The future is how: Urbanising the Korean peninsula for imagining post-fossil cities in East Asia

In Maarten Hajer and his colleagues' insightful papers (Hajer & Pelzer, 2018, Energy Research and Social Science, 44, 222; Hajer & Versteeg, 2019, Territory, Politics, Governance, 7, 122) and the following sharp commentaries, we confirmed that critical scholars in the field of urban studies and energy research recognise that “the future is now” for imagining post-fossil cities and dismantling the current unsustainable energy regime gobbling up fossil fuels. This commentary briefly shows an example of a more practical and concrete illusion that includes how to transform existing, unsustainable, fossil fuel-based urbanisation into a more sustainable, post-fossil future in the spatial context of East Asia, at a less abstract level. Ultimately, it emphasises that the spectre of Henry Lefebvre should be haunting more regions outside of the First World.