgok Memorial Library, and the National Museum of Korea. These contemplations and problem-solving techniques are important factors that constitute the architectural meaning of the Passenger Terminal. If such is the case, would not the curved shape reflecting natural elements and the tradition of Korea be a message that implies mobility due to flexible capital accumulation and dispersion in the age of neoliberalism?
