During the 1950s, the North Koreans rebuilt their capital—Pyongyang—as a modern city under the principle of Soviet urban design. One North Korean architect, Kim Jung-hee, has been widely credited since the late 1980s as the master architect of the General Plan of the city’s reconstruction. While Kim Jung-hee played a crucial role in its reconstruction, his heroic image as the founding architect of Pyongyang is considerably attributed to North Korea’s mythical narratives rather than his historical activities. This paper argues that Pyongyang’s postwar urban design was not a work made by a single actor, Kim Jung-hee; rather, it was a long-term collaborative project in which a team of North Korean architects and Soviet technical advisors took their respective roles. Beginning in the late 1980s, North Korea, which had been struggling with economic decline and an increasing sense of lagging behind in its rivalry with its Southern counterpart, used heroic narratives during the 1950s’ postwar reconstruction period as an important propaganda tool for their regime. In this mythical narrative of Pyongyang’s reconstruction, massive economic and technical aid from other communist countries has often disappeared, and the memory of the architects who contributed greatly to the reconstruction but later purged in North Korea have also completely vanished. Kim Jung-hee, meanwhile, remained in this epic as the founding architect who rebuilt the city in faithful accordance with the leadership of Kim Il Sung.

Abstract
 1. 서 론
 2. 연구 방법
 3. 김정희와 그의 1953년 작 도시건설
 4. 평양시의 재건 계획
  4-1. 1951년 평양시 재건 총 계획도
  4-2. 1952년 평양시 재건 총 계획도
  4-3. 휴전후의 평양시 도시 계획
 5. 평양의 도시 계획과 소련의 기술지원
 6. 신화속의 김정희
 7. 맺음말
 참고문헌

• 박동민(서울대학교 규장각 한국학연구원 객원연구원) | Park, Dongmin Corresponding Author